Things you're doing in your life right now that would sound bonkers if you told anyone, but make sense to you....

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I'm currently stalking a man in my neighbourhood because I love his dog. I've bumped into this man and his dog twice. I've started going out at the same-ish time and walking the same-ish route in the hopes of meeting him his dog

I have a whole imaginary world in my head where I'm a former supermodel now living a quiet life in the countryside. When I'm pottering around doing household chores, I pretend Louis Theroux is following me asking me probing questions about my tough childhood and stratospherically successful career.

I plan retirement every single day. I model different scenarios with different levels of income. I look at properties in retirement communities a lot. I'm 40.

I would never say these things out loud to another human because they make me sound absolutely bonkers. But there it is.
Tell me your weirdness that you could never verbalise...

I plan for the zombie apocalypse. I imagine I was a settler in the American West, and how I would have preserved food and prepared for the cold winters. I plan murder stories, and imagine how to dispose of bodies, or commit the perfect locked room murder. I spend a lot of imagination time in lovely bars in exotic parts of the world, or swinging in hammocks amongst palm trees.

Ok, this is a real one, like OPs. It is more of a confession and I've never 'fessed up before. I can not bear the selfishness of people who choose to mark really beautiful, rural spots that are enjoyed by the wider public with their own mementos, particularly if they are made of plastic. I have removed baubles and fairy doors from trees and once I went back with my screwdriver and removed a perspex covered 'message' to a deceased person that had been permanently attached to a tree trunk. I don't do this in suburban areas and I do leave painted stones and wrapped bouquets in the countryside even though they irk me. I've also pulled up non-native/garden variety plants transplanted to wild flower settings as memorials. I appreciate children like to play and grief is difficult to carry but I don't think this is the way to do it.

I bought a new (to me) car two weeks ago but am already looking for something else as this one's too small. Everyone thinks I love my new car but I don't and I'm starting to actively dislike it.

I imagine I have magical powers that I can only use at night when everyone is asleep. With one of my power, I can fill up the ground floor house with 💩 of someone I really don’t like …it makes me smile 😂

DreamingOfGeneHunt I've been planning apocalyptic survival scenarios ever since I watched "Threads" as a teenager.

Enjoy the wine!

Oh Laiste I love it!

My falling asleep fantasy is being on a panel at Hay. I’m wearing a red print maxi dress and drinking a spritz. It’s very specific.

I think we all do that 🤣

When I'm out running, I'm always on the look out for places I can survive in secret if I'm on the run from the police.

I plan for my homelessness. I once asked a friend where she would go, were she homeless, and she couldn’t imagine it- just kept saying, but I won’t ever be.

I’m going to camp by a good motorway services, like Tebay. The bins will be full of nice food they haven’t sold, and there are shower facilities. The surrounding countryside is nice too.

I'm unable to work due to being disabled/chronic illness. I've started a YouTube channel about sewing in the hope of eventually getting an income from it and things connected to it. Pie in th sky, perhaps but I'm enjoying doing it and have had some positive feed back. The best of that was from the company that designed one of the bags I made. There were lots of people talking about it but nobody had done a video of making it.
I've done 7 videos so far.

Yes, that's mine.

Also I walk to work and on the way I imagine my daily entry for the What Are You Wearing Today thread. Except in my head I'm walking to my job through Plaka in Athens so my outfit is totally different from what I'm actually wearing in English suburbia...

I'm obsessed with all things rural and since getting my woodburner, I imagine I'm working hard on a farm whilst I gather my winter fuel, dogs by my side. I have an almost constant urge to start a smallholding but know I am not fit enough now. My mental dalliances with animals and wanting to rescue a few more, never leaves me. Im desperate for more chickens and absolutely have to learn to hatch a few when my first grandchild arrives (not even conceived or talked about yet)! Have spent the summer since I moved semi rurally, looking incessantly for land so I can spend days foraging and hanging about with my dogs in my campevan. My Ddogs have a good life 😊

Sounds like an earthly paradiise, I want to live there

Wonderful thread- love! going to read it all ❤️
Apart from the stories I make about myself (for my own benefit) - sadly most involving having millions 😢 , I also build whole histories and lives about neighbours and people at work I hardly know or people on public transport I don’t know at all - all based on very little indeed. Difference is, I sometimes tell other people these tales forgetting how little basis in real life they have😳 Oh well

To go to sleep I imagine all the houses I have ever lived in and plan the renovations that I wasn't able to do because a) I lived in that house when I was 8 or b) I rented or c) having bought the house I had no money.

Now, this I can get behind! I have not daydreamed as such since I was a very introverted teenager planning my future. But this is exactly the life I was anticipating.

I reguarly look for boats for sale, we don't live near water and its a pointless activity.. i am planning to buy a metal detector, been planning it for ages. And go metal detecting as a hobby.havent bought one yet though.

Whatever book I am reading I imagine what I would do if I was in that particular story, I even have a mental dialogue with myself in the style of lthe language of the book. I really "live" what I am currently reading. My other mad thing is pretending I am best mates with Keith Richards, we have a decades long friendship and while our wild days are behind us we love to reminsice about the debauched years. I did thave quite a wild youth but very much doubt I could have kept up with Keef. 💀

I love this thread, some of these responses are so funny. I have a couple I can think of.

Firstly, when I get to a set of traffic lights and the light turns green I always say aloud 'thank you traffic light gods'. And if the light turns red just as I get there I say 'don't worry Mr traffic light you're only doing your job'. I thought I only did it when I was alone, but recently forgot my son was in the car with me, so that was rather embarrassing when he asked me why I was speaking to traffic lights.

Secondly, if I'm struggling to fall asleep at night I take all the covers and pillows off my bed and throw them on the floor. I lie on my bed without them and imagine that I am a homeless person who has just been given a bed for the night. I imagine how grateful I'd be if this really happened. Then I treat myself to one pillow, then slowly allow myself to get different items back off the floor. By the time I've got everything back in place, I'm so happy to have a warm, comfy bed and a roof over my head I fall asleep within minutes. I've done this since I was a child.

I regularly play this game in places like garden centres where the clothes aren’t so stylish where I imagine I can only shop there for the rest of my life. Then I go around planning imaginary outfits for different scenarios like going to work, to a wedding, meeting particularly stylish friends.

I’m morbid as fuck. I don’t really read books but my nighttime reading consists of:

• NHS independent patient safety investigations
• NSPCC recently published case reviews
• NMC & GMC strike off and suspension hearings
• Tribunal hearings

If I told anyone in real life I’d be worried they think I’m a weirdo 🤣

It's only since joining MN that I've discovered that so many people have such imaginations and rich inner lives. It's astonishing to me, and impressive in equal measure.