أَحْـلامُ الـيَـقَـظَـةِ (Daydreaming).
We talked about escapism before. One essential pillar of that trend, I'd argue, is daydreaming. Years ago, there was a debate on whether "Maladaptive Daydreaming" (MDD) is real or not. Not sure about the updates regarding this, but whatever the case is, I guess we don't have to be psychologists or psychiatrists to reflect on this issue. An issue that many link to creativity, but totally forget about its destructive side.
Personally, I would place this issue at an equal footing with anxiety. Both can be sides of the same coin; while one looks at the negatives of the issue, the other is imaginative about some non-existent issues (and actually this imaginative side is not necessarily happy or positive).
We all are allowed to daydream. Yet, there are cases when such daydreaming takes the mind wandering off the real issues and the real dangers looming directly above the heads.
There is a question, though, that might be hard to answer: Whom to blame? Why would one waste such a time (sometimes hours) in daydreaming? Is it neurological? Trauma? Procrastination? Lack of motivation? Or maybe just all of that? Probably each individual case has its own roots. Knowing them is at the core of helping people to snap out of it, but probably something general can be done; something along the line of showing affection, a pat, a soft word, a song, or even an innocent tease… topics that are usually, but not necessarily, the main theme in daydreamers' minds. Probably, all that daydreaming is just to compensate for some essentials that had been lost in the lives of these folks, and what better way there is to fill in that dreary void but to imagine it is there?
In case you know (and love) someone dwindling in such realms, please hurry up and hold their hands. You just don't know how much addictive (and destructive) daydreaming is…
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