To ask what fantasy story you play in your head?

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Mine is dancing with a hot dancer in a Strictly type competition. Sometimes it’s just about dancing with a hot dancer, other times it’s about everyone I know watching me and thinking how fabulous I look and move. In reality I’m fat with two left feet dancing round the kitchen! Does anyone have a fantasy scenario in their head or am I the only saddo??!

I don’t know if this is really the same thing but I have an imaginary house that I go to in my mind. I’ve had it for decades. All the rooms are meticulously designed in my head to the last detail and it’s completely safe and far away from anyone else. I just hang out there sometimes, normally having a bath in my amazing indoor swimming pool sized bath with hundreds of magical bubble baths that do different things. So if I can’t sleep for example, I’ll go and have an imaginary bath with my magic sleeping potion bubble bath. That does look weird now I’ve written it down but it works and I love it. Other times I’ll sit in the little living room with the open fire and my little cat who died years ago, but who now lives there permanently. The only thing that changes about my imaginary house is the garden with the seasons (which is very low maintenance )

I'm a Victorian aristocrat. The nanny or nursery maid will bring the children down to the drawing room for inspection also washed and ready for bed.

I will also have a wardrobe full of dresses with bustles. Despite having 12 children I will have an 18Inch waist.

Oh, I’m terrible for this! Always daydreaming about whatever celebrity it is I have a crush on. At the moment it’s Robert Sheehan (those CURLS!)

Yes. M8nes ridiculous.

I become a super famous sexy glamourous performer, usually a singer. I do this in revenge for the sad reality of my husband leaving me for someone 20 years younger than me. (This happened a few months ago)
So in my fantasy I'm on every tv channel and I'm so hot gorgeous and talented All my songs I sing have a fuck you or revenge undertone to them and the press report on the scandal that my chubby cheating husband dumped me for someone mediocre albeit younger and ive morphed in to the hottest sex symbol known to life on earth . Everyone is shocked when they find my real age (48) because I'm so youthful looking. I bevomevthe face of Olay/L'oreal anti ageing cream. I'm on billboards and magazines.
Everyone we know thinks wow and my husband's bit of stuff he left me for feels wholly inadequate, my ex husband is desperate for recocilliation but I'm so famous and gorgeous I'm now dating Brad Pitt/Colin Firth/other gorgeous famous man and mixing with celebs I've no time for chubby ex husband.🤣😂🤣😂🤣

In reality I'm tone deaf and despite my heartbreak weight loss still on the chubby side, 5ft tall and at 48 can't move anything like I pretend I can in my fantasies. I'm also not visually 20 years younger like I am in my fantasy.

But my real life us utter shit right now and this escapism is wholly nuts but lifts my mood.

One in which I am loved rather than the reality of being a social outcast to be avoided at all costs.

I'm a famous singer and I'm on a chat show discussing the inspiration behind my songs and talking about my life. I like to go on Alan Carr or if I feel like chatting with other celebs I go on Graham Norton If I'm listening to music I of course oblige my fans with a performance of my latest hit while I'm there!

When I’m making the very boring dinner I pretend I’m nigella and being filmed in my super posh kitchen and 12 friends have randomly dropped by and I happen to have enough fancy food for everyone, happen to be wearing a fancy frock and happen to have fairy lights and wine at the ready

Yay not just me then. I have a few and they usually come in to play when I’m trying to get to sleep.
One is that I’m in service in the 1920s. Downton Abbey type situation.
Another is that I live in a forest and am self sufficient. (So far from anything I would be able to do in real life!).

@toffeekiwi Nobody “should be avoided at all costs”.

Oh god. I’m another maladaptive daydreamer. When it’s bad, I live far more in my head than in reality. Can find it difficult to maintain conversations as my thoughts are constantly somewhere else. Many different scenarios, usually involving me being completely kick-ass and untouchable.

I don’t think mine are maladaptive, as they don’t interfere with normal life. But I have long running daydreams that are a bit like picking up a book and reading a chapter now and then. Mine tend not to be luxurious or glamorous - more grit and challenge.

Oh yes, I have loads! Would be truly mortifying if anyone knew about them, but they make me happy running through my head as I drift off to sleep!

Nothing specific - something like making a speech,/ sensible explanation where those listening (who are people I respect) nod interestedly and congratulate me on my perspicacity .

In fact cannot speak publicly due to nerves and it would actually come out a garbled mumble.

I also have to carefully control my maladaptive daydreaming. Having two children has kept me in the real world more recently but I do crave the me time for a daydream. I also have snuck off for a 'nap' before but just wanted a dream.

Mine are based on a number of things, my earliest are based on real tv shows where I'm the lead character (usually male) and I make up new storylines for me and my fellow cast to playout. I would be mortified if people knew the level of obsession with one particular show. Fortunately I have diversified in recent years.

I also recently started a new one where I've won the lottery and the businesses I would start and who I would give money away to.

I also have about 3/4 running that are completely unique fantasy stories that I'm slowly turning into reality by writing them down.

My field is 3d design and im hoping to move into an game artist role. Some of my stories have strong visual themes that planning to use as a narrative themed portfolio of images to help me get back to work. (Currently have 8month old baby).

Settings for my stories are,

a Dickensian type misty canaled city. Our protagonist is an orphan who is gains an unusual power.

A desert town overlooking a dry sea, the residents live in homes carved from the rock.

A nation slowly being invaded by a powerful army over generations. The two sides have a kind of mental magic that both use indifferent ways offensively. Our main character is an iligitimate child of two people on different sides of the war, this means she gains elements of both sides if the magic.

Three worlds with different physics that feed on each other's energy in a cycle. energy consumption in one effects the others. Individuals in these worlds start to realise something is up and the story is the discovery of each other's worlds and their connection. Dark powers seek to use these energy for ill intend while draining other worlds of their energy.

I usually plonk some version of myself into what I'm reading or watching at the time in a minor, sidelines role.

Things like afternoon tea with Duckie from NCIS or a diplomat living on Deep Space Nine. I'm sometimes pivotal in changing storylines that I dislike.

My user name comes from my name as the cousin of Howland Reed in Game of Thrones. I have Mormount ancestry as well.

I love this. I have so many, in fact I also have to bring myself back to the real world too often. I do sometimes wonder how successful I'd be if I adopted some of my fantasy situations to my day to day life...

Being slimmer.
Currently eating healthy, yay.
But been struggling with my weight and self esteem for years.
Every night when I'm drifting off to sleep I imagine myself slim and strutting with confidence.

I play the dancing fantasy while I'm in the gym (I'm at least 15 years younger). Sometimes I dream at night if a man who's hopelessly in love with me - it's never really happened apart from with weirdos irl and I've definitely 'let myself go' so, fantasy romance it is. Occasionally I have a dream hangover and think about it on my way to work Let's face it, in these miserable times, we need all the happiness we can grasp.

Another maladaptive daydreamer here!

Mine is always a lottery win with various ways of spending the money. Lovely. Sometimes I have a browse of Right Move just before I have a nap so I can dream about my lovely new house.

All my fantasy stories are literal fantasy - set in worlds from games usually, but all quite Lord of the Rings-esque! I'm not even in them, but I have half a dozen characters I make up storylines for, full of romance and betrayal

Oh my god, I do this I have never met anyone else who admits to it!! I've always done it - I first remember making up stories in my head about my favourite toy range aged 4. I remember thinking it was a great game as no-one knew I was playing it and I didn't have to tidy it up when I was done and could take it anywhere. 30 years on I'm still at it, only now it's a story based in the Star Trek universe and my characters have rather graphic lives sometimes I'm not even in it!

The internal soap opera has helped me to process quite a lot of interactions, I think - I pick something I've seen during the day and put my characters through it, or a version of it, creating dialogue, drama etc. I love it

Mine tend to be heroic ones - rescuing children from burning buildings/ledges in ways seen only on ridiculous action films. Everyone watching on live tv news. Then having the press camp out outside my house, being a guest on breakfast TV, meeting the queen to be given an award for my bravery.

In real life I'm an avowed introvert and I'd hate all that attention. I also nearly threw up doing Go Ape with my teenager a few weeks ago so I don't think I'd be much good at the heroism either!

Lottery win.

Always a lottery win.

I have lots of these worlds built up and visit them most days.

I love Abed's Dreamatorium in Community, its the closest thing I've seen representing this sort of thing on TV.

ContessaDiPulpo I'm glad to be the first to admit it (though not in real life )
I agree it definitely helps me cope with real life things, although I'm not half as melodramatic as the storylines in my mind become

@Patienceisvirtuous

Oh yes. Things like not telling anyone I’m auditioning the appearing on X Factor ad delivering an amazing powerhouse performance 🤣🤣🤣

Or living in a country cabin with someone mega hot like Jamie Dornan - no work, no disturbances, just me and him madly in love, lying on a big bed with a fire crackling laughing, snogging etc

Oh I LOVE a good daydream

Jamie Dornan seems to be making frequent appearances in my daydreams too

I wish I never watched The Fall as mortal men seem severely lacking by comparison.