I saw a post talking about how losing MADD would suck because it’s sort of become apart of their identity and that even though it’s “maladaptive” it feels like it would genuinely suck to lose it and like I totally agree.
Like personally I wouldn’t be bored if I stopped daydreaming (mostly cause I’ve been using madd to avoid my responsibilities and hobbies) but I would feel like I’ve lost a part of me. Thinking about not daydreaming feels scary cause like I’d be opening a hole that madd was filling and by getting rid of my daydreams I’d never be able to close it
I’m like honestly frightened about losing my paras. At this point they are a permanent part of me and who I am and to lose them feels like losing me
Reading posts like these, I want to remind everyone that healing from MaDD isn’t to stop daydreaming- it’s to stop being negatively affected by it. It’s to switch to immersive daydreaming. You don’t have to leave your paracosms, you don’t have to abandon your paras. It’s about targeting how and why your daydreaming negatively impacts you (intrusive daydream themes, urges to daydream in inappropriate situations, etc.).
The points made in the above post are so valid, and I really do resonate with them. But there is an established difference between non-MaDD and non-daydreaming.
another annoying madd thing: memory loss from such frequent and intense daydreams. idk if this happens to idders too but i literally remember my childhood daydreams better than the childhood itself and even now i could tell you what the daydreams were about in detail. it’s literally so easy to lose track of time when i slip into daydreams and this is how i lose hours, days to do my work. i don’t remember key things about my life, sometimes i feel like im no longer a real human being, only the narrator of the stories inside of my head, the observer. i don’t even have a personality of my own, im just a bunch of people i carefully created inside my head
felt this so deeply. i’ll start to daydream at like 6:00 then i blink and it’s 10:00 and it’s so wasteful of my time. i’m also starting to lose childhood memories, and i also feel like i would have nothing interesting about myself without my paras. they’ve been around for too long for me to get rid of them.
I just spent an hour and a half talking out loud to my paras about the show Masterchef. I think my lack of social interaction is slowly driving me insane.
no fr i do this way too often one time i had a conversation with my paras about american history that was fairly long
I’m bored and need more stuff to listen to, so what was the last song that you guys daydreamed to? you can explain why you chose that song if you want. I also just like hearing what you guys have to say :)
if your daydreams were a tv show what would the twitter discourse be about ? i think mine would be about how much trauma dumping there is and too much violence and/or triggering themes
oh my a lot of addiction, bad relationships, and whore behavior also religious abuse and much much more LMAO. it might be problematic who knows it does have some good meanings under it all tho :,)
