Or is my imagination too active?

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Is this normal? I'm often found 'in my own world', I zone out and live out imaginary situations.

I just saw a post on fb about a duckling. It then got me thinking about what if we had ducklings, I imagined how they would follow us about the house but eventually
we would put them outside. I then imagined their enclosure, and then saw the neighbours cat manage to get into the enclosure and get one of the ducklings
by the throat. I caught the cat and prised it's jaws open and flung it the side before assessing the damage to my precious duck.

So yea, that took about 5-10 seconds but it happens all the time about every situation you can imagine. DH travels a lot for work and the events I end up living out in my head are horrific (mainly involving a car or plane....)

My dream are also very vivid, and very literal.

Is this how everyone is??

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me too
I always have horrible thoughts about dh working snd regularly think about planning a funeral, telling the kids. Sometimes I lie in the floor crying when I'm told, sometimes I put the kettle on. I think about dating and kissing someone else for the first time. Hating it, loving it and feeling guilty. I think about being robbed when I'm in bed and hear a noise downstairs. if the kids are in my bed would we be safe, would the intruder come in and take me? rape me? take the children? or just one?
I regularly check the children are still in bed when I'm alone
I used to do it about fires as a child and kept 2 litre bottles of water everywhere incase I needed to soak a towel and put it by the door to stop the smoke coming in.
when I lived in a flT, for years I'd 'see' the children on the floor having fallen out. Same process, crying, screaming, sobbing, tea, throwing up. we were quite high so their bodies wouldn't be bodies and i always 'mourned' being about to run down and hold them. They would be smashed. its horrible and my heart takes a battering. I don't know how to get it to stop.

Same thing with only being a minute but i seem to have lived another life in that time. certainly have vivid dreams

No, I'm not like that at all. I can daydream but it's not very frequent and is usually because I want to zone out (eg on a train journey) and it never is unpleasant. I dream a lot while asleep but they seem to be vague collections of thoughts rather than vivid stories

At night I go out with friends in my imagination and have great adventures. I also own a couple of acres which I am growing various plants in with the front area having a caravan covered in fairy lights. There is also a lake, area for badgers food for animals etc and a thriving ecosystem. Because it’s imaginary my caravan (I’ve researched yhe rules and you can’t build permanent structures on farmland) has a glass roof so I can lie in my huge soft bed and watch the trees and rain and drift off. It’s incredibly detailed and this is the place I visit regularly in my imagination. Funny, because during the say I rush about from morning until late at night planning this and that and not having a moment to dream.

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So glad it's not just me .

I'm glad it's not me - some of what you've all said is so relatable! Especially about the kids - I've lived their funerals so many times in my head without realising it 😭

Google maladaptive daydreaming. I hadn't known before I read about it that everyone's minds didn't work this way.

I think when it's always bad stuff it could also be intrusive thoughts, in which case it's probably anxiety based and some relaxation techniques and/or a chat with your GP might be worth thinking about

@Jeremyspoke for me it often results in a bad ending - but not always

I've always been like this, when I was younger I'd often daydream another winning something (singing competition etc) and okay it all out in my head.

I've also always had very detailed dream that I am able to recall the next day - I always say I'm going to make a film out of some of them 🤣

Maladaptive Dreaming. I do this all the time, I have several other lives I lead in my head, some of them have been going on for years. I live alone and this really helped in lockdown because I could just 'go' into one of my other lives for hours. Some people are disturbed by it but I actually love that I can do this.

I don't have intrusive imagination but can easily daydream and also have vivid and heavily involved dream's.

Same, Ive played out a million road near miss accidents or potential tragedies and also the flights of fancy and intense dreams

One type of anti depressant have me 10 year long dreams
70 years later I was calling the dr crying begging not to take them again, a part of me still grieves a fictional child i had in one of those lives as their particularly traumatic death is as real to me as my own memories (although I am perfectly clear the child was fictional and part of a dream)