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Do you daydream?

  • 30-09-2010 9:20pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭WaltKowalski


    Do you daydream?

    I do - sometimes I think excessively!
    I imagine a more fun, better life for myself.

    Am I cuckoo?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Yes, you're clearly bat shít crazy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭WaltKowalski


    Oh well! I'm not going to change now!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,419 ✭✭✭✭jokettle


    I'm told I live in my own head; I think that's a nice way of saying I daydream too much! I daydream about my goals for the future, be it getting a place on my ideal course or what way I'd like to decorate my house. But I also daydream about things that could probably never happen, like what I'd say if I met someone I idolise or how I'd react in certain situations.

    I don't know; maybe people would prefer if we talked about these things out loud instead of keeping them to ourselves, but personally I tend to internalise a lot in my life. I think daydreaming is a good manifestation of that.

    I tend to wander off (mentally speaking!) at least 3-4 times a day. It's a wonder I get any work done at all...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 surdah


    I daydream all the time too. It is a way you can have all the things you think you want but with none of the risks. That guy you like no matter how impossible in real life, you can have in your day dreams. Sometimes visualising things you would like to happen actually helps to make them happen in real life, at least it has happened to me, I remember once really visualising getting this job I really really wanted and it happened in real life almost exactly like in my daydream so I think they serve a very useful purpose at times.:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    I daydream relentlessly, constantly.

    About anything really, what's going on in the real world is generally fodder for it. More often than not I'm imagining my 'perfect life' where all my goals are being reached and there's a nice bit of eye candy on the side!

    Sometimes it goes from the sublime to the ridiculous, I'm some sort of global superstar or a news reporter extraordinaire (I work in media)...I've even featured as a crime fighting superhero...God that's a bit weird thinking about it now. The sane Beks will usually interject with 'wtf?', but delusional Beks always wins out...sure feck it, they're daydreams, you may as well enjoy them!

    Sex is a constant too. I'm actually a complete dirtbag on the inside. :o


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭caseyann


    They say too much day dreaming is a sign of part epilepsy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,404 ✭✭✭✭Pembily


    I am a total day dreamer a bit like Jokettle - sometimes about real stuff and sometimes about non real!!! Was given out to in school cause of it!!! My friends say I am like a magpie as I am so easily distracted / go into a day dream :rolleyes: But its part of my charm and it keeps me sane :D:D:D:D:D:D:D

    I love day dreaming :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭WaltKowalski


    I daydream about this
    jokettle wrote: »
    what way I'd like to decorate my house
    and
    That guy you like no matter how impossible in real life
    If the guy I fancy only knew what I was thinking about him!

    I don't believe this
    Sometimes visualising things you would like to happen actually helps to make them happen in real life
    And there is some of this
    epilepsy
    in my family!

    I'm very happy to know I'm not alone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭caseyann


    And there is some of this in my family!

    I'm very happy to know I'm not alone.

    Also can be related to sleep deprivation and vitamins etc... deficiency or dehydration:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭WaltKowalski


    And I'm also relieved to know that my imagination is clearly a lot duller than others!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭caseyann


    And I'm also relieved to know that my imagination is clearly a lot duller than others!

    lol :D:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,404 ✭✭✭✭Pembily


    And I'm also relieved to know that my imagination is clearly a lot duller than others!

    Oh if people knew my daydreams I would be committed or imprisoned!! :rolleyes::o:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    I'm a constant daydreamer :D

    Wouldn't have it any other way.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 16,186 ✭✭✭✭Maple


    All the time, I often crack up laughing at the tangents I take in my head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭smallgarden


    me too,even have imaginary arguments/conversations in my head,used to talk in my sleep going through what happened that day,my mind just keeps on turning and turning!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    I day dream or should i say I dream most of the time, when people are talking i vaze out into this world of untold adventure and then 5 minites later some ones saying you know like and im like errrrrr ummmm sorry i fazed out I live in a creative place in side my head at the moment its been really difficult to find a fixed point because im so enthusiastic/excited about what Im doing...

    So yea I dream we get told we have an assignment with a clue... I'm allready thinking about the subject and peace of music to go with it and start my brain storms. :D

    I day dreamed a comic in my head I have the name of the story and what happens I just need some one to draw it for me... :)

    I've the most vivid imagination you will ever experence people have said that to me half the time it involves space adventures with space ships and guns and pirates and hot chicks and sex, and explosions and battles even mushy stuff :eek:. But like even music sets me to day dream about certain things I love day dreaming its were my creativity comes from..


    I did faze out just now for about 5 minites and have no idea what i was thinking . yep fair to say i should get payed for it :D

    In other words my brains 85% creativity 15 % logical thats what my test results were in college......


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm a serious daydreamer! I get so easily distracted. I often forget what I'm saying half way through sentences because a thought has popped into my head.

    I'm away with the fairies half the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,431 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    :)
    :)
    :)
    :)



    Sorry, did yu say something? I was miles away :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    Links234 wrote: »
    I'm a constant daydreamer :D

    Wouldn't have it any other way.
    Nor me I go on beaches abroad I see a hot bod I stop (you know I thirsty) ha ha and I sit and watch the view(talent) and day dream nice way to relax and who is it hurting:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    margarite wrote: »
    Nor me I go on beaches abroad I see a hot bod I stop (you know I thirsty) ha ha and I sit and watch the view(talent) and day dream nice way to relax and who is it hurting:D

    erm, I mean daydreaming, like letting my mind wander or imagination go off, not leering at poeple


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    I love daydreaming. It makes me really happy. I wile away the days at the moment daydreaming about my hot classmate. Or Chuck Bass. Depends on my mood :).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    Links234 wrote: »
    erm, I mean daydreaming, like letting my mind wander or imagination go off, not leering at poeple
    I do not lear at people I just imagine what fun I could have with this person.
    and day dream about things we get up to like what s that game with the net and the ball where we have to hit back at each other. What did you think I meant? What do you day dream about?:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    Faith wrote: »
    I love daydreaming. It makes me really happy. I wile away the days at the moment daydreaming about my hot classmate. Or Chuck Bass. Depends on my mood :).
    You put it better then me there is a thing call visualization where if you feel upset or whatever you can imagine yourself with all you best friends being in a place of your choice and let you imagination take over from there. It has being proved that this can help in time of distress.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    I'm a serious daydreamer! I get so easily distracted. I often forget what I'm saying half way through sentences because a thought has popped into my head.

    I'm away with the fairies half the time.
    Yes I used to be like that, now I take a time out during the day and use my mind to make me happier and then I can get on with the work that I have to do. Its only a little day dream and it helps to relax me. What is wrong with that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    I day dream or should i say I dream most of the time, when people are talking i vaze out into this world of untold adventure and then 5 minites later some ones saying you know like and im like errrrrr ummmm sorry i fazed out I live in a creative place in side my head at the moment its been really difficult to find a fixed point because im so enthusiastic/excited about what Im doing...

    So yea I dream we get told we have an assignment with a clue... I'm allready thinking about the subject and peace of music to go with it and start my brain storms. :D

    I day dreamed a comic in my head I have the name of the story and what happens I just need some one to draw it for me... :)

    I've the most vivid imagination you will ever experence people have said that to me half the time it involves space adventures with space ships and guns and pirates and hot chicks and sex, and explosions and battles even mushy stuff :eek:. But like even music sets me to day dream about certain things I love day dreaming its were my creativity comes from..


    I did faze out just now for about 5 minites and have no idea what i was thinking . yep fair to say i should get payed for it :D

    In other words my brains 85% creativity 15 % logical thats what my test results were in college......
    So what u r saying is that day dreaming about the a project helps in your work of creativity, that is what I was originally trying to say it works!!!!:D
    Have I got it right. Not as someone thinks in the negative way but a positive way, what do you think?:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Asphyxia


    I am a big day dreamer :D

    I love to let my head wonder sometimes because I tend to come up with great ideas. I like to plan out my future plans when I am just lazing or bored, I figured out my whole travel plan the other day when I had a break between my classes.

    I love day dreaming because I do plan to make most of them reality :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    Pocketfizz wrote: »
    I am a big day dreamer :D

    I love to let my head wonder sometimes because I tend to come up with great ideas. I like to plan out my future plans when I am just lazing or bored, I figured out my whole travel plan the other day when I had a break between my classes.

    I love day dreaming because I do plan to make most of them reality :rolleyes:
    Yes its great to sort out anything you might be planning and have problems to help and see what thing is best for you, have any of this helped in a good way? if you do not mind me asking.:cool:


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I imagine characters which one day I hope I can put onto paper. I used to write nonstop (fiction) when I was 12-20, then I just quit it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    I imagine characters which one day I hope I can put onto paper. I used to write nonstop (fiction) when I was 12-20, then I just quit it.
    Why? you know that they do in some schools creative writing courses, So go out there and see if you can get us caught up in one of your mysteries, cry at your romances and even better laugh and get caught up in one of your stories. What do you think of that idea?:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    me too,even have imaginary arguments/conversations in my head,used to talk in my sleep going through what happened that day,my mind just keeps on turning and turning!
    Please try stop doing this, whatever you have done in the past try to think what is the appropriate action to take, and then move on and dream nice things, do you think this will help, I hope so.:)


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    margarite wrote: »
    Why? you know that they do in some schools creative writing courses, So go out there and see if you can get us caught up in one of your mysteries, cry at your romances and even better laugh and get caught up in one of your stories. What do you think of that idea?:)
    I don't know... for years I was obsessed with these characters that became to me real people, then as I got older, new characters. I have some pages upon pages of suggested characters I wrote down while on the bus or something, it just doesn't come as easy to me now as it did when I was younger. I am a gifted writer, not to say I'm great or anything, it's just the only thing I am good at so may as well recognise it. You know when people ask "What's your talent?" - music, art, etc are easy, if you say "Writing" people just laugh at you.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 15,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭rebel girl 15


    I daydream, and was told today in a lecture that daydreaming and fantasy is healthy once it is not 24/7 (Health lecture!). If I'm not daydreaming, I end up doodling, I have to keep my mind active in lectures or I'll fall asleep! My mind pretty much goes all day every day, even when I'm sleeping.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    Faith wrote: »
    I love daydreaming. It makes me really happy. I wile away the days at the moment daydreaming about my hot classmate. Or Chuck Bass. Depends on my mood :).

    Mmmmmmm...:D

    @Budgese, I'm the same! I write too so I daydream plotlines sometimes. Other times I have the normal "stealing Johnny Depp from Vanessa Paradis" type day-dreams.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    FouxDaFaFa wrote: »
    Mmmmmmm...:D

    @Budgese, I'm the same! I write too so I daydream plotlines sometimes. Other times I have the normal "stealing Johnny Depp from Vanessa Paradis" type day-dreams.

    I excelled at them at one point :D. I'd go on holidays to a tiny town in the South of France. I'd have a coffee one afternoon, sitting at a table outside this really small café. He'd sit at the same table as me because there was no more space, and I wouldn't recognise him, and we'd get chatting... :D


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I daydream, and was told today in a lecture that daydreaming and fantasy is healthy once it is not 24/7 (Health lecture!). If I'm not daydreaming, I end up doodling, I have to keep my mind active in lectures or I'll fall asleep! My mind pretty much goes all day every day, even when I'm sleeping.

    I hear ya!

    I have more doodles in my notebook than notes!!! And I dream all night long too!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    I don't know... for years I was obsessed with these characters that became to me real people, then as I got older, new characters. I have some pages upon pages of suggested characters I wrote down while on the bus or something, it just doesn't come as easy to me now as it did when I was younger. I am a gifted writer, not to say I'm great or anything, it's just the only thing I am good at so may as well recognise it. You know when people ask "What's your talent?" - music, art, etc are easy, if you say "Writing" people just laugh at you.
    Did you see recently that the author of the Harry Potter said 'I still have the characters still in my head I might write another Harry Potter book'
    The reason it may be hard for you to put down your characters down for you maybe because of your life now, any chance you could take a few hours for yourself and look at the ideas/characters you might end up writing a brilliant story which could lead to more books who would be laughing at you then? good luck :)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    I'm a dream machine!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    I'm a dream machine!
    Do you mean in looks, or u just churn them out because you have nothing better to do. I d go with the latter. What do you think:confused::confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    Faith wrote: »
    I excelled at them at one point :D. I'd go on holidays to a tiny town in the South of France. I'd have a coffee one afternoon, sitting at a table outside this really small café. He'd sit at the same table as me because there was no more space, and I wouldn't recognise him, and we'd get chatting... :D
    I am glad some people got what I was saying, it does you good, go for it and enjoy the nicer the better ha ha.:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭La frog fairy


    ahha i do too, think its plenty healthy to do so..

    Mostly when i have a crush on someone, nice to daydream then, oh boy the thoughts...yep, and they say boys have dirty minds, if only they knew;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    ahha i do too, think its plenty healthy to do so..

    Mostly when i have a crush on someone, nice to daydream then, oh boy the thoughts...yep, and they say boys have dirty minds, if only they knew;)
    At least some people got what I was saying, its nice to daydream and think happy thoughts, glad other people get the thread and not accuse me of leering. Its nice, well I think so and go for my friend.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭Linguo


    I love daydreaming, think reading loads fuels it and strangely enough I love daydreaming about end of the world scenarios and how my family and I hoard supplies and survive:D The Road got me going on thatvibe and The Passage has added a vampire element!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    Linguo wrote: »
    I love daydreaming, think reading loads fuels it and strangely enough I love daydreaming about end of the world scenarios and how my family and I hoard supplies and survive:D The Road got me going on thatvibe and The Passage has added a vampire element!
    What is 'The Passage':)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭Linguo


    The Passage is an amazing book by Justin Cronin, would highly recommend it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    Linguo wrote: »
    The Passage is an amazing book by Justin Cronin, would highly recommend it
    Thank you, I love a good book, any more that people can recommended would be most appreciated:).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,351 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Yes I do nearly everyday!:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    Yes I do nearly everyday!:cool:
    sorry I think I have lost the thread to what you are saying, you do what everyday?:confused:


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Axton Grumpy Zoo


    margarite wrote: »
    sorry I think I have lost the thread to what you are saying, you do what everyday?:confused:

    The thread title?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭margarite


    bluewolf wrote: »
    The thread title?!
    The thread title 'Do you day dream, and if so tell us.':)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30,731 ✭✭✭✭princess-lala


    margarite wrote: »
    The thread title 'Do you day dream, and if so tell us.':)

    I think she means she daydreams everyday!!


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