posted August 25, 2013 04:27 PM            

I don't think I need to see a Psychologist for therapy or something as what others did. I already recognized the problem and doing something about it now. I'd rather find a support group or find solutions myself. This is something I think I can still handle on my own.

posted August 25, 2013 07:56 PM            

I don't have sun/neptune aspects.
Good luck, I just try and keep myself busy and possible try and walk around... well... actually that does not help..
Try and do something constructive like chores. That's what I do.

posted August 25, 2013 08:39 PM            

I still do it when I read, can feel my attention drifting and a daydreaming forming against my will. It's a real problem!

posted August 25, 2013 08:52 PM            

I'm born on the same day as you - so I have the same placements (like Sun square Nept and Mars conj Nept) and I'm a huge daydreamer but I think it's a really good thing!!!
I mean it works for me!

I would say everyone in the world with artistic talent - specially writing talent - would be diagnosed with this condition, so it's a bit... I don't know..
I don't see the point in calling it a condition.. or trying to treat it. You are who you are.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/the-virtues-of-daydreaming.html

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Humans are a daydreaming species. According to a recent study led by the Harvard psychologists Daniel Gilbert and Matthew A. Killingsworth, people let their minds wander forty-seven per cent of the time they are awake.

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In fact, the only activity during which we report that our minds are not constantly wandering is “love making.” We’re able to focus for that.

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In recent years, however, psychologists and neuroscientists have redeemed this mental state, revealing the ways in which mind-wandering is an essential cognitive tool. It turns out that whenever we are slightly bored—when reality isn’t quite enough for us—we begin exploring our own associations, contemplating counterfactuals and fictive scenarios that only exist within the head.

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The experiment itself was simple: a hundred and forty-five undergraduate students were given a standard test of creativity known as an “unusual use” task, in which they had two minutes to list as many uses as possible for mundane objects such as toothpicks, bricks, and clothes hangers.

Subjects were then randomly assigned to one of four different conditions. In three of those conditions, participants were given a twelve-minute break that entailed either: resting in a quiet room, performing a difficult short-term memory task, or doing something so boring that it would elicit mind-wandering. In a final control condition, participants were given no break at all. Finally, all subjects were given another round of creative tests, including the unusual-use tasks they had worked on only a few minutes before.2

Here’s where things get interesting: those students assigned to the boring task performed far better when asked to come up with additional uses for everyday items to which they had already been exposed. Given new items, all the groups did the same. Given repeated items, the daydreamers came up with forty-one per cent more possibilities than students in the other conditions.

What does this mean? Schooler argues that it’s clear evidence that those twelve minutes of daydreaming allowed the subjects to invent additional possibilities, as their unconscious minds pondered new ways to make use of toothpicks. This is why the effect was limited to those items that the subjects had previously been asked about—the question needed to marinate in the mind, “incubating” in those subterranean parts of the brain we can barely control.

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posted August 25, 2013 08:54 PM            

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I spent days--months even--dreaming my life away. As a Capricorn Moon/Mars, it makes me feel bad to be unproductive. But this is something I can't help but do habitually.

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But everyone does it habitually....

posted August 25, 2013 11:08 PM            

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I cannot tell whomever asks later exactly what happened scene by scene like the other guy can

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And this always happens with every movie?

posted August 25, 2013 11:24 PM            

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Did you all read her post?
Yes everyone day dreams, everyone masturbates too.
When it starts affecting your daily life you have a problem.

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hmm I know...... but....... I am curious as to whether the real problem is that it actually affects her life... or whether the actual problem is that she is being criticised for it, by some pragmatic Virgo-type person.

She seems self-conscious about something that there is no reason to be so self-conscious about.
My impression is that she may be self-conscious because she was told something like "Get off your butt and stop daydreaming!" -- which wouldn't surprise me at all.

posted August 25, 2013 11:30 PM            

"At first glance, such data (the fact that we daydream 47% of the time) seems like a confirmation of our inherent laziness. In a culture obsessed with efficiency, mind-wandering is often derided as useless—the kind of thinking we rely on when we don’t really want to think. Freud, for instance, described daydreams as “infantile” and a means of escaping from the necessary chores of the world into fantasies of “wish-fulfillment.”

posted August 25, 2013 11:37 PM            

But I would like to know - since we have the exact same chart

posted August 26, 2013 12:02 AM            

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Originally posted by Odette:
And this always happens with every movie?

Because I have had this happen before.
I don't think it's so unusual to drift off during a movie, specially if the movie reminds you of something else in your life.

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posted August 26, 2013 12:31 AM            

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Originally posted by soulstress:
I never thought I had this "illness" until just recently when I searched about how to overcome excessive daydreaming. I spent days--months even--dreaming my life away. As a Capricorn Moon/Mars, it makes me feel bad to be unproductive. But this is something I can't help but do habitually. What forced me to do something about it was when my mom recognized my behaviour and thought I was just being lazy. So what I did first was, I AVOIDED THE TRIGGERS. I work and go out as much as I can. But as an ambivert, I eventually got drained and so the need to retreat from the outside world is necessary. I struggled so hard and no one actually knows about this. A lot of times I just feel so listless and that makes it a lot easier to indulge to daydreaming. This started as a child so overcoming won't happen overnight.

I don't think I need to see a Psychologist for therapy or something as what others did. I already recognized the problem and doing something about it now. I'd rather find a support group or find solutions myself. This is something I think I can still handle on my own.

Just thought I'd share this here. I've read (some) Sun/Neptune people suffered from this as well. I sincerely they can also overcome this.

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posted August 26, 2013 01:26 AM            

I daydream quite a bit and can sometimes "zone out" of interacting with others. To actualy detail the process would be a little embarrassing to reveal. So I won't.lol

But I've never thought of it as a problem and, in fact, I have to spend ample time alone and , when I do get married, I'll have a "zone out room" in my house.

It's gonna be kinda like a "gym" room but this room is gonna be a "fantasy/escape" room-no disturbaces.

posted August 26, 2013 04:14 AM            

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*hugs*
There's a support group on yahoo. I don't think medication would help. I remember looking this up when I thought I was going out of my mind. This was a few months ago.

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Thanks.

posted August 26, 2013 04:29 AM            

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So what I did first was, I AVOIDED THE TRIGGERS.

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When it's by choice, that's a bit more complicated, but something triggers her to begin daydreaming excessively...that's interesting. I've never really heard of Maladaptive Daydreaming either, but I mean, I guess it could be a thing. Definitely sounds like a coping method - losing days or even months at a time due to retreating into yourself...