Daydreaming: C or D?

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I used to spend an incredible amount of time daydreaming; it was one of the few things that made school bearable.

Does it fade away completely as you become a busy adult? Or does it become more 'realistic' as you become older.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Too many spreadsheets due to answer this with any depth.

― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Classic when you're mentally rehearsing something you're actually going to do. Retrospectively dud otherwise.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

Classic of course.

The only time that it's a Dud is when you fall into that most dangerous of daydreams at work: What is the Most Inappropriate Thing I could Say/Do Right Now?

That daydream usually ends in me laughing to myself out of nowhere like a lunatic.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I do this without even realizing it. Constantly. It is delightful.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

The day I stop daydreaming is the day I actually give up and throw myself in front of the train.

It is the mind's release valve.

― Fire and Worms (kate), Monday, 5 February 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

dud when it happens during a conversation and you realize you didnt get anything he/she said.
and now it's your turn to response...
(aka ADHD)
otherwise - classic

― Nation Grace (emekars), Monday, 5 February 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

No, the only time I really don't like it is when it happens when I'm reading, and I realise that I've not taken in anything of the past five pages and the Angevin Empire is suddenly at war with France and I've no idea how they got there and have to go back and re-read.

― Fire and Worms (kate), Monday, 5 February 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

i did love daydreaming when i was little, but i don't do it so much these days. i think my adult version of daydreaming is browsing through books in the bookshop or cds in the record shop. recently i realised i spend probably 75% of my lunchbreaks in bookshops. in one way i'd be better off just taking one book to a park or something. but i love my bookshop time.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 5 February 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

We had an early bedtime as kids, which left me hours of wakefulness to make up elaborate stories in which I could fly and roller-skate expertly at top speed and there were laser-gun fights a la GI Joe and all kinds of Amazonian exploits. And magic. And often I'd fall asleep while still spinning tales and when my subconscious took over it'd get even more inexplicable and weird and that would get all mixed up with my memories until I was convinced, for a while, that there was a trapdoor in our pantry, inside the bottom cupboards. I didn't remember HOW I knew, but I was certain, and avoided them for...maybe a year or two? I can't remember very clearly, it seemed like more of a feeling than a concrete memory. Also partly based on Momma having read me The House with the Clock in its Walls when I was 4.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Daydreaming = classic.

Though, these days it involves more worst case scenario-ing, than back in the day.

I remember spending one lunch time sat in this cube thing that was part of a climbing frame, just reading the instructions to a lego truck, and being totally immersed. I was about 6 at the time.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Most of the time I dwell in a state of unreality, where I have amazing superpowers. And I am 50 years old.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

I've played the 'pretend you have the ability to stop time' game far too many times when I'm falling to sleep or putting off getting up.

It is great and if I ever get that power I am going to be so prepared and have the best house with all the best stuff and amazing adventures.

― acidmouth (acidmouth), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

Telekinesis is my daydream superpower of choice. Except I rarely imagine myself using it to save the world or become a master criminal or anything - just for getting the remote control from the other side of the room and other banal scenarios.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

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