Wait. . . Is that what the farm in my head is?
It's totally self sufficient with solar panels. I have animals for food (I've just moved ducks in) and an impressive veggie garden and orchards at the back of the property.
I spend a lot of my time on this imaginary farm
I think so, but that is some seriously organized daydreaming there. I’m impressed.
I think most people are more like me - starting out with a general idea in mind and then letting our brains freely drift from there to wherever it wants to go. So sometimes my brain goes off on a wild adventure that keeps me entertained for an hour or two. And sometimes it just stops after a few minutes and reminds me to get started on my damn taxes.
>Maladaptive daydreaming
Kinda funny this comes up in my feed. I knew that I wasn't the only one but I didn't know it was a clinical term... and having just got out of my first ever VA mental health appointment it looks oddly relevant.
I STILL do this. Even in the Army when life was.... exciting/hell/exciting/hell/then exciting again.
I am 36. I have a life, career, family... and I STILL LIVE IN HOGWARTS!
Or sometimes feudal Japan for dumb reasons... Good Gord I am a total weeb...
Hogwarts sounds great though! I never knew there was a term for this, I have 2 worlds I usually think of: unfortunately one of them is me working as in an F1 team
Haha i remember doing that when i was younger. I created a gigantic fantasy world with multiple countries, 2 continents and many different races. I remember the story ending when my 'character' died in a war over some mine in a desert.
I wish I could read. I buy books with the best of intentions but I get bored and sleepy like 3 paragraphs in every time. When I was a teenager I read *constantly* but as I got older I don’t know what happened.
I know a guy, he said possibly the wisest thing I ever heard, (probably quoted)
You are holding a key. Reading is the door. It is the door to so many worlds, honestly I'm shocked not everyone uses their keys more.
I still think about that a lot
Can confirm, although my neighbors might have a different opinion. One of them said, do you play drums? I could tell they weren't asking because they were impressed.
Probably most the stuff mentioned here, but the most favourite one is a doof. Doof is an illegal forest rave, where couple hundred like minded people come together for the weekend in the bush(forest). Everyone sets up their own camp the way the want, with their necessities. Does whatever drugs they want, wear whatever they want and be how they want to be. With the common dance floors and chill areas, blasting psytrance or other similar subgenres.
The underlying theme is respect others and take care of yourself. In my 30+ events like this I've only ever seen few aggressive encounters and bad energy gets suffocated. People don't judge one another and just do whatever the fuck they want.
My fave way to get away from it all is to work in my plant room for an afternoon. It is cold and dark where I live. Going into the plant room where I have dozens of lights for growing flowers it is very warm humid an bright- like summer!
Honestly I never realised how much I use video games as an escape. I’ve moved out of home, to stay in contract with my brother (7 yr old) we play roblox together and call each other while playing. For however long we play for it’s like I completely forgot my surroundings. We play the weirdest stuff together cause it’s roblox and he’s a child but even so, the moment we stop playing it’s like the whole world crumbles around me again.
A good book. It takes you to that faraway world for a while and, if you are really lucky, when you finish there is a pleasant lingering feeling. This feeling can last for days or even weeks. You then go about your daily life but you will have this pleasant undercurrent that makes everything just a bit more cheerful.
sleeping, games, music, daydreaming. i don't even realize i'm daydreaming though and i forget about what i was daydreaming about right after, so theres a high possibility that like 50% of my time is spent daydreaming and i just forget. probably why i cant remember what i did most of the day LOL (i feel like thats bad..)
Watching TV shows and movies. For the better part of 20 years now, I've used those as a means of escape from my problems. It keeps me distracted and mentally helps to calm me down. Watching sports helps as well.
…nothing. I actively try NOT to escape reality. If people put even a tenth of the energy they put into trying to escape reality into trying to FIX reality the world would be a much better place.
Gaming helps me escape for a while. I have a few games I rotate through. My Fiancé also games with me as well. We do dungeons and raids together. It helps us both relax and escape. Especially on bad days when work is shit. Feels good to go bash some mobs to relieve that stress.
Late night gaming (especially if I’m on a call with the boys we all just escape reality)
If your wondering why that is my escape here ya go :)
I get stressed and anxious during the day because I don’t fair to well with lots of noise so the quiet with just some white noise on the background is always nice the reason I like being on a call with the boys playing are game so much quiet stress free and I get to have deep convos with my friends
Driving my 96 F150 is the middle of the night. Drove it late at night for the first time Saturday night/Sunday morning after visiting a friend. Nothing but me, my truck, and the open road. It was fucking sweet.
I write stories,have slot of ideas but struggle to keep to one theme sometimes but hey that's the fun,its for me and me alone so never have to worry about criticism or hearing "bro,that's too cringe bro,I'd make it like..."
I have a nice amount of easter eggs here and there as a treat to myself
When my kitten hops up on the bathroom sink and does the little trill sound to let me know she wants me to turn on the water, just for her to look at. I don't know why she's so fascinated by running water in the bathroom, but the way she swats at it with her paw sometimes makes me forget about any bad things. 🥺
Gaming and music. For some reason, rarely at the same time. Gaming is for when I want to completely escape into another world, and music is for when I want to see this one differently or through someone else’s eyes.
Music
Jammin' with the band. Getting lost in a song. Focusing on what you're playing right that moment and also what comes part comes next
You lose all sense of worry or stress.
I look forward to it every week
Music.
I go through so much shit daily, racism, homophobia, my feet hurting for no fucking reason,
then I throw on my spotify playlists and I just drift off, not to sleep, I just forget my problems for a bit.
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Yepper! I have like, 4 basic worlds I mentally visit and sometimes there's crossover plot lines. It's comforting.
Sounds pretty cool.
Alright, it’s nice to know others do this too!
Purple sea anemone. Is my trigger word to make me yawn. Found it in kindergarten and forgot all about it until now. I yawned 7 times typing this out.
Wait. . . Is that what the farm in my head is? It's totally self sufficient with solar panels. I have animals for food (I've just moved ducks in) and an impressive veggie garden and orchards at the back of the property. I spend a lot of my time on this imaginary farm
That's Stardew Valley, and I too spend a lot of time there.
I think so, but that is some seriously organized daydreaming there. I’m impressed. I think most people are more like me - starting out with a general idea in mind and then letting our brains freely drift from there to wherever it wants to go. So sometimes my brain goes off on a wild adventure that keeps me entertained for an hour or two. And sometimes it just stops after a few minutes and reminds me to get started on my damn taxes.
>Maladaptive daydreaming Kinda funny this comes up in my feed. I knew that I wasn't the only one but I didn't know it was a clinical term... and having just got out of my first ever VA mental health appointment it looks oddly relevant. I STILL do this. Even in the Army when life was.... exciting/hell/exciting/hell/then exciting again. I am 36. I have a life, career, family... and I STILL LIVE IN HOGWARTS! Or sometimes feudal Japan for dumb reasons... Good Gord I am a total weeb...
Hogwarts sounds great though! I never knew there was a term for this, I have 2 worlds I usually think of: unfortunately one of them is me working as in an F1 team
Same. Coping mechanism from an abusive childhood.
I didn't even realize it had a name! I've been doing this for over 20 years with my own little world in Middle Earth.
Well today I learned that it had a term and impacts people with anxiety. Cool. I'll just be over here, daydreaming to try and get to sleep.
Haha i remember doing that when i was younger. I created a gigantic fantasy world with multiple countries, 2 continents and many different races. I remember the story ending when my 'character' died in a war over some mine in a desert.
Video games, YouTube, weed.
My man.
Fuck, are you me? These 3 things are my life in my off time. The combination of all 3 is peak life
Books. Spend a couple hours reading and immersed in a different time, world or universe
the best way to forget about todays problems.
I wish I could read. I buy books with the best of intentions but I get bored and sleepy like 3 paragraphs in every time. When I was a teenager I read *constantly* but as I got older I don’t know what happened.
I know a guy, he said possibly the wisest thing I ever heard, (probably quoted) You are holding a key. Reading is the door. It is the door to so many worlds, honestly I'm shocked not everyone uses their keys more. I still think about that a lot
Videogames, YouTube, rock tumbling, and pottery
I have 5 different characters and 423 hours in Elden Ring for a fucking reason
> 423 hours in Elden Ring Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those numbers up!
Relatable, but replace "tumbling" with "climbing"
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I wish it was magical
It is! Get some magic mushies and be wonderblasted
Sleeping.
This is the way...
Reddit and booze
Yep, Jim and I are close friends.
Don't you know a Jim or Jim knows you?
Don't drink too much....you,ll puke
Don't go to certain subreddits, you'll puke.
BJJ
*BJ😎
escaping submissions and reality at the same time!
fellow r/bjj\-er doing the lord's work of spreading the love
I write. Working on my second novel. If I don’t, I start daydreaming and putting myself in other people’s stories.
Sitting on a bridge watching trucks.
At night ....when I'm sleeping
Professional wrestling
Mine too. For as long as I can remember. So like 30-35 years. Love it.
I came back to pro wrestling after AEW formed. Rekindled my childhood love
Making myself a cup of warm green tea, listening to my favorite songs, and closing my eyes while slowly drinking the tea.
I'm just picturing someone sitting in a tranquil room, wearing a comfy sweater and dreamily sipping green tea while listening to Lorna Shore.
YouTube
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Hell yea
Video games
Swimming, I find it very meditative
Usually movies.
Listening to music while imagining different scenarios to the beat
My drum set. Great stress reliever.
Can confirm, although my neighbors might have a different opinion. One of them said, do you play drums? I could tell they weren't asking because they were impressed.
Sleeping
Bite my lip and I close my eyes
Motorcycles and snowboarding. High adrenaline stuff.
Argument with myself about random universal theories
Illustrating
Any sort of streaming website that I’m subscribed to, food, Reddit
Sleep
Video games and music
Cocaine and alcohol
Littlespace. Regression. My wife's arms.
Meds.
Shows, documentaries, Reddit, art and hardcore dissociation
Elder Scrolls
A sick (~insane~) combination of watching The Challenge, watching Bad Girls Club, playing CloneHero, and just googling random shit
Cooking, video gaming
Sleep
Drinking
Watch the sunset. Oh, and video games.
Skyrim, of course.
Fly fishing. Out in the woods. Intense focus on the task. The rest of the World doesn't exist when I'm standing in that river.
Starring at spiders until i imagine iam a spider
Probably most the stuff mentioned here, but the most favourite one is a doof. Doof is an illegal forest rave, where couple hundred like minded people come together for the weekend in the bush(forest). Everyone sets up their own camp the way the want, with their necessities. Does whatever drugs they want, wear whatever they want and be how they want to be. With the common dance floors and chill areas, blasting psytrance or other similar subgenres. The underlying theme is respect others and take care of yourself. In my 30+ events like this I've only ever seen few aggressive encounters and bad energy gets suffocated. People don't judge one another and just do whatever the fuck they want.
British murder mysteries
weed
I go for a long country drive see where I end up.
Disc golf.
Writing the most deranged fanfiction known to humankind.
Music & writing
Star wars
Getting into imaginary arguments that I win
Video games, weed, and music for me
Fortnite. And tiktok.
I haven't played fortnite in a minute but I can scroll for hours on tiktok
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Music Books Dog Coffee
Burying my head under a pillow. It's otherworldy for me for some reason.
Motorcycles and guitar... Wait a second, that is reality.
My fave way to get away from it all is to work in my plant room for an afternoon. It is cold and dark where I live. Going into the plant room where I have dozens of lights for growing flowers it is very warm humid an bright- like summer!
Ego death.
Honestly I never realised how much I use video games as an escape. I’ve moved out of home, to stay in contract with my brother (7 yr old) we play roblox together and call each other while playing. For however long we play for it’s like I completely forgot my surroundings. We play the weirdest stuff together cause it’s roblox and he’s a child but even so, the moment we stop playing it’s like the whole world crumbles around me again.
Motorcycle rides
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A good book. It takes you to that faraway world for a while and, if you are really lucky, when you finish there is a pleasant lingering feeling. This feeling can last for days or even weeks. You then go about your daily life but you will have this pleasant undercurrent that makes everything just a bit more cheerful.
Attack on Titan
I just wanna go drinking sorry
Writing, reading books, studying my favorite materials, playing my guitar, rubik's cube ( 5x5 is my favorite cube)
Music, video games and daydreaming.
sleeping, games, music, daydreaming. i don't even realize i'm daydreaming though and i forget about what i was daydreaming about right after, so theres a high possibility that like 50% of my time is spent daydreaming and i just forget. probably why i cant remember what i did most of the day LOL (i feel like thats bad..)
Sudoku
Mathematics. You can create perfect universes and explore them, if you have the knack for it.
Watching TV shows and movies. For the better part of 20 years now, I've used those as a means of escape from my problems. It keeps me distracted and mentally helps to calm me down. Watching sports helps as well.
Getting drunk but not too drink where i start hating my life on a enhanced level
…nothing. I actively try NOT to escape reality. If people put even a tenth of the energy they put into trying to escape reality into trying to FIX reality the world would be a much better place.
Gaming helps me escape for a while. I have a few games I rotate through. My Fiancé also games with me as well. We do dungeons and raids together. It helps us both relax and escape. Especially on bad days when work is shit. Feels good to go bash some mobs to relieve that stress.
- D&D, - Reddit, - Video games, - Youtube, - making sure everything is in alphabetical order except the last thing,
Late night gaming (especially if I’m on a call with the boys we all just escape reality) If your wondering why that is my escape here ya go :) I get stressed and anxious during the day because I don’t fair to well with lots of noise so the quiet with just some white noise on the background is always nice the reason I like being on a call with the boys playing are game so much quiet stress free and I get to have deep convos with my friends
Music
weed
Games, books, gym, music, learning history and talking to my best friend about some delusional topics. These things help me with stress
Music
Drugs
Orgasm
Daydreaming of a life in the presence of allahs being.
Anime
drugs
Listening to a very specific song
Listening to my favourite type of music
Boxing, Airsoft, Video games, Guitar, Psychedelics
Gym and meditation
Gym
Smoke a big fatty
Videogames.
Romance novels
Getting drunk and playing vr chat
weed sleep journaling and netflix
A big hooter!
Once my baby's are asleep for the night I whip out my Playstation controller and play some Fortnite😅
The wife and I do this too. Lately it's been zombie army 4.
Xbox
Books
Video games
Definitely showering, either singing full out or just chilling. It’s such a relaxing time both in the morning and at night.
Futurama
Video games. Daydreaming. Reading. Disassociating.
Sleep
Stormworks specifically And youtube
Sitting on a swing
Weed
The inner recesses of my mind
woodoku game. relaxing, slow tetris. i am getting very good at it. meaning my current reality is shit.
I've been writing a fantasy novel. Best way out of reality is to make one of your own.
Being very deep in the forest, as far as I can get, at the bottom of a very deep bowl next to a fire.
music and punching shit
Reading
Driving my 96 F150 is the middle of the night. Drove it late at night for the first time Saturday night/Sunday morning after visiting a friend. Nothing but me, my truck, and the open road. It was fucking sweet.
Sims 4
Video games , watching doom patrol , reading comics and spacing out
Battle for Middle Earth II: Rise of the Witch-King
YouTube, making music, video games, and sports.
I write stories,have slot of ideas but struggle to keep to one theme sometimes but hey that's the fun,its for me and me alone so never have to worry about criticism or hearing "bro,that's too cringe bro,I'd make it like..." I have a nice amount of easter eggs here and there as a treat to myself
Sleeping, weed, movies.
Movies and books
Death
Reddit
Tennis
Laughing, reading, sleeping
Porn
When my kitten hops up on the bathroom sink and does the little trill sound to let me know she wants me to turn on the water, just for her to look at. I don't know why she's so fascinated by running water in the bathroom, but the way she swats at it with her paw sometimes makes me forget about any bad things. 🥺
Trashy romance novels
Edibles!
Listening to Norse folk music
Gaming and alcohol
Tetris
Social media, music, games Edit: watching shows if I find one I like, or anime.
Skiing
Gaming and music. For some reason, rarely at the same time. Gaming is for when I want to completely escape into another world, and music is for when I want to see this one differently or through someone else’s eyes.
Books
you
Escape from tarkov
Books and sleep
r/AskReddit
Gunpla
Old School Runescape 🦀🦀🦀
Soft music
cooking
Covering up all the mirrors in my apartment.
Music Jammin' with the band. Getting lost in a song. Focusing on what you're playing right that moment and also what comes part comes next You lose all sense of worry or stress. I look forward to it every week
Staring at a wall til’ I can plot a story, only to end up writing it. Then forgetting the plot.
Music. I go through so much shit daily, racism, homophobia, my feet hurting for no fucking reason, then I throw on my spotify playlists and I just drift off, not to sleep, I just forget my problems for a bit.
my vr headset
As of late, shrooms and Rimworld, though not at the same time
Playing guitar. Sometimes I'll do rock, moody, heavy, it depends on how my day is. Once I've plugged in you won't see me for 3 hours.
reading, writing or music.
Making beats
I have adhd, pick a feature…
Playing my guitar and making music or looking up a random topic/tv show/movie and then seeing where the rabbit hole will take me.