daydreaming is often a coping mechanism for people who are often lonely or don’t receive a good amount of love in their life, so they make people inside their heads that will love them so they can feel the right amount of love.
Level 40: Daydreaming about your finished project and not writing your story
Level 23445342532556: Daydreaming not only about the story but all the fandom and discourse it will spawn. Daydreaming about fanfiction and fanart for your story instead of actually writing your story.
Interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Me: I used escapist fantasies as a coping mechanism to get through years of trauma and therefore never learned how to plan for a real life future
Alternatively: I went through periods of depression so frequent and intense that I never considered that I’d actually make it to my 20s so now I’m kinda just making it up as I go
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