Daydreaming..... and walking .

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I am NT, and I always walk or pace while daydreaming. It just seems...stale to think without moving.

No, I'm, NT and like I said I day dream.......alot. I have to be careful or I'll talk to myself and even move my hands.

My older sis is NT (she s too sociable) ....but she was used to do that sometimes as she told me once before when she was little . ...well she s my sis so we share a lot of genes afterall lol .

I day dream ALL THE TIME. Sometimes I just stop and sit like a zombie, because my mind is not any near my body, so to speak. It is the only time I sit really still, without any foot tapping, or fingernail squeezing. At least now that I am learning the things I like to learn in college, I have more time in productive day dreams, versus the ones I had the rest of my life, that have questionable, if any, bennefits. In fact my day dreaming has become a powerful tool in my pursuit of knowledge and understanding. Sometimes I hate doing things like driving because I just want to get back to my thoughts, and I can't because I have to pay attention to the road.

After the obligatory post post contemplation, I found I had trouble with my answer because I do not know, when does just regular thinking become a day dream?

Oh, hell yeah. All the time...especially in Maths Only problem is that when I'm doing it at home, I tend to talk to myself, which is a tad unsettling for my parents.
Me: And then he died horribly, tee hee hee
Parents: 0_o
Anyone else in a habit of doing that?

I'm definately a day dreaming, especially when walking. I walk pretty much everywhere, since I dont have a car, and unlike most people it doesnt bother me at all. I keep my mind entertained by daydreaming about this or that. I also am an avid jogger, and I daydream the most while jogging. It must be some sort of defence mechanism vs boredom and exhaustion.

What a lot of you are describing sounds like Maladaptive Daydreaming. It's a condition that causes excessive daydreaming. Some people with this problem will pace or do other stimming type behavior while daydreaming. Here is a website about it:

http://www.daydreamingdisorder.webs.com/

I don't really daydream at all. About the closest I get is zoning out while working on a problem or designing something.

Wow, a vintage thread from 2006.

Well, as for "maladaptive daydreaming", they sure do know how to turn everything into a disorder, don't they?

I've been doing the pacing/running around while daydreaming since I was four. It's something I do almost automatically....as long as no one is around. I almost got caught by my grandmother pacing when I was 10. Every time she'd walk into the room, I'd hurry up and sit down like I wasn't doing anything. She was like, "What are you doing. Why do you keep sitting down like that?" Whatever explanation I gave her, I don't think she bought it but she left the subject alone.

I day dream a lot. If I'm not careful I daydream at the bus stop and while walking and have to pull my self out of it as I cross the road. It's the weirdest thing. I don't know if it's an Aspie or ADHD thing.