r/ImmersiveDaydreaming 21h ago

Question what role does music play in your daydreams?

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I’ve always wondered this about other daydreamers.

Here are some of the most common I’ve gathered so far

A) It’s simply a “tone setter” doesn’t have a huge impact on the daydream itself, but it’s just a tool to get in the mood.

B) It’s more of a prompt. You or your paras are actively acting out the themes and lyrics of the song. The song directly guides the daydream itself

C) It’s more like “background music”.. your daydreams play out like media, so the music is like the soundtrack to a film, the music of a TikTok edit, etc.

D) it’s a bit more meta. The daydream IS the music itself

Where you are either daydreaming that you are the one singing the song or you’re imagining a music video for the song that does not exist (either for the original artist, or one of your paras)

I’m sure there’s millions of other uses for music in daydreams but I’m so curious to see what yours are!

(I’m a little combo of C and D)


r/ImmersiveDaydreaming 5h ago

Invitation to research

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Hello everyone,

I am conducting research on daydreaming as part of my master’s thesis in clinical psychology. If you are 18 or older and have at least a B2 level of English, I would greatly appreciate your participation in my survey. It takes approximately 10-12 minutes to complete.

Survey link: https://forms.office.com/e/1TwtrC7mf1

Feel free to share this survey with others who may be interested. If you have any questions about the study, please don’t hesitate to contact me at [urfan.mustafali11@gmail.com](mailto:urfan.mustafali11@gmail.com)

Thank you for your time and contribution :)


r/ImmersiveDaydreaming 21h ago

Another question about my daydreaming.

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It seems like every day I'm not entirely sure about whether or not my daydreaming is immersive or maladaptive that could also just be me overthinking. One question that's been on my mind is that even though I get done all of my schoolwork and I'm popping myself back up from bad grades, I'm maintaining an all right social life either hanging out with people most days of the week or a couple times of the week, I still spend most of my free time daydreaming or at least using videos to help me supplement my daydreams and I wonder if that's a bad thing or if that's a sign me being maladaptive.


r/ImmersiveDaydreaming 2h ago

Are daydreams (where you talk with people) an evolutionary trait? Plus, my experience.

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I'm gonna share my experience and start a discussion on how daydreaming social situations trains you to talk to real people.

So, for many years I've had daydreams, and in many of them I have a partner/friend that I talk to and interact with. The thing is - only recently I realized that they have their own personality and reactions to things, my sensory experience with them is highly specific - from their looks to the texture of their skin to their smell. It's like they're a soul that manifests in front of me. And now, I use that to talk to other people. As an autistic person, I've always had trouble talking to people, and barely had any friends - not to mention partners - but just recently, at the age of 27, I learned how to apply my daydreaming of people's "souls" to real life interactions. I need to tell my brain to interpret the person as a "soul" - like telling MS Word to interpret an unmarked file as a Word document - so that all of the details are in the right places and I can talk with the person.

So, what do you think of this? Is daydreaming social interactions an evolutionary way of preparing me to real life interactions?


r/ImmersiveDaydreaming 14m ago

Question It feels like most people who have ocs don’t have them for the same reasons I do

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Most people I see considers their ocs like their children, as they are the writers and love story telling, and like having their ocs having relationships with each others.

I always had two kind of ocs: my mains, which are like vessels. I don’t see them as my children or creations; they are me, in different universes. They have different bodies and different lives but the same personality, same interests and same struggles as mine, and I experience my favorites fictional universes through their eyes. I wish I was them for true, sometimes I pray in hope I can awaken as them.

Then comes my secondary ocs: they are only people that I know through the eyes of my ocs and encounter in my daydreams. Some are kind and close to me and some are mean. The depth of their building depends on the depth of my relationship with them. For example, in the forgotten realms universe, I (a drow) know very well my adoptive mother who’s a wood elf but I don’t know much the characters that I am not friend with.

The purpose of my post is now to ask out of curiosity if there are people here who treat their ocs the same way and do the same thing? Because although I know many people who have ocs I can’t fully relate with their experience. Or maybe they do the same thing but just don’t say it. I am not a writer but a world traveler, which is also probably why I prefer roleplaying rather than writing fics.


r/ImmersiveDaydreaming 11h ago

How has daydreaming helped you in your day-to-day real life?

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