The conversations in your head thing is perfectly normal, you know! Lots of people rehearse things in their head, even though they know they might never actually have the conversation in real life. So no need to worry about that. Daydreaming is also quite normal, everyone does it.
As for those whose fantasies are much more vivid and elaborate, why not write it all down as a story? I've never come across a writer who didn't have a vivid imagination and fantasies in their head, but they put it all to good use in their writing. Why waste good stories by keeping them to yourself? Write it all down and if it makes a good story then share it with others (don't forget to change the names of real-life people, though!).
Fantasy world=life away from life (:
School holidays are the best cause I can spend everyday indulging in being my ideal self and compensating for undesirable circumstances... enabling my "culture shock" difficulty coping with the outside world, thus enabling avoidance ):
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i laugh and cry about things that happen in my "fantasy world" too. i think i do it because i don't show emotion in "real" life. I think i also care more about thepeole in my "fantasy" word than i do about people in real life. i guess because i control them, therefore no rejection/humiliation.
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i laugh and cry about things that happen in my "fantasy world" too. i think i do it because i don't show emotion in "real" life. I think i also care more about thepeole in my "fantasy" word than i do about people in real life. i guess because i control them, therefore no rejection/humiliation.
individuals with AvPD can deal with their emotions only through avoidance, escape, and fantasy.
That is very interesting. For me the word fantasy often seems to carry a certain positive connotation. Not the act of fantasizing but rather the content; our wishes and desires. But for me, most of my fantasies are nothing of the kind. They are often highly stressful and anxiety ridden situations. I have another quote:
"A large portion of human consciousness is devoted to planning for future needs. We are speculative creatures who restlessly scan future possibilities. This actively fuels our fantasies and daydreams, which consist of imagined narratives derived from our daily preoccupations. A brief sample from almost anyone's interior train-of-images reveals that we constantly entertain fleeting hypothetical scenarios, a sort of mental doodling at the edge of our attention. If something is preoccupying us intensely, then certain of these fantasies will become even more vivid. We will go as far as to envisage dreadful eventualities that seem almost masochistic, given the fortable feelings they evoke"
'Daydreams' from Christopher Dewdney's "The Secular Grail"
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