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Fantasies (no not that kind!)
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| rhubarb6 |
Posted on March 23 2010 05:50 PM
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::insert standard cliché opening remarks, "hi I'm new here," etc.etc.::
I think it's a part of human nature to daydream and fantasize; however, there does seem to be something about how the "dyscalculaic" mind works that produces unusually vivid scenarios. Now, perhaps everyone is responding to this going, "OMG, I do play-by-play stuff in my head all the time!" "Hey, me too!" and thinking it means something because people with dyscalculia have kind of congregated here, and maybe it doesn't, although it would be a really fascinating study to make.
I didn't have time to read every post in here, I skimmed a lot of them, and there does seem to be a difference between doing the "movies in my mind" and just regular daydreaming. Now, just about as long as I can remember, I have done two things--burst into tears at the sight of numbers, and thought about myself in the third person. I narrate like crazy in my head--"She sat at her computer, typing busily, her coffee getting cold, aware of the fact that she needed to finish the next section before her boss got back, but unable to help herself." I've never thought this was normal or something anyone else did, and while I also can visualize my daydreams so vividly, they're nearly real, and I enact conversations with people before I have them, I've never connected it to my inability to function with numbers. As for the fictional characters running rampant in my brain, I blame those on the fact that I've wanted to be a novelist since I was 12. Maybe creative types do this kind of thing and my self-narration isn't as goofy as I think. And maybe there is some kind of, I don't want to call it a "disconnect," but some kind of different wavelength mathematically-challenged people have that makes fantasy so much more vivid. Connection or no connection, it's a fascinating thesis I wish someone would do more on  |
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| Pixie |
Posted on April 05 2010 08:22 PM
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I don't think it is anything to do with the dyscalculia. I think it is simply day dreaming I do it all the time and i think everyone does so you are not alone. |
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| dysflexei |
Posted on May 12 2010 01:21 PM
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ert wrote:
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I do that all the time. I mean it. ALL the time. It's kind of like a storyboard, if you know what I mean? "Then I say this, then he says that, then she does that, then that happens"... And I react on what I'm thinking, so suddenly I'm laughing/looking angry or something like that, out of nowhere. Really embarrasing, sometimes - but mostly I do it when I'm alone. Sometimes I talk to myself while doing it - even more akward, because I'm not always aware of what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of a fantasy, as you call it - so sometimes, out of the blue, I "wake up" and wonder if I have said anything out loud or something like that. I don't think I actually talk out loud when I'm out in "public" that much, but I'm sure it has happened... Let's just say, I'm not really that surprised when I hear other people talk to themselfes.
If I watch something boring on tv or something like that, then suddenly I realise that I've been living in my head for the past 10 minutes and have no idea what has happened on the show I was watching - even though I've been staring at the screen. These "episodes" happen every day, but I have never counted or anything like that... But I've been doing it as far back as I can remember. "Zoning out" is a symptom of ADD/ADHD, and having these "episodes" have made me wonder many times if I have ADD/ADHD... I haven't been tested. Not sure I want to, right now.
I know that people daydream, everybody does that. But I've always felt that "daydreaming" was a bad word for what I was doing... Daydreaming is more... Well, more "less" than what I'm doing, this storyboard-thing of mine, in my head. I think.
Hehe , This sounds just like me . .. Daydreaming(or whatever term appropriate ) has been with me as long as i can remember . I don't need to describe it . It's exactly as ert said above - word by word ;-) But this is a serious problem as i see it coz it just place us in a fantasyland and prevents us from accepting the realities . Very baaad , I've to get out of it .. |
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| Illumination |
Posted on May 30 2010 03:29 AM
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I do that so much I think it's getting in the way of my social life. And I get so into it too! It's awful when you come back and remember that it's not real...
By the way, does anyone else sometimes feel like, when they have their hands on a table, that the table and your wholo body, is slowly lifting sideways into the air and sliding down, only to jerk back to reality like hitting the ground and feeling like you had just been falling. And the weirder thing is, you hadn't moved or fallen asleep. I think I'm the only one with this. |
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| Jacurr |
Posted on June 14 2010 08:58 AM
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I'm blown away that one small first beginning of thread from Bubble gave rise to 10 pages of fascinating stuff. I don't do it much now but as a child I had an extremely active fantasy life, was an only child and didn't have much company much of the time so I found fantasies a refuge from the pains of life, and because I had such a heightened ability to create my own worlds... based usually on Walt Disney characters, and later on with characters on radio serials (had no TV as a kid) that even now 50 years later I can remember things that my characters did far more than I can remember real things that happened to me. I noticed in the Wikipedia entry on dyscalculia the last symptom mentioned was this:" Low latent inhibition i.e., over-sensitivity to noise, smell, light and the inability to tune out, filtering unwanted information or impressions. Might have a well-developed sense of imagination due to this (possibly as cognitive compensation to mathematical-numeric deficits)."
This low latent inhibition meant that I'd be terrified of " frights" from loud noises coming from unexpected places.BOO. if any other person threateningly blew up a balloon close to my ear I'd get all paralysed with fear at the noise it would make.. and I was always really relieved if the balloon didn't burst. "Over-sensitity to noise..."
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| cleancheeks |
Posted on July 26 2010 10:03 PM
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I have scenarios or movies. Like what if neanderthals were living today or what if Captain America met Bush(SLAPPP)? Just crazy stuff like that or i replay things i really enjoy like an episode of True Blood or Being Human |
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| Nissa |
Posted on July 27 2010 04:18 AM
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I do the same thing.
I saw an old episode of Doctor Who (a Brittish sci-fi show) where a bunch of aliens are rounding up the most intelligent humans, and abosorbing thier brains. The aliens planned on using thier new knowledge to take over the world. So, I startd thinking, my I.Q. is above average- the aliens might take me. I imagined heroicaly offering myself to the aliens, and once they had absorbed my brain, The Doctor could defeat them with ... long division! Mwa ha ha ha ha! |
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| Matt |
Posted on August 03 2010 04:13 AM
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know this thread is rather old but... I believe this is a common thing for those with dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, dyscalculia etc...
All of these so called disorders seem to be related to each other in one big dysfunctional family. For me it is just a different way to role play, work out emotions, express desires,or over come fear. The really spooky thing is that it seems so real when I do it. I must remind myself, on occasion, it is only in my head and not in the physical. In other words keep it in a healthy perspective. Personally I think it is a gift. |
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| Nissa |
Posted on August 04 2010 07:44 PM
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Hi Matt, it looks like this is your first post- welcome!
I agree with you about vivid daydreams being a gift; I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't daydream- though it is hard to keep things in perspective sometimes. |
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| Pixie |
Posted on August 11 2010 06:01 PM
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Yeah I do it all the time, that's probably one reason why I'm happier when I day dream!
Anything can be true in an imaginary world
" I smile because I have no idea what's going on!"
"I was ready to conquer the world and then I saw something shiny" |
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| Thrillosophy |
Posted on August 17 2010 05:08 PM
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I wanna meet Sookie Stackhouse |
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| Cait |
Posted on August 29 2010 06:21 PM
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Just read through this thread - WOW! I have done this my entire life, too. I am always pretending I'm either a celebrity (actress, or singer) or that I know a celebrity...and I make up conversations in my head, and sort of 'act it out' mine and usually 'his' answers. I won't say who I make up convos with, though, it's so embarrassing. 
I also like to take a song that I love and pretend that I'm the famous singer who is singing it, and I imagine my music videos.
I can't believe I've admitted this. I thought I was the only one who literally acted out these dreams in my head (and sometimes semi-out-loud, when I'm alone of course!). |
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