#for daydream purposes

[sainz100]

September 2nd in Venice via Fernando's Insta

[ladyironsky]

Humans are weird- daydreaming

The aliens keep coming across humans, sitting in the weirdest positions (usually by a viewport) just completely checked out. Eyes open and moving, still breathing, just completely unaware of what's happening around them.

The human gets startled when the aliens get their attention and when the alien asks what they were doing, the human says daydreaming. Now the aliens know what dreaming is, the brain cataloging and sorting memories in a visual way while asleep, but daydreaming is a whole new ballgame.

The human then goes on to explain that they were bored and purposefully relaxed their muscles and started conjuring images in their brain for entertainment. The human then goes on to explain the different worlds they created in their heads, the stories, ideas, etc that just live in their head and they go visit when they're bored.

The aliens are completely blown away and a little freaked out.

[takahashits]

HEAR ME OUT!!!!! content creators au with your f/os…!!!!

what would be their online persona? what would be YOUR online persona?

how would you guys meet? through a collab? maybe an among us stream? or a shared minecraft smp? or would your first interactions be under a random twitter post?

or if you have a romantic f/o in mind… maybe through love or host? 👀

[alsojnpie]

If the ask thing is still allowed, is ur Papyrus purely the horrortale one or is OG Papyrus also there? Love ur art and stuff btw aaaa Ur self-ship art is so cute >\\\\\<

awwwwwe thank you :' ) i will hold your kind words tight and treasure them forever❤️❤️

and you mean my imaginary friends right?

sometimes i do imagine og papyrus because it makes me sad to think of him being left out and i love him so much. but that's more me playing with daydream toys, then him being a real imaginary friend. (which like, playing with daydream toys is kind of the first step to imaginary friend! but..)

i haven't seen the real imaginary friend him ever since years ago (i can rewind the tape in my mind and you can actually pinpoint the second his heart rips in half) and it feels insulting to force. he left on purpose. i could probably make a new one and indeed I've half-heartedly tried but again it feels rude. also that was the most tangible and least constructed papyrus in my mind so anything i make specifically to replace him inevitably feels kinda phony.

[everyone-with-a-para]

i hope everyone with a para that has committed patricide and/or matricide has a great day

(mongrel my beloved, <3)

My parent issues really shine through with these ones

[ishomieokay]

A part of me hates the phrase "go outside and touch grass" because I work from 8:00 till 23:00 everyday. I literally don't have the time to go touch grass. All the mental rest I get throughout the day are my silly lil posts about my blorbo and yeah, they are weird and cringey but I'm having fun and it doesn't harm anyone. Leave me alone. I get to maladative dream all I want.

[hilacopter]

hate how people can't fucking differentiate between ADD and ADHD and don't understand that it has different degrees of severity like autism does. don't know if it's just a my country/language thing but here we call it either ADHD or attention deficit disorder kind of just interchangeably, which is a big fucking problem because it doesn't acknowledge the hyperactivity and everyone with ADD just gets lumped in as ADHD because I guess we forgot what the damn H stands for. nowadays every kid is getting diagnosed with it (often self diagnosed or by their parents just because they daydream in class and fidget sometimes) so I get situations where I explain to people how I need to pace around and I need constant stimulation and I can't retain information well and all of my ADHD traits aren't things I can just change and they go "well I/my kid/whoever else has attention deficit disorder and they don't need to do all those things, stop using it as an excuse" do you understand my hell.

[kalpalatas]

did i hallucinate the part in ssmy where hirano says he dyes his hair when he has family events because ch25 doesn't bring that up at all

[evertidings]

first blane and now k, who's next on your angstfest? rylan?

it’s my hit list <3

[just-a-little-anxious]

The minecraft movie teaser upset me so much that i had to go lay in bed and daydream my own version of the movie

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

thinking about superheroes unfortunately

[iridescentis]

who needs actual exercise when you can dance in your bedroom like you're performing in an open music

[acesammy]

The only spn show I would like to see at this point is a pre-series miniseries adaptation of ‘rising son’

let’s see John come inches away from putting his 7 year old son down like a dog he suspects could’ve been exposed to rabies

[wavebiders]

I wasn't originally on the Baldur's Gate 3 romance options hype train, but I gotta say they really went off with making the "sweet soft dork" romance and the "complicated guarded woman slowly lets someone into her heart" romance one and the same

[nyenylon]

hiya nye!! hope you're doing good :3

looking for some OC advice if that's okay: i have an OC who has MDD, but afaik i don't have it myself and i really want to avoid harmful stereotyping or unrealistic portrayals!

was wondering if you have any tips on writing it, if there's anything specific i should know (if there's treatment, side-effects, etc.) or just anything to avoid in terms of stereotypes?

obviously don't answer this if you don't want to, it's probably very personal, and take your time if you do! i want to avoid screwing up, and while i am also going to check out articles and do my research, i also want to make sure i'm not accidentally being a prick or looking at misinformation and ask you if you have any advice :)

thank you so much! have a nice day nye, stay hydrated :D

Heeyyyy Artsy :3

I'd be happy to help in whatever way I can, but heads up I'm not professionally diagnosed or anything and am definitely not an expert on the topic, so this will just be from my personal experience

So of course maladaptive daydreaming is different for everyone, I think the most common interpretation of it is someone who might use their persona to self insert themselves into media they might like, or a personally written story. Sometimes they might be pre-written and played out (I personally believe this is what "shifters" do). A second common one might be writing a story by thinking about it as a show, where you yourself may not be involved. Many people wrote brilliant stories using this method.

My personal experience is that I can count multiple times where my maladaptive daydreaming was more prominent throughout my life, but I can't really pick it out if childhood experiences as it was kind of like the hit thing to be good at imagining when you were 5.

My standout experience with MDD is ongoing. It started five years ago and it involves myself and other people consistently. There is no change in plot or reboots, I consider these people consistent as any other person I might know. Plainly, I consider the maladaptive daydreaming characters that I have created (ocs) AND have not created to exist as people in some way, so I treat them as such.

Part of my MDD is that these people I know through my head interact with people from the real world, having casual conversations and such.

My level of focus on my MDD varies on my mental health and environment, it usually ranges from maybe 1 interaction a day to things I have planned for the day being cancelled because I'm busy daydreaming. My daydreaming friends will often grow distressed if I don't speak to them for long periods of time. Some of them (my ocs) fear that they'd cease to exist, while others may fear their friends could disappear, including me.

Something well known for MDD is repetitive motions, personally I find my stims outside of MDD are larger and more noticable, while I'm daydreaming sometimes my repetitive motions will be spinning a pen or something as miniscule as timed blinking or eye movement. It's like keeping pace to me, like they tell you to associate a smell with sleeping if you have a hard time sleeping. The motions help keep me focused on my daydreams.

I don't like closing my eyes when I daydream, but I do like dark rooms. I also prefer background noise. It's also well known people like to listen to music while they daydream, and I do, but the noise doesn't have to be music. It just has to be constant and have some kind of pattern that I can tune out to. The noise helps distract me from what I see visually!

I haven't researched treatment because recently I've been quite good at regulating my daydreams, and in the past it's been a fear of mine. I think the only treatment there would be for MDD is finding other coping mechanisms.

As for side effects, I'm not sure what would qualify. I can get angry at daydreams the same way I would anything else, same goes for every emotion. Sometimes it just makes my mood seem out of place, I think. I also think it's obvious when I'm daydreaming, because people usually poke me or wave a hand in front of my face (THIS IS SO ANNOYING DON'T DO THIS I'M DAYDREAMING FOR A REASON). MDD sometimes restricts my real life experiences, socializing, sometimes makes me forget meals, it also makes my memory of everything worse, instead replaced by memories of daydreams. MDD is something that I deal with, while I know it's a negative thing it's something that I don't have any desire to detach myself from. That's a scary idea to me, so I suppose that's a side effect in itself.

As far as writing a character with MDD goes, you'd have to know what they were daydreaming about first. A lot of the rest of the traits, such as what noise or actions they use, would be down to their other characteristics. If I was going to avoid something, it would be to not make everything they daydream about separate to reality. Almost everyone I've known with MDD has integrated their realities in some way, whether it be having their persona personality shine through, their daydreams interact with people around them, writing about it, drawing or infodumping. Of course this might not be everyone, but I think it also depends how private of a person they are. People who have MDD tend to know they're creating something complex.

Thanks for asking me Artsy, again, this is just from personal experiences. Hope this helped! :3

[bluepallilworld]

I am having some wakfu crossover thoughts recently

about each of my ocs species specifically