Dreaming my life away...

[CapitánBeto]

I'm 27+ years old and still dream about my school mates.
Most of them I have not seen in 10 or 15 years.
I dream about us having a good time, laughing, being friends.

I also dream about my elementary school and high school crushes.
I dream that we are together, that we are boyfriends.
These are the most heartwarming.

I've had these recurring dreams for like ever.
What perplexes me is, these people do not have any idea of the impact they've had on me.
Does any of you also dream about people who left your life years ago?

When I wake up, I usually snooze the alarm for and hour or two so I can keep entertaining the dream.
I also daydream a lot, if it is not about friendship or romance, I imagine situations or fake scenarios.
They are like movies constantly rolling inside my head.

In the middle of the day, I take a 2-3 hour nap, just so I can keep dreaming.
I've easily spent half my life in bed.
And if we count the time I've spent ruminating while awake, I think it might add up to three-quarters or sth.

Are there any chronic daydreamers out here?

I also have lucid dreams and sporadic sleep paralysis, but that's another story...

 

[music]

cool post formatting

i do....... just about all of those things yeah. though for the daydreaming, it's very rarely people i used to know. not sure why. rehearsing doctor's appointments that i meant to make months ago is seemingly a favourite. or hypotheticals in meeting one of my computer friends. it doesn't always involve me either. i talk to myself for probably multiple hours a day all in all when doing this, it's not usually intentional. i slip into them just about anywhere and anytime.

i love dreaming too. i spent a few months of my time last year treating my waking life as a job, living vicariously through the imagined scenarios in my head, then upon sleepy time i felt alive through the night with a pretty high lucid dream likelihood. if i didn't manage to get one then it was at least 50% people i last interracted with when i was 14 or 15. majorly repressed romantic feelings at the time for so many reasons so that does have a way of making its way into my dream life.

wondering lately if they ever dream about me. no one would know. one boy doesn't know he holds me together sometimes by talking things through and holding me in my head at night. i would've been thirteen when he left. a girl i was barely friends with when i was 9 who comforted me through some scary stuff back then has no way of knowing how much that continues to mean to me. they are grounding figures to my subconscious.

i'm truly not sure how people would react if they somehow found out about this. i don't know how i would either.
my only hope is that i meant enough to someone for only the idea of me to be comforting, just once

 

[meso]

i daydreamed a lot; mostly before sleep (at night, before a day nap, whenever i could), i was living an entire parallel life during hours, it was not realistic (it implied things that cannot exist), but it was very comforting

some events in my life brought me back to the boring reality, and i don't daydream anymore, or just a little; i miss that feeling, it was like i was actually living this other life (maybe some schizophrenic people or similar ways of being can relate), it helped me cope with my life

so yeah i clearly feel you OP