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What do you daydream about?
Whether it's thinking about a videogame, fantasizing your future, a new workout, pondering existence, etc. What do you spend your free time thinking about?
I like to spend a lot of my free time defining what a human is and what it means to be one, and I always enjoy watching as my ideas progress over time. So what is something you muse about in your free time? What do you like to sporadically think about and what questions do you often return to?
I probably spend a good portion of my day daydreaming. Things that I think about:
How am I feeling and what are the causes for those feelings
Random thoughts I want to research later. Lately it's been REST and SOAP APIs and their Python wrappers. Other times it is something related to Psychology.
How are my friends doing
What is my family up to
Things I used to do as a kid
Probability - what degree of knowing the likelihood of things occurring is technically feasible
What other people's lives are like
Pets that have long passed away
The many different ways I could be perceived by others
What should I be doing right now instead of day dreaming
Work projects
Food
Friendships I had in the past and where those people are today
Daydreaming makes me sad sometimes but can also get me excited about stuff.
-oh! And wondering of my friends are upset or annoy by me.... Even though they more than likely arent...
I've always had what's called maladaptive daydreaming. It's basically excessively daydreaming to the point of it interfering with your life, although I've been doing much better in recent years.
I daydream about:
How does one become diagnosed with this if you don't mind me asking?
It's no problem, I'm happy to answer any questions you might have!
I self-diagnosed myself after reading about it online extensively and talking about it with friends who don't daydream as much as I do and it clicked for me that I was daydreaming often and intensely as a kid. I usually don't recommend self-diagnosing, but it's not an offical disorder (yet) so I don't mind labeling myself as such.
The thing is, I got my daydreaming mostly under control since I turned 18, so I guess it'd be better to say I am an immersive daydreamer as of now.
My mind is a broken record lately. Like for the past three years. It’s not great.
I’ve found myself using work and TV as an escape more and more lately.
Jesus, that story sure is something. Thanks for posting.
I don't daydream about climate change but it does discolour my day-to-day and something related to climate change can easily trigger me into antipathy and mild stress. It's also alienating when most 'progressive' people in my country only treat climate-change activism like an AIDS ribbon, never entertaining seriously that they'd go vegan, cancel that 2nd trip overseas for the year, or vote for a green political party.
I can relate. I worry about my immediate future a bit since things there are uncertain, but other than that it's climate change. It probably doesn't help that the last few days I've been listening to Firestorm, an album for after the apocalypse. In the title track, there's one line that gets me every time:
It's so strange how my SO and I will talk about the future we hope to build together, and in the same conversation acknowledge the Climate War we feel is on the horizon if we continue on our current path.
Just now I was thinking that the energy of youth overflows everything, but when it dries out you start seeing the rougher edges of your personality appear, a bit like your facial features grow more prominent as you get older. Thinking about my family too.
Food is definitely one of the best things to daydream about lol
In order of frequency:
** How much I can rework the plot to an original setting in the likely event that I never work for Marvel.
** Would it work for DC? (Gotham Academy kind of explored that ground, so probably not?)
Dreaming that we'll be alive in 2050 and have fixed the vast majority of our current problems and defeated most of our (local) enemies, people are optimistic and ready for the future and wondering how those future people would think of this time and we now and what we would become of then. Also dream about what would politics be like in that world, especially since our current problems that have solutions in government regulation (I know that isn't everything but it seems to be the majority) would be fixed and so maybe we would look more towards addressing the future before it comes (tech never stops) maybe we would be fighting moral wars over polygamy/amory and artificial wombs, maybe we would be trying to turn the EU or (Spanish speaking) Latin America into a single nation, among other dreams.
Dreaming of being where I want to be, sometimes materialistically (jargon for "upper middle class"), usually not (i.e emotionally, see personal stuff and insecurities by Moocow)
A version of the lo-fi girl but she's somewhere in interwar Europe or Great Depression America and chaos is in the background with some sad music on the background.
The above, but today.
Dreaming of Alternate history:
(Somewhat often)
What if the US had a electoral system that (properly) allowed for multiple parties? What would the 1930s in this US look like?
What if the HRE was a centralized empire for it's whole duration and the state of "Germany" was a thousand years old?
(occasionally)
What if the century of humiliation never happened?
What if native Americans weren't
demographically replacedreduced by 90% because of European plague and America (the continent) remained native American to this day?What if the US took over Canada at some point in history or they joined the revolution?
So mostly about the world, but often enough me.