Do you ever think that everything will be OK when you get a new job/your crush notices you/you have time/conditions are perfect, etc? I think we daydreamers do this a lot. In our daydream worlds, we can make everything perfect. We can control everything. So when confronted with a real-life situation that’s outside our control,Continue reading “Moving forward when the future is uncertain or out of your control”
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Perfect doesn’t exist in real life
In real life, there’s no such thing as perfect. Normative daydreamers figure this out early on, but immersive and maladaptive daydreamers have a much harder time of it. Having total control over our daydream world means that we can make it perfect, and many of us do. I don’t think there’s a problem with that,Continue reading “Perfect doesn’t exist in real life”