making up imaginary situations

It helps me feel normal and successful for once despite all my anxiety, and it helps me fall asleep too. Is it normal to make up imaginary situations that help you fall asleep? Cookies help us deliver our Services. I'm the reverse. Falcon punch! I'm going to stop what I'm doing. Well, maybe not all of my anxieties are gone, but they don't matter very much anymore. THWOMP!" {��� $�:@j����a�X3� XD������Btc�� ���&�0h��X��w_8S�X6�Y L@l�\+փ�� O0) Press J to jump to the feed. Call me weird, but I imagine ive been bitten by something poisonous and am fading out. USE EXAMPLES 1 Imaginary situations a present and future If we hadn’t met that time, I wouldn’t be here now. Practice the pause and use mindfulness. It helps, Oh yeah I basically have written entire books in my head throughout years! (But we met, so I am here now.) 29 0 obj<>stream I'm going to turn and square up to face him and loud enough so that everyone in the bay can hear me, I'm gonna be like, "BOOM! I envision my life afterwards not having to get up and go to work, the trips I’d take, and so on. As per Jeffory Kemp/mgb: "I know but hypothetically if they actually did have 9 lives" – TripeHound Aug 29 '17 at 11:06 | show 2 more comments. Yes but I also act them out verbally and my voice for myself is always an English accent for some reason. x�b```a``�"�2@ (� I used to imagine things that kept me awake, but now I imagine peaceful things like finally getting a professional deep tissue massage or meeting people I look up to or how I’d upgrade my computer if I had unlimited money, or story lines and hypotheticals like what would I do if I could fly? However if I'm not careful I will imagine things that will keep me awake which is irritating! Where I magically meet someone that gets me out of my comfort zone, we live happily ever after, and all my anxieties are gone because they make me a happier, stronger, more confident person. I think of how I would tell my spouse and my boss. I can get really involved in them, to the point that I'm laughing out loud by myself or grimacing or whatever. I do this a lot. But I just use my voice.. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the DoesAnybodyElse community, Press J to jump to the feed. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the TooAfraidToAsk community. I think he … 0000003053 00000 n Yes. It can feel therapeutic afterwards though. 1. I hope the same for you. No way, but if that bastard, Mike, ever tries to tell ME I'm not working hard enough, I'm going to stop what I'm doing. 0000000676 00000 n startxref Can you set up a broadcast cam ready for when Mike comes in. Unit 27 shows you how to make correct sentences with it. I often find myself imagining some cute story or interaction with a girl I felt special for. To me its like counting sheep. 0000001643 00000 n Notice that –‘d is the short form. 0000001243 00000 n EDIT: Thanks a lot for the positive response everyone. 0000000016 00000 n I like to write fiction so sometimes I play out plot points in my head as I can see them play like a video. 0000000972 00000 n What I’m trying to say is, I don’t know if it’s normal or not, but you’re definitely not alone. Spin kick! �:;���%9\ ]2! Yeah 10 year old me basically had the same premise in her head only with dogs and different adventures haha, I don’t know how normal it is but I’ve done it for as long as I can remember. 0000004192 00000 n I don’t know if it’s normal but I do it occasionally. Mostly with music. I'm going to turn and square up to face him and loud enough so that everyone in the bay can hear me, I'm gonna be like, "BOOM! I end up arguing with a person that doesn't exist about something that never happened. Or if I were a witch? Sometimes it's an imagined version of something yet to happen, sometimes pure fiction - when I was younger I would imagine myself living in the past. 0000021829 00000 n I just hope you had a good time with her and a lot of memories to cherish. Hearing the audience and the intensity definitely plays a role in the visuals. I slowly close my eyes in real life while I imagine that Im fighting off the sleepiness from the poison. I try to do this whenever I miss her or feel my life getting messed up. Usually only when I'm angry. xref It's nothing i've ever considered to be strange or abnormal. Start praying or meditation in stead of lying in bed and and dreaming up situations. 0000003338 00000 n Most of all make frriends. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. I imagine in meticulous detail exactly what I’d do if I won the lottery. Keep holding out for it--love like that is very real. It's sleeper hold time! This is what kept me sane when i worked retail in college. 11 0 obj <> endobj I try to do this whenever I miss her or feel my life getting messed up. 11 19 Yeah this has been really effective for me lately. I often find myself imagining some cute story or interaction with a girl I felt special for. When you have strange, weird, embarrassing question, and there's no one else to ask. Though for me i normally imagine i am like a knight or whatever fighting in a war (i like fantasy video games a lot) and it usually puts me to sleep super fast. It's sleeper hold time! By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. I've done this since childhood. 0000002067 00000 n H��W�n�8}�W�#��Y�uٗ�M�E�n�@\d�tT����R`�1�ۇ����P�/٢���X$�3�9�h��O^�v�ᾜȐrc��1�O�xL����,'og�W�� �儇�2��O2�!.���l3yuY�0/�Q�x��y>a�1�l>��G_�l?�#��_��I*x���{���^��6���8a�����q�=.���b���4�L�w�w�T�Oe�. When I snap back, I'm astonished at how distracted & worked up I get myself over a thought of violence or expressive anger. It only worked for a few minutes then I just got tired again. Watch and observe the behaviors of others. Remember Warriors? Gets me to sleep faster and that makes it serious business for me. I try to induce a daydreaming-like state when I'm trying to fall asleep to prevent myself from thinking about things that would keep me up. This is a form of guided meditation. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. BAP! I'm doing something different each time, but it is always at the beginning of an ice storm and sleeting. 0000008941 00000 n Does anyone else does this? Look out, BITCH! Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I've done this ever since I was a kid, I've the years the scenarios change but it helps me drift off. DAE ever make up imaginary situations in your head and your reactions to them, even though you know that they're never going to happen? I do this, sort of. 0000001100 00000 n Good friends are hard to find in this day and age and we feel sorrow for the ones we lose. Yeah when I read this I though, “oh, you mean my inner monologue?”. You maybe lonely,listen to music. or premise. Yeah I do this. Falcon punch! The imaginary situation itself is a hypothetical. I do this to the point my boyfriend asks me what scenario I'm playing out "this time" lol. Man, the first one was my go-to daydream for 20+ years. Hey man sorry for your loss. 0000002526 00000 n Stay strong. 1. Thanks. I’m an anxious workaholic and I’m already getting too old to lose sleep. Englishman who has his scenarios in a cowboy accent . trailer I remember talking to a cousin during a sleepover and he didn't do it, so for a long time I thought it was just me. The scenario is usually the same. Anyway, that’s been minimized this past week for some reason, idk, just haven’t been doing it. BAP! – Jeffrey Kemp May 29 '17 at 5:54. endstream endobj 12 0 obj<> endobj 13 0 obj<> endobj 14 0 obj<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]/ExtGState<>>> endobj 15 0 obj<> endobj 16 0 obj<> endobj 17 0 obj<> endobj 18 0 obj<> endobj 19 0 obj[/ICCBased 26 0 R] endobj 20 0 obj<> endobj 21 0 obj<> endobj 22 0 obj<> endobj 23 0 obj<> endobj 24 0 obj<> endobj 25 0 obj<>stream Spin kick! I do really fantastic speeches. In the book “sapiens” by noah harari he writes that a time in human evolution was called the cognitive revolution. Ranging from ways I may respond to people to the very fantastic like winning the Nobel Peace prize or explaining how I discovered the thing we've never seen before. It helps me feel normal and successful for once despite all my anxiety, and it helps me fall asleep too. I tend to avoid intricate story or anything as it takes too much concentration lol, I imagine different stories from time to time especially if I have a hard time falling asleep. I personally always walk along the same imaginary route through the woods. THWOMP!" 3 Answers Active Oldest Votes. <]>> I do that all the time. I think you should take up some hobby to occupy yourself. It might be called assumption: something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. And I'll have to remind myself that if anyone saw me I'd look totally crazy. Reading all your input made me a little happy and I wish everyone keeps daydreaming the same! I feel like the therapuetic effect is the entire purpose of it, Actually attacking or carrying out stuff would be bad for overall survival, but playing it out in your mind to release the anger helps to keep things civil until they become uncivil in which case you have no choice but to act. The more you are under stress, the worse the stories become in either direction. 0000003874 00000 n 0000003019 00000 n 0 Which mean when humans first gained the capacity to imagine something that wasn't. And then you realise you’re on the train... Ive used this before to get myself really angry at a fake person in my head to raise my adrenaline because I had no sleep and was feeling really tired that day. Like I'm acting out this whole scenario in my head and not fully aware of what's going on around me. 0000003626 00000 n %PDF-1.4 %���� This unit shows you when to use it. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Too bad I'm a tiny 5' chick... Maybe Cole Beasley will hold me on his shoulders, and together we'll make one person, and do all the touchdunks! Watch TV, write a book. 0000004116 00000 n %%EOF The stories probably have a some what similar story line. I did this all the time for years with my best friend but she lived in Alabama and I live in Connecticut so it’d be a while before we could meet, this was amplified recently when she died, I’d be going to sleep and just continue to imagine getting to meet her in person and all the cool shit we’d do and how I can’t wait to do that but I usually bring myself back to reality before the line between reality and delusion gets blurred. Go out for walks, keep a pet, looking after it will keep you occupied. In order to see reality more for what it is rather than a reflection of your past experiences, do not assign it any label. For what it's worth, I found that person for me. Sometimes I have to cycle through the channels in my brain before I hit on the right one for that night lol. I also say it out loud..