Page 5 | Do you sometimes pretend for fun?

PixieLaLa · 15/08/2022 23:42

I pretend that my chihuahua pup is really a large breed dog and I'm a giant.
I also pretend that thunder claps are tyrannosaurus rex foot steps a la Jurassic Park

Love this 😂

BobMortimersPocketMeat · 15/08/2022 23:50

AuntMasha · 15/08/2022 15:55

Honestly thought I was the only person in the world daft enough to do this! I often pretend to be Kim from HCIYH when doing the housework and Nigella Lawson, when cooking. I have never had a diagnosis but I do fit many of the adhd criteria. I’m also highly synaesthetic.

I also present a cooking show as I prep dinner. I have synasthesia too, and was discussing with someone this very day that I think I might have ADHD. It’s a weird world.

Bunnyfuller · 16/08/2022 00:04

When I peel potatoes I pretend I am some alien species taking over and destroying continents (the peel being the continents). I imagine their news headlines as I make my relentless advance with a final quiet announcement of complete defeat.

Going to sleep I like to imagine I’m sat just on the edge of a wood, looking down a field, no tent or shelter, just laying on the ground. Or in a spaceship on an alien planet, which has wild, cold weather.

if I’m in the car alone, and singing to the music I imagine I’m driving some important chaps from work who I would have a crush on if I had the energy, and they’re astounded by my amazing voice. And driving skills, obvs.

sometimes, to help me sleep I imagine there’s some terrible catastrophe, disease or something, and aliens (yes, them again!) have landed, and it turns out some of us (me, obvs!) are actually aliens ourselves, and have been given lovely individual sleeping areas, whilst humans are all shoved in a big hall, namely a few humans who I’ve had bad treatment from in the past.

do I get a weird badge?!

Daisybuttercup12345 · 16/08/2022 00:06

How bizarre. I haven't pretended since I was about ten, unless playing make believe with the kids. Very strange.

Neverendingdust · 16/08/2022 00:08

OP I do full on concerts in my bathroom (I have 2 fully mirrored walls and excellent lighting for them) it’s like a proper intensive workout when I have a good set list, everyone from Queen to Tina Turner, ABBA to Beyoncé.

Hawkins001 · 16/08/2022 00:23

Mrsphilmiller · 15/08/2022 14:24

For instance, if you work in retail, do you pretend you actually work in a hospital and get your tasks done pretending they’re something hospital related?
Another example could be what I was just doing. Cleaning my living/kitchen area, but I was pretending I’m working in a restaurant and getting ready for a busy dinner service.

does anybody else pretend or am I a weirdo? 😵‍💫

That I'm a product of the intelligence services or military operations, and I never know who is who, so therefore everyone is a possible spook, etc.

redfairy · 16/08/2022 00:23

When I drive into the city where I work I imagine I'm driving through a beautiful Meditteranean landscape.

Hawkins001 · 16/08/2022 00:25

That and I'm also very odd and strange.

Hawkins001 · 16/08/2022 00:27

I do sometimes imagine, I was minted e.g. A couple of million and had my factory unit nearby, that I ran my eBay business from.

Hawkins001 · 16/08/2022 00:28

The other idea is travelling through parallel universe's, and seeing the different versions of me.

bridgetreilly · 16/08/2022 00:40

I sometimes narrate my life as if I am in a fly on the wall TV documentary.

Popsicle33 · 16/08/2022 00:41

@Chelsea26 I have actually shagged Gerard Butler and it wasn't something I'd care to repeat.

I daydream constantly as I fucking hate my life at the moment. I'm pissing myself at the poster who pretends the hoover is a guitar.

I actually met an actor tonight who I'm nuts about. He was very sweet and friendly but I feel so depressed now that I mean nothing to him 😭

bridgetreilly · 16/08/2022 00:45

@ShitPuffin how do you do Challenge Anneka showers? I feel like this could be lifechangingly brilliant.

ShitPuffin · 16/08/2022 01:00

bridgetreilly · 16/08/2022 00:45

@ShitPuffin how do you do Challenge Anneka showers? I feel like this could be lifechangingly brilliant.

I feel my answer is about to underwhelm you.

Obviously there’s none of Anneka’s worthy goals - it’s really just setting off with force in the direction of the bathroom and narrating (generally internally) your way through your shower with a pretend but real feeling of being against the clock.

But if you can make it better, I AM ALL EARS. 😂

Side note: it can also be used on angsty, piece-meal journeys across London when you’re extraordinarily late. Or cleaning.

(I think I just need the motivation to get going/keep going most of the time and my ADHD does well with this sort of ‘pressure’.)

HRTQueen · 16/08/2022 01:12

Oh yes often I’m winning an Oscar there is a 10 minute standing ovation. I can’t accept it though as I have played the part based on a true story my speech has me decline and I bravely announce she is the true actress (woman I played) not me. Another standing ovation I’m absolutely wonderful

today i was singing in front of Aretha Franklin Dr Feelgood she is moved to tears and announces I’m the only other women who should sing this song I humbly accept

occasionally I win a Pulitzer too and Wimbledon

oh and summer of 2012 I was forever winning gold and crying tears of happiness

HRTQueen · 16/08/2022 01:21

I’ve just realised how grandiose mine are 😳 I thought that was what most people did

glad to see on here some do 😜

Oysterbabe · 16/08/2022 08:42

I think there's enough of us now that we can officially class it as not weird.

Last night when he got into my bed, my 4 year old told me he was going to think about driving a racing car. Next generation of dreamers coming along nicely 😄

haroldd · 16/08/2022 10:25

I enjoyed this thread a lot…. Then later found myself imagining I was a newly famous author being interviewed about how I’d begun freeing my imagination, after reading a mumsnet thread about pretending stuff while going about your real life 😂

RightOnTheEdge · 16/08/2022 23:45

Angelofthenortheast · 15/08/2022 20:32

This sounds tragic, but when I had really extreme depression I would cry a lot, so I'd start pretending I was like a really warm/friendly mum or Mary Poppins to myself and I'd been hired in to work some mary poppins/mum magic.

I'd imagine that the actual me was still lying in bed wallowing, and then I'd get up and clean the house, cooking, life admin etc. And then do nice mumsy stuff like tumble dry pyjamas and put them on my pillow.

It really got me through a mental health crisis during lockdown (I lived alone and don't have any family). And therapists are always saying stuff like "you need to show yourself compassion", but that can be SO difficult if you struggle with self-loathing. But since the traditional concept of a mum is someone who loves you unconditionally...I think it's easier to imagine your mum or carer is there saying that stuff.

It definitely doesn't sound tragic! I think it's lovely and is a brilliant way to look after yourself.

doilookremotelyinterested · 17/08/2022 14:27

Angelofthenortheast · 15/08/2022 20:32

This sounds tragic, but when I had really extreme depression I would cry a lot, so I'd start pretending I was like a really warm/friendly mum or Mary Poppins to myself and I'd been hired in to work some mary poppins/mum magic.

I'd imagine that the actual me was still lying in bed wallowing, and then I'd get up and clean the house, cooking, life admin etc. And then do nice mumsy stuff like tumble dry pyjamas and put them on my pillow.

It really got me through a mental health crisis during lockdown (I lived alone and don't have any family). And therapists are always saying stuff like "you need to show yourself compassion", but that can be SO difficult if you struggle with self-loathing. But since the traditional concept of a mum is someone who loves you unconditionally...I think it's easier to imagine your mum or carer is there saying that stuff.

Sounds normal to me. I'm never going to have that sort of relationship with my mother and have always wanted a maternal substitute, so I just imagine someone motherly being nice to me and just talking through my problems with them. It helps. I struggle to be 'nice' to myself but I can make someone imaginary do it.