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How intense are your daydreams?
Mine can sometimes be so intense that if I were to cry in one of the daydreams and feel an emotion, I might actually cry in real life and feel like I feel exactly like I feel in the daydream.
P.S: Didn't know where exactly to put this, not paranormal, not really about dreams, not really off-topic so sorry if I put it in the wrong place ^_^
i once had a daydream/fantasy about my best friend dying. i ended up crying for hours over it.
My daydreams are very intense.. at times it can feel as though I'm living a totally different life.
Aren't daydreams totally controllable? Are you talking about the daydream in which you visualize stuff while staring out to space or actually taking a nap and such?
Daydreams in which you visualize stuff while staring out into spaceQuote:
Originally posted by nightowl
Aren't daydreams totally controllable? Are you talking about the daydream in which you visualize stuff while staring out to space or actually taking a nap and such?
My daydreams are insane. They're so detailed that I could go back into them and tell you what time it was in my daydream.
Too bad my actual dreams aren't as detailed and vivid. :?
Depends on what I'm daydreaming about. They can be very intence if it's some kind of fantasy adventure or something. Other times they are just to keep me busy during math :roll: , not too intense.
Extremely intense, I'm a HUGE daydreamer. It's not so good when I'm at work and my boss is saying stuff that I should be listening to. I absolutley can't control it. It's kind of a problem. I let people at work think I have a really bad memory, but I don't care about my job enough or what anyone I work with is saying, so most of the time I'm just completely off in another world.
Wow, it sounds really bad when I read what I just wrote.
I haven't daydreamed since I finished off highschool, but nowadays when my mind wonders I feel like I am reliving it and sometimes end up talking to myself... but it doesn't last very long as I catch it right away....eh....ahem
I almost cried cause of a daydream... I imagined my parents being shipped away and never to be seen again.
I think we all do that. Start thinking about the horrible things that could happen to your loved ones and then before you know it, you're crying like it actually happened.Quote:
Originally posted by Beef Jerky
I almost cried cause of a daydream... I imagined my parents being shipped away and never to be seen again.
I think it's pretty normal. Kinda like a way of preparing ourselves for things. You have to delve into that stuff once in a while, life isn't all rainbows and sunshine. Better to practice mourning in private then be completely shocked when something does happen and you've never even entertained the possibility of it.
Wow, I never "daydream". I thought you meant naps during the day. Those dreams are pretty good usually. But I guess now that I think about it, I have never just stared out into space to daydream. I only do that if I am trying to remember something.... Never any emotion attached to it.
Sounds like I may be missing out on something here.
What exactly is a daydream? Like a nap, or just 'dozing off', still a bit in the phisical world?
Anyhow, sometimes if you just stare at stuff they start to move a bit. Like waving. Or light changes. It's just the nerves getting raped or something.
Never rly daydreamed.
I've had emotions from daydreams before, and on ocasion I've imagined being punched then actually felt as if I'd been punched. I have a very vivid imagination too, although it can be hard to controll sometimes. Sometimes I have what seems almost like an actual dream and I lose control of it even though I'm definetly still awake.
So I'd say thats quite intense
A daydream is a "dreamlike fantasy" that you have while awake.Quote:
Originally posted by Neruo
What exactly is a daydream? Like a nap, or just 'dozing off', still a bit in the phisical world?
For example: If you're bored and you just imagine yourself somewhere else doing something else
(perhaps you're not even "you" in your daydream).
I can't believe you people don't know what daydreams are and you never do it. I'm in complete shock. I can't even fathom the idea. Is your life super jam packed that you don't have time for that or what? Like, don't you ever daydream about stuff like the future or someone you have the hots for? Or sometimes what ridiculous things you'd love to do in the most inappropiate places? I used to sit in church with my mom when I was younger and just be lost for that hour in another world, or I'd be thinking of something stupid to do like run up to the priest as he's in the middle of reading from the bible and plant a huge kiss on his face and then just run out the door. You MUST do stuff like that.
LMFAO, I know just what you mean, Kichu. I'm always daydreaming, and I get really into them sometimes. I'll just be sitting there, then I'll start moving as if I were in the daydream until I realize I look really odd dancing with myself. . .
^ ^ ^ Exactly!
Same here. Luckily I'm usually alone when I do daydream.Quote:
Originally posted by Tattoo
when my mind wonders I feel like I am reliving it and sometimes end up talking to myself... but it doesn't last very long as I catch it right away....eh....ahem
I'm not... :oops: ...Usually I'm in class. And my daydreams aren't normally random, they're continuations on past daydreams. Occasionally they'll be daydreams of me dodging bullets, or waltzing around in the middle of class, and that's when I start to get weird. I'll start to sort of dance around in my seat, and rock back and forth to music that only I can hear, or start miming dramatic sword fights with my pencil. Once I accidentally poked the kid in front of me with my pencil during math while I was imagining a particularly interesting duel. He was a little mad...
ROFLMFAO That is so crazy. When i daydream i can be preaty intence but not that intence. :roll:Quote:
Originally posted by Tsen
I'm not... :oops: ...Usually I'm in class. And my daydreams aren't normally random, they're continuations on past daydreams. Occasionally they'll be daydreams of me dodging bullets, or waltzing around in the middle of class, and that's when I start to get weird. I'll start to sort of dance around in my seat, and rock back and forth to music that only I can hear, or start miming dramatic sword fights with my pencil. Once I accidentally poked the kid in front of me with my pencil during math while I was imagining a particularly interesting duel. He was a little mad...
You people are confusing me, do you guys mean day dream as in spacing out into some "dream-like" state or do you mean "thinking of stuff"? cause I "think of stuff" a lot, but I dont space out in the middle of anything, (especially a conversation with someone, that'd be awkward). Most of the time, i'd think of random stuff in class and i'll admit its the craziest and stupidest things ever, but when i do space out, i dont think of anything. I have too much time to daydream cause lectures are boring... :?
:lol: I often mime out sword fights with pens, and start drumming on the desk and stuff.Quote:
Originally posted by Tsen
I'm not... * :oops: * ...Usually I'm in class. *And my daydreams aren't normally random, they're continuations on past daydreams. *Occasionally they'll be daydreams of me dodging bullets, or waltzing around in the middle of class, and that's when I start to get weird. *I'll start to sort of dance around in my seat, and rock back and forth to music that only I can hear, or start miming dramatic sword fights with my pencil. *Once I accidentally poked the kid in front of me with my pencil during math while I was imagining a particularly interesting duel. *He was a little mad...
Hmm. Well, when I daydream (imagine myself doing stuff), I don't usually actually act them out (but I may make some hand movements if I get too excited or mad in the daydream). I do sometimes accidentally daydream while I intend to do something else, though. However, I completely control the content--I have to make everything up that happens, and nothing surprises me in them, unless I pretend to be surprised. It might be interesting if I could find a way to make unexpected, unpredictable things happen in them.
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Originally posted by danbarber
:lol: I often mime out sword fights with pens, and start drumming on the desk and stuff.
I've acted out on rare occasions. Especially the drumming thing when I conjur up some music to accompany my daydreams.
And once in a great while, I've started humming the tunes. A couple of times I burst into actual singing, much to my family's amusement.
This got me wondering if people who sleep talk or walk are more likely to act out their daydreams too? I sleep talk often, and have sleep walked a few times (that I know of). Maybe has something to do with the outbursts during my daydreams too?
My daydreams are not really any intense. It's like watching TV. It's pretty good graphics in them, but when I try to control things it become unstable immediately, causing me to wake up.
My daydreams are odd. I don't really pay much attention to them. They happen to me when i think of something, and suddenly I'm out in the dream world lol...I am so into it i completely forget that I'm in a room and my entire vision of the room is gone and i cant feel the floor beneath me lol
I tend to just zone-out. Normally for some reason someone will be talking and my train of thought will focus on a particular idea or concept and will run with it in whatever direction it so desires.
As someone was saying, it's often when I'm in a conversation with someone. It's kind of funny, though, because I'll say "uh-huh" and nod in just the right places but then I'll come back to reality and have no idea what the person just said. I've even zoned out while I'm talking. I hate that because then I don't know what I've just said or how much sense it's really made, and when I catch myself I have to improvise so that no one will know.
As for how intense my daydreams can be, I can easily, easily get to the point where I don't really see where I'm at. The world is in my head and I'm just a bystandard. Occasionally the imagery almost seems visible, but usually it consists of internal dialogue running whereve it wants to go. It's often when I think of a character from a movie or show or one of my books, but I've gotten (ugh, I hate that word but I can't think of the right one) some good ideas from that.
I have control over my day-dreams, they appear as I command. (not like lucid dreaming tutorials people keep giving here: DAYDREAM APPEAR!!!!, or else my class would freak out. lol).
But If I want to have a daydream, I can get one instantly.
if I don't, I don't.
Like that, I also regulate the intensity of it.
But just like you cry at a VERY intense daydream.
I can also have that at just a fake thought (let's just say you think about things that aren't even true and you know that, but you can still make it have heavy emotional impact).
And I think that's HARDER to do, than to day-dream it.
Daydreaming is just like fantasising, right?
Yeah I guess I do that all the time. I used to do it allways when I was lying in bed. Now I just have to 'clear my mind' and that stuff :P
Hah, that's hilarious Ame! Just hope you said/nodded the right things at the right time, and pray they don't ask an awkward question later that you don't know the answer to 'cuz you were zoned out...
i find my daydreams are much more verbal than visual. i seem to recall it wasn't always this way though, and when i was younger i would experience more prototypical visuals.
my ability to visualize on the whole seems to have fled me recently. its actually quite frustrating, as i've been attempting visualization exercises :|
I've worried about that sometimes. Also, sometimes I smile or laugh in response to what people say. I have different kinds of smiles laughs, as everyone does, but I wonder, sometimes, if I do the wrong one at the wrong time. That could be embarassing.Quote:
Originally posted by Tsen
Hah, that's hilarious Ame! Just hope you said/nodded the right things at the right time, and pray they don't ask an awkward question later that you don't know the answer to 'cuz you were zoned out...
Heheh... yeah, I daydream all the time... usually, I have one daydream idea, and over the next couple of days, I'll "rehash" it until I get it how I like it, so I can dream the whole thing again.Quote:
Originally posted by Amethyst Star
I tend to just zone-out. Normally for some reason someone will be talking and my train of thought will focus on a particular idea or concept and will run with it in whatever direction it so desires.
As someone was saying, it's often when I'm in a conversation with someone. It's kind of funny, though, because I'll say "uh-huh" and nod in just the right places but then I'll come back to reality and have no idea what the person just said. I've even zoned out while I'm talking. I hate that because then I don't know what I've just said or how much sense it's really made, and when I catch myself I have to improvise so that no one will know.
As for how intense my daydreams can be, I can easily, easily get to the point where I don't really see where I'm at. The world is in my head and I'm just a bystandard. Occasionally the imagery almost seems visible, but usually it consists of internal dialogue running whereve it wants to go. It's often when I think of a character from a movie or show or one of my books, but I've gotten (ugh, I hate that word but I can't think of the right one) some good ideas from that.
Usually I daydream on the way to university to my iPod music. This sometimes causes problems, cos I'll be staring off into space, not watching where I'm walking, and I'll nearly push somebody over or shoulder them off the footpath, not because I'm mean or evil, but just cos outside my head, with my theme-songed daydream, I ain't got a clue what's going on, and I don't notice they're walking past me.
I've realised I've gotta be REALLY careful at crossings too, cos sometimes I'm daydreaming away, and I almost forget to stop and instead nearly walk over the road...
Hehehehe... yeah, my day-dreams are a bit of a hazard... but I like 'em. Usuallly I daydream about sci-fi or fantasy related stuff. Though every now and then, if a nice lady walks by, I'll make a "snapshot" in my mind of her... nothing dirty, I swear! :oops: I had a fairly young lecturer once, very pretty lady, though perhaps a bit too old for me... I think she was early thirties, not sure... suffice it to say, I kinda didn't end up writing many notes in class. Got a B- for that paper. Ugh. That's frakking awful for me.
Anyway... I'm rambling... :oops: I'm gonna go sit in a corner and be embarassed now.
Yeah, I have intense daydreams. I love daydreams, and I don't think there's a day in which I could have lived without them. I daydream in the time I don't have anything to do, and it really passes the time.
my daydreams are similar to real dreams, only without sound. I can see and move but cant hear.
my daydreams just involve train of thought.
OMG! are you serious? My daydreams are just thought! I don't actually 'leave' this world! It's like a thought way in the back of my head. All of my senses are in the realy world... I'm mising out on this??? :cry: How do I do it?!??!!Quote:
Originally posted by xcrissxcrossx
my daydreams are similar to real dreams, only without sound. I can see and move but cant hear.
I have no idea what my friend is talking about when he mentions daydreams being intense. When I daydream I am always comletely aware of my real body and surroundings, it's no different than thinking about something.
I can get completely wrapped up in them. My eyes just stare at a distant place as they gaze over to the side. My brother once took a picture of me while I was "cloned out" (zoned out). Like I said, I seem to get swallowed by the dream world at times. I have been thrown by an explosion during a daydream and vicariously felt the acceleration. I've actually talked with DCs during a daydream...unless they are DDCs :).
I've been known to fall asleep with my eyes open, then dream whilst half visualizing the real world. Is that considered a daydream. Other than that, I get really zoned out when I daydream.
This may not be relevant to what you do, but I'll either relive past or make up future conversations in my head, and sometimes I'll get so into them that I'll begin mouthing the words or even saying them out loud. I have to become aware of it before anyone walks in the room so they don't think I'm crazy :PQuote:
Originally posted by Tattoo
I haven't daydreamed since I finished off highschool, but nowadays when my mind wonders I feel like I am reliving it and sometimes end up talking to myself... *but it doesn't last very long as I catch it right away....eh....ahem
I just completely zone out until i think about something that brings me back to reality.
It feels like i'd been asleep for a few minutes. hahah.
my dreams are not to intense I either picture myself being really famous or being with a hottie. hahah :D
I lost a half hour of the SATs due to day dreaming. I had to sneak back to the section repeatedly when i finished other ones early. Heh, yeah I had this chill fantasy in my head about these three pirates and their adventures, my SATs were a mess, didn't do half bad though.
I day dream a lot, probably far too much. Mostly I just imagine myself as somebody in a computer game and react to the various situations I find myself in but I have a nasty habit of using daydreams as wish fulfillment. The best (worst) example of this is when I was in love with my friends wife :shakehead2: , I used to unintentionally imagine what our life together could be like and although the actual day dream made me extremely happy, when I returned from this delusion I got very depressed.
I'm over her now though. :o :D
I'm a big fan of daydreaming. Most of the time, it's not too intense. Just mind wandering, pretty hazy, pretty changeable. Sometimes they'll freak me out though. 'Wake up' with a gasp and stuff.