#immersive daydreamer

[ladycatashtrophe]

I know many people need their silly little scenario time before bed to fall asleep at night, but I for one also require a decent amount of immersive-daydreaming-time immediately upon awakening to fortify my soul for the day and that's why I'm an English major.

[maddvent]

Day #1

Open the calendar..!

Which of your paras begins singing Christmas songs on the first day of December? Which is their favorite song to sing?

Create some art, write something, or just answer the questions!

[foleys-help-blog]

Tips for handling a daydream block

It happens to all of us at some point, and it sucks. here are some tips on how to deal with it from my experience.

There can be different or causes to it. First, you have too many thoughts. Whether it's because you have a lot on your mind, because you're stressed, or whatever other reason, if your brain is too full, it can be hard to daydream. Second possibility: your brain feels exhausted, empty. You're tired and it's hard to think, period. Third, you're just out of ideas!

✦ If you can and like to meditate, meditation is one of the best ways to calm down your thoughts and give your brain some respite.

✦ Napping can help rest too! Depending on the person, this might not help if you're in the first case though - I know it doesn't for me for example.

✦ If you lack ideas, look up some prompts, or maybe get into a new series or book! You need to feed your creativity, along with letting it rest.

✦ Do something else! Go for a walk, do some coloring, try a new art form, change up your habits! This can both help you get inspired and rest your creative muscles.

✦ Chat with other daydreamers! Whether it's gushing or venting, not feeling alone is a great help in feeling better

Now, while those are great to help getting out of a slump, sometimes only time will truly get rid of the block. In the meantime, there are ways you can stay connected to your paras and paracosms!

✦Make playlists your paras would listen to ✦Make moodboards ✦If you've written or drawn things related to your daydreamns, look at those ✦Make your paras a list of books they've read, would like to read, would dislike, etc! This can work with hobbies, movies, cartoons, food,… ✦Create a timetable of a typical work/school day of your para if it applies ✦Make jewelry for your paras; you can wear it to feel like they are with you or to think of them. ✦Make collages or art inspired by your paras, paracosms and daydreams! It can be super abstract! ✦Create outfit boards for your paras ✦Make memes about your paracosm ✦Try a meal or snack your paras would like! ✦Fill in personality quizzes as if you were your paras

Rest well, and happy daydreaming friends! 🪁🌟🫧

[funnier-as-a-daydreamer]

Welcome to funnier-as-a-daydreamer!

This is a blog for things that are not necessarily related to daydreaming, but are funnier with the context of being a maladaptive/immersive daydreamer. While I personally have MaDD, immersive daydreamers are allowed too!

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, immersive daydreaming is when you have really intense, detailed daydreams with complicated plotlines, mental worlds (known as paracosms), and reoccurring characters (known as paras). Maladaptive daydreaming, often shortened to MaDD, is when immersive daydreaming goes wrong and it begins affecting your work/school, social life, hobbies, or mental/emotional health negatively. You can learn more about MaDD by looking at @madd-information's profile, or you can check out this doc by @acircusfullofdemons for more general info on both immersive and maladaptive daydreaming.

My other daydreaming blog is @neuronarrator, which I made in 2022 to talk about my paras and paracosms. If you're interested in that, go follow me over there too. I'm the only mod on this blog so far, although that may change if this blog gets popular enough. I use any pronouns :)

[kaotikai]

Yes, I am a shapeshifting creature with glowing eyes and claws and sharp fangs and joints that don't quite bend the right way. Yes I am very goofy and silly and soft. Fight me. Actually don't-

[imstilldaydreaming]

why do my paras realise things about myself before me HSKSHSKSJS

I am noticing a pattern of paras becoming more fleshed out and realistic with time, me thinking "oh this sounds a lot like [thing]" and then realising that oh... I experience the thing...

[fallingmaddlyinlove]

i just realized that no matter how many friends i have or how i close i am to people, i will always feel empty without my daydreams. it's too much of a part of me now. i could never let go of them entirely. i would lose too much of myself.

[heartofdaydreams]

My daydreaming is starting to feel more immersive with some maladaptive tendencies rather than fully maladaptive /pos

[nebulabasket]

Introduction

We are The Nebula Basket Party (collective/system). We collectively use they/them. We are a dreamway collective. Bodily and on average we are in our mid 20's. Most of us are nonbinary and aroace. Several of us are nonhuman, alterhuman, alterbeing, and such. There's 15 of us total, but some will likely be more active than others.

We're not exactly sure what exactly we plan to do here, but we plan to post on occasion. We plan to use this as a space to be openly ourselves, both as a party and as individuals.

Cyannide Lolypop 🍭 (vey/ven/vims + neos/they) is the host and will likely be active most often.

Anonymous Cryptid 🥀 (they/he/x/ze/she) is the party spokesperson apparently and will, in most cases, speak as a representative for the entire party (that's me).

Crow 🌘 (he/they/rem/sin + neos), Lisianthus 🍃 (they/he/she), and Fresh Snow 🎹 (he/him) seem to be frequent fronters as of now.

Our individual personal side blogs (wip):

🍭 @cyannidelolypop

🌈 @glowingshiningbright

🌊 @cyantide

🍃 @littlepinklisianthus

👡 @ultravioletloveheart

🐸 @gummyfroggy

❄ @antarcticice

🪦 @specterwarden

👻 @grinningsoulreaper

🥀 @anonymouswingedcryptid

🗝 @zeronullzero

🌘 @gaurdiancrow

🌠 @starprincedragon

🎹 @coolfreshsnow

Their intended purpose is for all of us to have a place to exist as seperate individuals for personal reasons mostly.

🔥 @burninginfernowraith

💎 @radiantmoonlightmajesty

[daydream-ideas]

Daydream about lying in bed with your imaginary beloved and listening to the rain.

[maddvent]

Welcome to the MADDvent Calendar!

RULES HERE

This is an event run by @citiesonjupiter that will take place throughout December 2024, in the lead up to Christmas. It's essentially just an advent calendar for maladaptive* daydreamers, where every day up to the 25th, we'll post a prompt for a para, paracosm, or some sort of scenario. You can do what you want with the prompt — write, create some art, music, or even just ramble a little bit! Whatever your heart desires!

Submissions are very much welcome, you can send them in via the wishlist (ask box), or to the submissions page. I will deal with any final post formatting, so no need to worry about that in your submission. Any unused prompts may be posted after the event, or saved for next year, depending on the turnout of this event.

*This event was aimed at the MADD community, but anyone is welcome to join in of course! Whether you're immersive, casual, or anything else, you are welcome here.

[ceps-pers]

💭 Daydreaming Questions 💭

⏳How long have you been daydreaming for? What was your first scenario/paracosm? I've daydreamed for as long as i can remember. I dreamt of balls with characters i loved, i dreamt of going to magical schools (not Hogwarts, i hadn't yet discovered it), i dreamt of adventures fighting the shadows of the world and of being a lost boy. The In-Between though, dates back to the begining of me writing. In primary school, we had a personal notebook for when we were bored, and i started making my own world in it. That's the very beginning of the paracosm i still hold onto.

❓Would you rather: have your daydreams projected onto a screen attached to your head at all times or be entirely unable to daydream ever again for the rest of your life? The screen! It's not maladaptive anymore, so it wouldn't pop up anywhere anytime. Plus, it's be nice providing free movies for people i love and trust! And maybe i could use the screen like a movie director, and record it to make my own little movies! It's certainly be easier than trying to write it all down!

🪞 What para of your is most like you? Paraselves/self-inserts don't count! Probably a mix of Viaris and Lilly! I'm very artistic and jittery and flamboyant like Vi but also when I was younger I was literally a younger version of Lilly (didn't notice at the time-)

🏷️ How do you come up with names? Do they come to you or do you spend hours on websites? Sometimes they come to me, but it's quite rare! Most often I look at generators or websites until one rings right! For the main cast for example, Viaris came to me, the others i had to look.

🗺️ Do you do extensive worldbuilding for your paracosm? If so, what are some of your favorite elements? I do! I'm currently trying to sort that information and write it down actually! I coudn't really choose favorites right now though to be honest

🪽 If your paras found out you were their creator, how would they react? Viaris: Step 1: existential crisis. Step 2: dang that's cool, someone made me, so I have to be wanted! (yes he needs therapy) Nikolas: That boy would never be the same. His entire view on reality and purpose would be shattered. Lilly: Freaked out. As in, why the fuck would the equivalent of a god be so close to its creation, this feels parasocial Brue: Probably would find me a bit lame/weird for having that as a solution, but would do her best for me to feel supported Harvel: Would feel like he just got out of the cave from Plato's allegory. Would think they're taking it well, they're not, they're having an existential crisis.

🦦 If you have a self insert/paraself, how similar are they to you? Pretty similar! Braver, more reckless. And, well..; not stuck in a static human body-

🕐 Is there any time of the day where you can't/don't daydream? The morning! It can't be the first thing I do after making my coffee- however I can write about it first thing in the morning, just not daydream in itself for some reason. I think it's because I love calm chill mornings so much and even if my daydreams are chill/slice of life sometimes, I move a lot when I daydream, so it doesn't really fit the vibe X)

📜 Are your daydreams linear and structured, or do you jump all over the place? Pretty structured! The jumps are more of a "in the meantime, with X character(s)" kind of thing, but even if there's flashbacks and all it's pretty linear and organised despite me improvising the whole time

🎶 What's a song you've been daydreaming to lately, and what's your favorite moment in said daydream? I've been daydreaming to "Labour - the cacophony" by Paris Paloma. Always for revolts of opressed people, often queer (or queer coded) or feminine people (like the fae or shapeshifters) That song and the feminine rage I feel while listening make me shiver everytime, it's such a powerful song

🐣 Do your paras age with you, or are their ages static? They age with me! And we have a whole history together, we grew up together pretty much! When I include fictionnal characters that I got to know younger, they aged with me too. I don't really think about it much, but if I met them for example 3 years ago, they're aged too since then.

🚀If you had the opportunity to leave this world and live in your paracosm forever, would you? Why or why not? I'm very torn, because this world and these people have been with me for around 10 years, b ut I've found great people in this verse and I'd feel bad abandoning them… I'd rather just float in between them, since the in-between is linked to all worlds theoretically.

🏃 Do you move a lot when daydreaming, and if so, in what ways? I walk (unless I'm in a moving vehicule, as the world already moves around me) and gesticulate a lot, as well as make faces and mouth things.

🎬 Have you ever wanted to make a piece of media of your paracosm (comic, animation, visual novel, novel, tv show, etc.)? I'd love for an animated series and a book series to be made!! But also I could never look at any criticism, not matter how constructive and kind, because it's too much of my baby

💫 When you actively want to start daydreaming, what is your mind's process? I'll look at fanarts and tropes and stuff I like on Tumblr or Youtube, put on some music, and usually it comes easy like this!

👻 Do you ever daydream about yourself (not a self insert, just you)? Yes, but mot in the usual way I daydream. It's more when I'm bored waiting, or even lost in my thoughts, where I'll daydream about what I'll do the next day, or when/if I get my dream cottage, what would my day be like, stuff like that. I don't move, I just sit back, and music isn't necessary for those.

🧱 When you experience a daydream block or crash, what are things you do to try and fix it (or ways you cope)? Consume series, books, movies, animatics, etc, anything that I love and inspire me! I don't usually look at prompts or tropes like usual though. And if it's still blocking, I'll try to discover a new thing I'll love, and that usually gets me out of it. Otherwise, now that it isn't maladaptive anymore, I just do other things (even if I miss my paras, they'll be there when I'm unblocked ❣️)

📖 For fictparacosms, do your daydreams affect how you perceive the media and/or the fandom? The In-Between being in between worlds, I sometimes mix it with some characters and worlds from things I like, so while it's not quite a fictparacosm, I'm still answering this ^^ Yes it does. I'll usually seperate my version and the canon one, as like, an alternate timeline yk? That's the best way I've found, as that way I can enjoy both my daydreams and the source, no matter how different or what happens!

💅 If you have tried to make your paras in character makers (picrew, meiker, etc), what is an aspect of your para that these makers never/rarely have? The colorful glowing tattoos the Bitweenians get when they get "adopted" by the in-between!! There's sometimes tattoos, but they're always in back ink TwT Still looks good, but not quite my vision

👁️ Are your daydreams clear in your mind's eye? Yes! Like a movie/series! Sometimes animated, sometimes live-action!

[kaotikai]

Lowkey thinking of making either a tumblr community or a discord server for xenreves/alterhuman daydreamers 🤔

[future-journalist-adventures]

flash fiction??

ok so i daydream a lot and i've been thinking for months now that i might like to write about them. I also like to think about how I would write a descriptive scene to describe a moment I'm currently experiencing as a way to hype myself up when I feel weird or bad.

All of this to say that if i were to write these experiences/daydreams down, i would do that here. I wouldn't have a consistent schedule; I would just write them whenever I have an experience that was extra moving or whatever. What do yall think?

(I'll wait to start writing until the poll ends so i can gauge how large of an audience i'd be writing for)

[fallingmaddlyinlove]

idk if this is a rude question to ask but how do you daydream? ive been wanting to get into immersive daydreaming but it just…hasn’t!! been working!! i have a very hyperactive mind and i do daydream but it just doesn’t feel,,real enough…? IDK!!! WAAAHHHH —🍇

sorry it took me a while to respond! i guess it's hard to answer, because my daydreaming came so naturally to me. most of my daydreaming is tied in with dissociation, so it is also hard to control.

this might be the most obvious and dumb advice, but try listening to music and thinking of your favorite scenes. listening to music is always the most immersive experience for me at least. try to really think about what scenarios you would love to see yourself/your characters in. it's about channeling whatever emotions your feeling at the moment in my experience. my feelings really control what happens in my daydreams lol.

i hope this is at least a little helpful lol.

anyone is free to reblog and add to this!