Dethl wrote:
So this topic has been discussed to death on this forum but I'm hoping the mods will give me a pass to do it one more time: constant, incessant daydreaming and if anyone has stopped it.
I think researching our obsessions, stimming (rocking back and forth etc), and daydreaming are all means of dealing with a seemingly ever-present anxiety. I'm wondering if anyone has had any success in cutting back any of these things.
Has anyone curbed their stimming? Any reduction in daydreams? Both of these things I think are affecting me in a pretty negative way so any help or comments (even the dismissive ones) would be appreciated
(I previously posted something similar to this earlier at
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=199316&start=30 )
I used to daydream a lot as a child until I was about 21 years old. After that, I learned to get it under control.
My daydreaming was so bad that it affected every aspect of my life. I was not able to hear what was going on around me, I wasn't able to socialise because all I heard was the inside of my head.
I realise now that part of the reason I was daydreaming was in order to subconsciously avoid having to deal with the awfulness of day to day life. As soon as I understood that, I was able to control it a little better.
I started by training myself to listen to what was happening around me. When I read book, I looked up every time I heard a noise or at the end of every page to see if anyone around me was doing anything "exciting" (I was infamous for being in the centre of the room and having no idea what was happening). If anyone was talking around me, I would stop reading and I would look at them and listen and try to analyse their words.
It took some practice but now the only time I daydream is when I'm alone in my room, after I come back home from work. I guess everyone would have their own strategies though. I'm not on this forum a lot, it'd be interesting to see other threads on this topic.
28 Jun 2016, 2:28 pm
