Dear Lisa:

Well done on your eating habits. I hope you continue.

Maladaptive daydreaming is a recently coined term, I think. But I am familiar with the experience as I daydreamed all day long for years, mostly as a teenager. I had a story in my head that kept going and going and going, an alternative life, removed from what was the here-and-now for me.

I think that later on reading books took the place of that daydreaming, sinking into the (non fiction, mostly) story I read, disappearing for hours from my here-and-now life.

In fantasy, or in someone else’s story, lots of things happen and we don’t have to wait through boring times. If we want love (and I did), there were ongoing love stories I involved myself in, all fantasy. Things happened quickly, and I felt them, I felt the things that… weren’t really happening. I have a smile on my face as I remember.

anita