Do you have a 'rich inner life'?

[Twattergy]

And if so, what's in there?!
I think I do, in so much that despite a fairly busy life I spend quite a lot of time in my own head, and I like it.
For me, a rich inner life means I enjoy thinking about a range of 'non essential' things like music, nature, art. I'm interested in my own ideas and in how I process the world around me. I am company for myself, if that makes sense.
Unsurprisingly I'm therefore quite happy spending time alone. I am also very sociable. So it's not at the expense of connecting with others.

Interestingly DM has dementia and one of her symptoms is delusions but there are some advantages to it, she is constantly imagining interactions and conversations with friends, people who've been in her life etc They get up to all sorts (in her mind) and I think it stops her getting lonely / bored now that she is mostly bed-bound.

This is like my DM. Her best happiest days are when she’s chatting to someone ( imagining an old friend) her sense of humour comes alive again and this is when she’s the most relaxed and content.

I think my inner life improved when I started taking better care of my outer life. My inner voice used to be really quite negative, often cruel and prone to catastrophizing. I made some new habits - morning sea swim with a group, bi monthly sound baths, evening walk in nature, joined the local park run, online daily meditation with a group for half an hour, weekly online win hof breath work sessions, saunas. I’m now having 1:2:1 swim lessons to improve my technique and breathing and make swimming more of a meditative practice rather than an exercise in not drowning. I just feel more grounded, present and a lot less anxious …

I always thought this was just me. Preferring my day dream life to real life. And for many years I tried to keep it in check.
Then a year or two ago I read about a woman who gave up work because it interfered with her day dreaming and I realised I wasn't the only one

I didn't know what it was called though so thanks for giving it a name.

My day dream life is what keeps me going.

I love daydreaming. I went through a phase recently where I would spend literally hours each day in my fantasy world (I’m not working at the moment). Although it’s better that I’m now living mostly in the real world, I do miss it! It was much better than my actual life…
It’s not only daydreaming for me though, I love thinking about all sorts of things, having imaginary conversations in my head and so on. I enjoy my own company. I found the baby and toddler stage soooo hard because I had so little time to be alone with my thoughts. I do get low though if I have too little interaction with other people - I wouldn’t want to be a hermit