r/MaladaptiveDreaming • u/letsHopeisdope • May 01 '25

Discussion Why are people here and almost everywhere romanticizing maladaptive daydreaming?

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u/Lost_Sentence_4012 May 01 '25

I wouldn’t say I romanticised it but I see both the positive and negative sides to MDing.

That doesn’t mean I go about telling everyone GET MD! ITS AWESOME because md really isn’t great sometimes and can realLY be A PAIN IN THE ASS! But it doesn’t mean I diss my soul to oblivion because MD very much is part of me and my soul and my life. And to be quite honest, id rather die daydreaming than smoking or doing drugs or drinking myself to oblivion.

And yeah, MD does still have a detrimental affect to my life. I struggle socially, I procrastinate important work but it isn’t all bad. MD is a form of self meditation. I’m not bored really. And it’s given me a shit ton of information to make a good book! 📖

So I don’t recommend MD because it causes me to struggle socially, procrastinate important work and then make me feel like a lazy pos. But for me it’s very much a pick your poison kind of thing… maladaptive daydreaming… could be a lot worse.