Anyone else do weird stuff they wouldn't admit to in real life?

[Lorddenning1]

Go easy on me, I know MN can be a hostile time at the minute,,,,
I am currently obsessed with The Handmaids Tale, cant stop watching the series on Prime, and I was lying in the bath having a soak and I started to mimic the lead characters facial movements, and then I though since I have been watching it, I pretend I'm in it, pretending that I am also an oppressed woman and answer to men only etc, is this weird?

I do this with other things like books or other series, it doesn't affect my life, in a crazy way but more like a day dream sort of way and when the kids ask for a snack, i snap out of it. Am I the only weirdo around here, or do have weird things you do that you would never admit to in real life or do I need some professional help :)

I pretend to be a horse when I’m out walking, sometimes I do big steps over the cracks in the pavement and pretend I’m in the Grand National.

I also imagine the Crimewatch voiceover in my head as I’m walking along, as if it’s a reconstruction of my kidnapping or murder.

Tip of the iceberg though. I’m reassured to see so many other weirdlings here.

My weird things along these lines are:

• Also the disaster plan thing. When I’m in a theatre/ concert venue, I note my nearest fire exit and make a plan, plus back-up plans, on how I’d get out it there was a fire/ crowd crush/ terrorist attack. When I was teaching, I’d plan different scenarios for protecting the class during a school shooting (and I live in the UK, so always thought that was an irrational thought process... until someone actually once turned up claiming he had a gun and was going to shoot up the school!)

• Linked to that, I often imagine that I’m about to go missing and/or murdered and these are my last moments. I wonder where the nearest cameras are, what the footage will look like on Crimewatch, what the person I’ve just walked past will give as their statement, what my husband will tell the police (because of course he’ll be the prime suspect!) I wonder who the suspects would be, which people in my life the police would interview, what they’d say to the media. I often ask my husband to tell me exactly how he’d describe me to the press if I died in a highly-publicised event but he doesn’t appreciate my curiosity so he won’t play along properly.

• I pretend I’m on This Morning/ Piers Morgan’s Life Stories and I’m being interviewed about my life. And I act the interview out loud

• I constantly talk to an imaginary audience. Watching Fleabag for the first time was a revelation because that’s exactly how I’ve been for as long as I can remember: giving an invisible audience background context about my life.

• My lottery house annoyance is that I have two living rooms: a big one for summer and a smaller, cosier one for winter. But the big one has the real fireplace. I’d need to get one built into my winter room and that’ll be a right pain. And I don’t want to switch the rooms because the big one will seem to cold in winter and the small one too claustrophobic in summer

Oh and I also sometimes imagine that my whole life is a figment of my imagination and I’m actually acting everything out while I’m in some sort of mental health hospital

@Lorddenning1 sorry to hear about that, it does make you wonder what a psychiatrist would think if they knew what went on inside our heads!

Just thought of another one when I’m in bed I like to curl my toes round the pole at the end of my bed frame and pretend I’m either a fruit bat hanging upside down or sometimes an owl on a perch. Also when I have a nap with my toddler and we’re all curled up I like to imagine I’m a fox and she my cub and we’re hibernating for winter, I particularly liked this when she was still breastfeeding

I'm almost constantly daydreaming that I'm this super rich, successful person with an amazing wardrobe and house. If no one's around I just act it out although sometimes get a bit carried away and start talking out loud on a walk or something – it's been going on for years and years, I've been all sorts of people.

A real life one – last time I went to a hotel it was this amazing Manor House in the middle of nowhere and there was only one other guest who I didn't see the entire time and virtually no staff so I spent the entire day pretending I was a lady of the manor and I even started skipping down the halls at one point.. I'm in my 30s.

@Kimblebee19 I get backgrounds during sex too!! I thought it was just me!

@Lactarius

When I'm on my bike and vehicles pass me I recite the reg number to myself using the NATO phonetic alphabet.

I often imagine how I would conduct a spree killing/mass murder - who would I target first, where would I place explosives, my escape route. Normal sort of stuff like that

Oh my god, I do that too. I also sometimes read everything in the phonetic alphabet as fast as I can to show off to myself about how clever I am.

I also type really fast, but as soon as I think gosh I'm fast at typing, I instantly start making loads of typos. You've got to notice fast so you can get the satisfaction.

Oh God, I thought of more! A lot of time travel stuff: what would I do if I woke up in 2005 (it’s always 2005)? Or what if I woke up and it was 2020 but I believed it was still 2005 and had no idea where I was? Or what if I woke up in the morning and it was 2040? Or what if I went right back to the 50s- I’ve decided I’d have to find my grandparents and somehow try to convince them I’m their future granddaughter.

I also plan how I would go missing without anyone finding me. Where I would go, how I’d get there, how I’d survive. I’ve thought of diversion tactics and red herrings to throw people off the scent. I have no desire to go missing!

If I was a ghost, what would I do? Sometimes I think of vengeful things, like acting as a poltergeist to people who don’t like me. Other times I float around people when they get the news I’m dead so I can see how they react. Of course I’m at my own funeral too.

Even though I think about death a lot, I can’t imagine what would happen if my loved ones died. Sometimes I start to but then I worry that I’ll somehow make it happen so I have to quickly stop and erase my memory.

I have an alternative reality where I am slim and can wear any clothes I like. I hope to try that for real one day 😂
A long time thing when I was young was where I was a member of the crew on the Next Generation Enterprise. It was amazing and there was more than a little spark between myself and Jean Luc!

I slip into characters in rl.
People don’t seem to notice unless they like what I like.
So I regularly answer how someone from friends would answer a question or comment.
I can often be heard being Monica “I know!” Or “nooooo”!

Currently I am OBSESSED with Schitts creek so I often answer aka Moira “Bebe”s chamber” & have adopted David’s “so” & “ok” mannerisms ,or Alexis tapping and saying hi or “live that for you”.

Also Friday night dinner...”you look nice...” aka Jim and my favourite swear words at the moment is of course “shit on it”.

Only people who REALLY get it get it, I’ve met one person who got me.
Is that weird? It’s harmless, it’s my own world.

I want to know @allImissmoominmama 's big cat attack plan? Rocket boots...worlds longest garden hose...pocketful of catnip toys to fling in opposite direction?

I talk out loud to myself as if I'm talking to someone real !! It helps me process things on my mind better weird I know!! I don't do it in public by the way.

Another one here with a background for sex! My backgrounds are generally the same each time but include a particular roundabout and roads in our city. I think I 'travel' a journey as the feelings progress and told DH last night as I read this thread and he looked genuinely disturbed and kept saying how weird it was.

I imagine myself living in tiny small spaces like a cupboard - where I'd sleep and store my stuff. Or in my office at work. Where I'd put my sleeping bag, how I'd wash.

Often imagine myself timetravelling to Tudor or Medieval periods and everyone being amazed at my beauty compared to the standard they're used to e.g. I have all my own teeth and smell really clean, use deodorant etc.

I find being lost and disorientated weirdly thrilling (in a "safe" situation), because normally I'm very grounded, know where I am, and have a strong sense of direction. I love water slides which are enclosed, and completely dark. As a child, I loved being spun for blind man's buff, and to pin the tail on the donkey. As an adult, I love mazes, and soon after entering one, I'll spin round with my eyes closed to get myself lost. I feel envious of fictional characters who are taken somewhere with their eyes covered, and I read that the actress who played Lucy in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was blindfolded before being taken to "Narnia", so that her reactions would be genuine: I wish I was her!!!! Sometimes I've got my DH to take me to a mystery destination, to see how long it is before I can work out where I am.

My DH does not share this love of being lost, although there's one time of year I get to cover his eyes: the Easter Egg hunt, for which he is blindfolded, for my amusement. He has to find his eggs by feel, and any he fails to find, I get to eat!

This is actually called something, it is actually a "thing". There was a thread on mums net before, will see if i have a link.

Ah, Maladaptive Daydreaming, its called!

medium.com/invisible-illness/maladaptive-daydreaming-32ef63f534fd

I had it very badly as a child, very shy and just lived in my own world. Now I just use it to go to sleep (a comfort thing).

I interview myself and pretend I'm someone famous and answer the questions. Ha ha.

I pretend I have a parallel universe where everything is perfect.

I also have the crimestoppers thing if I walk somewhere alone and get creeped out.

I'm very similar to you op! I get quite obsessed about a film or series and feel really drawn into it for a time, it always passes but during it it's always very intense! I enjoy it, it doesn't cause any issues, it's my brains way of going on holiday for a while, into another world. Escapism I suppose.

well I have loved reading all your responses, I nearly didn't post anything in case I got attacked for being really weird, its seems to me we all have our own ways of dealing with the reality, and its harmless and also fun :) i posted my weird things at first but then as you all added yours, i do lots of them too haha.
i realised that i did a lot of daydreaming when i was unhappy, I imagined my life was so much better and i had a better house and a different partner and everything was so much better, but I am no longer with my ex, who upped and left me with 2 children to raise, and now im so much happier that i dont day dream as much :) putting aside my acting role in Handsmaid Tale of course.

I think we're all a bit "weird" some people are just better at hiding it

It's quite nice to know we do this.

Putting all laughter aside is this literally a coping mechanism that all humans have. Because let's face it life is boring if you have not got the confidence,money, looks or brains to be what you wish you could be.

In real life I'm this girl who's confident to chat to people. I am warm and want to help people. But I don't like being center of attention. I have regrets like I gave up trying to drive. I didn't push to work in nursing because I hadn't been pushed to my best potientel. I grew up with parents who lacked in confidence in some areas. They went to the pubs but that seemed to be it. So I didn't get much experience as a kid.

So now I'm an adult I've pushed myself to try and do more. Especially in regards to my kids. But I think my fantasy world is linked to how I feel deep down. Because in all my made up stories I don't ever have parents. I'm always involved with someone. Married to someone or whatever and I'm always the girl without the family. I have one fantasy where I married a gypsy man who's gorgeous. He adores me and we have this passionate sex life but we argue alot. I have no idea why I like this fantasy. It's hilarious really. Because I am not bad ass enough to be with a bad boy. But you can be anything you want in a dream lol.

I have always created imaginary lives for dolls and teddies and other toys. I do all of their voices, their different personalities and temperaments, their relationships with each other and with me and DS and DD. It's so much fun and the DC love it, although they're getting a bit too old for it now (but I'm not!)

I do the maladaptive daydreaming thing too, especially when trying to sleep. Not so much since smart phones and always having a distraction/something to do on me (I'm not bored as often?). I did it the most in school, zoning out during boring lessons or if I'd already finished my work and had to wait on class mates.

My current fantasy is a little magical island, where I'm a witch and a princess (because being Queen would be too much effort, my mother who lives far far away on the other side of the Island has that job). I even have a section on Pinterest for it now (fantasy/magical pins, old castles, fairies, mermaids etc).

I also like daydreaming about fighting bad guys (and people I don't like in general)/crime/doing heroic deeds now and again still. Usually while having a shower.

Tsunami planning in my head.... I live on the coast but reckon we will be ok due to the geographical area and what not...

Also fires. Should have gone with the concrete staircase but anyway