Daydream/fantasy world?

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I still dive into fantasy land. Especially when I'm not really doing anything that requires a lot of concentration.

I have done this (daydreaming at night before bed) since I was 11 and I thought it meant that I was a writer, but recently I found out it's one of those aspie things I was obsessed with drawing as a teen and couldn't imagine a life without my stories and characters. Nowadays, though, the daydreams don't really come unless I inspire them. I don't have any new, original material. I think it might be because I'm at peace with real-life. I also notice that writing them down makes their energy and fascination dissipate, like I have pooped them out of my brain and the urge to think about them is gone.

They have changed over time, but the stayed the same over periods of time. I can recall each period as if it were a movie. They'd play like movies in my head, and when the drama was concluded, it would be the "end" and slowly, another new movie would take its place over the course of a few nights.

Early on, they mostly had to do with mythological half-human, half animal creatures. There were mermaids who lived in molten lava, and girls who were like centaurs, but had lion bodies instead of horse bodies.

That would happen to me a lot too. When I learned that people wrote those stories down and called it fanfiction, I threw myself into that culture until I became immersed in my original stories.

I enjoyed torturing my main characters through freak accidents and epic social drama, usually my self-insert or alter-ego :/ Either that or I would make them masochistic. Did anybody else do this? It was entertaining and somehow therapeutic. Maybe I shouldn't be talking about this...

Mine are similar...the characters are mainly from fantasy novels. I won't go into too much detail bcs of talked about my fantasy worlds in many threads........I love discussing them.....hence my username and stated location.

I do the same, at the moment I'm obsessed with imagining living in the distant future like the year 3000. I picture this in my mind, than try to construct a lucid dream from it. Of course there are hints of sci-fi mixed in, like me having telekinesis or something.

I too found that writing about the fantasies in my head made them go away in sense. It puts them to rest at least for a while. But this is exactly why I took up writing. I am literally haunted by characters and stories until I write them down. Once they are written as whole complete stories, it's as if they are no longer living stories but rather reference points for memories.

I had been doing this since I was very young. I had started out having imaginary adventures with the characters from Star Wars. This is considered normal among kids. In fact my nephews would do exactly the same. And I assumed I would grow out of it. I never did well into my 30s. I also assumed that if my external life was fine, then the fantasies I escaped to would stop. That didn't happen either.

You can say whatever you want about full grown adults having a vivid fantasy world in their head. It hurts no one one. Even if people consider it weird. In fact, I would consider it beneficial. This is most likely why Einstein was a genius. He was famous for doing thought experiments and is quoted as saying "Imagination is more important than knowledge." He was most likely an aspie.

Here's a drawing of two characters from one of my fantasy worlds:


Orc+Kobold

And another from the same:


Frogman

The world is Chitheria Tempus. Click the name of the place to learn about it.

I have worlds in my head and have had them since I was young. Most if not all of them are at least very loosely based off shows or movies I've seen or stories I've read or even pictures or the pictures and blurbs on the backs of movies I read once without ever seeing the movie that went with.

Then I got into role playing via text based games online and just added more worlds and characters to the ones I already had.