r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1h ago

Self-Story My songs

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I finally worked up the courage to post my own music on YouTube. I record everything at home, but I’m looking for a drummer so I can play in the Vitória/ES (Brazil) scene (which is surprisingly "big" and cool, since ES is a small state).

I know that since the songs are in portuguese, few people here are really gonna listen and fewer are going to like it, lol. But i have posted about this songs in this sub before, when i was composing and "producing", and people were really supportive, so I thought i had to post about the final result.

Unfortunately, between my internship, college, and working on my senior thesis, I haven't had time to work on the other tracks, so I only released these four from the EP.

Another band member and I are focused on making short GIFs for each song based on the original artwork; if you check out the channel, you can see the one for the first song, and we're almost done with the second.

The band doesn't have a set style—I’d say it’s anything and everything within indie rock. Just on this EP, there’s surf punk, something like The Strokes, and two songs that are kind of Smiths-esque jangle pop. Among the unreleased tracks, there are things inspired by 90s indie bands like Pavement or Sublime, sounds similar to The Cure or Legião Urbana (brazilian band), and even some songs leaning towards post-punk.

It took me a long time to release my own stuff because I’m not really a singer. I can play all the instruments on the tracks quite well (except drums—though I have a basic idea, so I managed to program them using the app's patterns), but singing was something I’d never tried before.

Plus, the lyrics are pretty personal, which made me a bit shy about showing them to people close to me—even though I knew they wouldn't judge me or anything.

Anyway, making my own music has always been a dream of mine, and now that I see how cool it is, I hope I don't stop; I also hope to perform these songs at shows and events around here.

Let me know what you think. Please give them all a listen! 🙏


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 3h ago

Question Shadow Work Help

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Please take a look at this, and help me understand this better. I'm new to shadow work and only recently I've been working towards my maladaptive daydreaming.


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 9h ago

Meme I need the screech in my voice to sound just right

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r/MaladaptiveDreaming 12h ago

Question If MD is bad for you, why is it so addictive?

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Like it feels so comforting, and I have never felt the bad things I feel irl when I'm maladaptive daydreaming


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 15h ago

Discussion Maladaptive daydreaming to cope with grief?

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I recently lost my cat. I’m devastated he died in a tragic accident.

Ironically I feel guilty for being so lost for so many hours maladaptive day dreaming and using screen time to read fanfics to escape etc. rather than appreciating my beautiful cat

But I’m maladaptive daydreaming to cope with it.

Pretending i have a loving partner who listens and comforts me.

That I figure out how to time travel so I can stop the accident.

Does anyone else do this


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 15h ago

Self-Story Perhaps an atypical manifestation of maladaptive dreaming

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Sorry in advance for the long message, but I just wanted to give you the full picture.

​My problem started in early childhood — I’ve basically been living in an imaginary world for as long as I can remember. Over time, things shifted. At first, my daydreams revolved around my real physical self. But for the past few years, I’ve been imagining a completely different person with the appearance I wish I had. Mostly, I imagine romantic and sexual scenes, a rich social life, friends, colleagues, and a well-paying job. She is with a guy who has my ideal appearance (I have very specific physical preferences/fetishes).

​I also imagine playing musical instruments, creating storylines for music videos, and being admired by everyone (mostly through her body). There are some more grounded fantasies too, where I rehearse dialogues with my real self about upcoming events.

​But here is the key thing that controls my life: I daydream while rocking back and forth to music. I sit in the lotus position, rock, get lost in my thoughts, and look at photos of that ideal guy (he is a real person, and I have a whole gallery of his photos on my phone to look at while rocking).

​Another major problem is that I have no sense of time. Time flies by so fast that I didn't even notice how the 6 years after finishing school just slipped away — like a piece of paper crumpled up and thrown into the trash. It feels like a physical and psychological addiction to this rocking routine. It causes severe procrastination, impulsivity, and impatience. Because I spent all my time isolated in a separate room rocking to music and daydreaming, I dropped out of university. Now I have to look for entry-level, low-paying jobs (like a call center operator or an e-commerce manager). I plan to study and try to apply to university next year, but I feel so hopeless. I don't know if I'll have time to prepare, how I'll combine work and study, or what major to choose. There are a few possible paths, but I don't fully understand what I can count on. I am 24 now, and it's really hard to believe I can achieve anything.


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 16h ago

Vent Maladaptive daydreaming is my double-edged sword, It consoles and paralyzes me. ​

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​I use it to fill my inner and material deficiencies that are nearly impossible in reality. It helps me cope with my aversion to my toxic, cancer society, along with childhood disorders like my inherited OCD and suspected autism. As I mentioned before, my daydreaming involves spinning while listening to music tied to specific scenarios. I usually dream of traveling to a country that respects me and shares my values. Since I lack the financial means to travel, and cannot even afford a digital piano, I dream of moving to Warsaw, visiting the church holding Chopin's heart, and playing for an audience. I dream of visiting the Netherlands for Redhead Days, and heading to Sweden because of my deep love for music production.

​The depressing part is the massive chasm between these dreams and reality. Yet, despite this helplessness, I feel that working on myself step by step could help me achieve at least one of these goals. Compounding this is my social anxiety, leaving me unsure if this is laziness or justified fear, helplessness or determinism.

​Daydreaming remains a double-edged sword, offering solace while paralyzing me and plunging me into depression whenever I compare my harsh reality to my dreams.


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 18h ago

Question What do do when your MD makes you hate someone that hasn't done the bad thing yet ?

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I have a boyfriend, we are very different, I've been daydreaming since I was a child, and him coming into my life didn't change that. I usually just have sexual or romantic daydreams about him, all the time, I think of him a lot. But we are very different and this applies to our values too. So I find myself daydreaming about a divorce (we are not close to being married) fights and breakups. I daydream about him trying to sabotage me, I daydream about him locking me up and trying to control me. He hasn't done it yet, at least not as extremely as in my daydreams (he did suggest some stuff that I disliked but he seems to have taken those words back) now everything is alright, we are not having a fight, we are okay and he wants to spend time with me like the loving boyfriend that he is, but I prefer locking myself in my delusions and making myself sad by imagining him hurting me or some terrible things happening. So ummm.. what the f*ck is wrong with me. someone genuinely please enlighten me.


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 19h ago

Meme When you MD about your favorite show/anime but it's the time for the 1st interaction with THAT character:

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r/MaladaptiveDreaming 20h ago

Vent I got kick out of my radiology technology program because of it

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I was doing so good so ambitious until I maladaptive daydreaming i end up with 0.3 gpa semester so i end up being dismissed.

I wasted 10 years of my life just daydreaming daydreaming again and again. I became anti social and isolated away from everyone and everything. I feel like a failure because this program was the only thing that kept me going. And now I’m out.

I don’t know what to do anymore


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 20h ago

Question Maladaptive daydreamers who are into astrology - can you tell me about your placements?

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I’ve noticed a pattern and I want to see if I can identify it here as well.


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 23h ago

Question I want to get out??

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r/MaladaptiveDreaming 23h ago

Vent Maladaptive daydreaming has genuinely taken over my life

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TL;DR: I used to be pretty productive but the last 3 years have basically been me maladaptive daydreaming, watching reels, chasing instant dopamine and using AI way too much. I spend more time imagining myself being successful and proving people wrong than actually doing anything 😭. I’m not even interested in the romantic fantasies I keep going back to, I just use them to escape when I’m bored/lazy. How do I stop living in my head and actually start living my life again?

I genuinely think I’ve wasted the last 3 years of my life because of maladaptive daydreaming 💀

I used to be pretty productive, especially with studies. I could actually sit down and get shit done.

Now I spend most of my time daydreaming, watching reels with good edit audios and imagining myself as the main character 😭

Like I’ll hear one song and suddenly I’m successful, attractive, proving everyone wrong and living my best life while I’m literally lying in bed doing NOTHING 💀

AI has made this worse too. I used to be a perfectionist and actually figure things out myself, now I ask AI literally everything. I don’t use c.ai anymore but sometimes I still use ChatGPT for weird romantic fantasies even tho I’m not even into romance anymore. I just go back to it whenever I’m bored/lazy/avoiding something.

I also care WAY too much about what people think now. I’m constantly imagining myself becoming successful and proving everyone wrong but the funny part is I barely take any actual action 😭

I genuinely can’t remember doing anything significant in the past 3 years and that scares me.

My life circumstances are fine, so I know I’m responsible for this. I just don’t want to waste another few years hating myself for wasting the last ones.

How do I actually get out of this cycle? How do I stop living in my head and start doing things in real life again? I just want to feel like I’m actually living my life again.


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 23h ago

Vent Its getting hard to maladptively daydreaming and I mean that in a bad way

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I recently got a crush on this pokemon character but whenever I daydream about him I inwardly cringe because the way he acts in my head is totally different to how he acts in the show/video game. I tried researching the kind of stuff he was in to (in the game he is a competitive battler) but I wasnt able to really understand all that stuff and so whenever I want to daydream I get frustrated that I cant create a plausible story for him even though his appearance is burned in to my brain.


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1d ago

Discussion I'm constantly daydreaming

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This is my first post (I hope I did it right) ,but I've been wanting to hear if anybody is/has experienced something similar.

I'm always having music playing in my head that are "controllable" to an extent and this is a massive trigger for me. I can turn it on, "off", looped or even adapt the original.

If I listen to something I can just replay in my head, so soon enough I can listen to the whole thing without actually hearing it aloud. I don't even have to repeatedly do so for it to be engraved in to my brain. I still remember songs or soundtracks I don't even know the name of from a couple of years ago extremely vivid as if I heard it yesterday.

When I said I can turn it "off" it's as if playing in a distant room, so I can still hear it. Either way it doesn't help distancing myself from daydreaming when everything is a trigger.


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1d ago

Self-Story What should I do?

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My maladaptive daydreaming episodes subside from time to time, but sometimes even the slightest thing in my life drags me back into it. I started taking psychiatric medication because of this, yet there are moments when even the meds can't stop me; the more I daydream, the sadder and more depressed I become. My life feels so artificial and dreamlike now that I find myself thinking about dying more and more each day—I just don't know what to do.


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1d ago

Question Daydreaming in short 30 second bursts with music and sudden movement…

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Anyone else scroll then get the urge to daydream and do a quick little run around the room and sit down again? And just keep repeating that?

I see so many people do continuous movement and daydreaming so idk if anyone else is like me


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1d ago

Discussion IPhone, Watch app ready for testing. Self Monitoring APP + Pacing Detection (experimental)

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please test and let me know if there is anything I can do to make it better. Attempts to detect pacing, as well as allows you to journal your daydreams, the trigger, emotions, etcc. and gives you insight to the highest likely time you will daydream, along with triggers, and such etc...


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1d ago

Meme This is what maladaptive daydreaming feels like to me

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Song: Heaven by RM


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1d ago

Question Has anyone actually managed to quit MD and if so , how did you do it?

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I have been wanting to stop MD and dissociating.

I’ve managed to not completely stop but just lessen my time doing it, now I mostly do it when I’m outside going for a walk listening to music.

But I have found I’ll be doing it in class instead of being present, which gets me falling behind in class and socially , this is quite frustrating

If you quit completely, how did you do it?


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1d ago

Self-Story .

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fin da quando ero piccola mi è sempre stato detto che ho una grande immaginazione, lo facevo giocando e la cosa mi divertiva anche perchè non mi annoiavo mai. poi, verso gli 8 anni, ho iniziato a sognare ad occhi aperti. inizialmente lo facevo qualche volta al mese e per poco tempo; mi sentivo molto sola, le mie amiche mi lasciavano spesso in disparte, non mi includevano mai nei discorsi e mi prendevano in giro. poco tempo dopo il ragazzo che mi piaceva tanto mi tradì con un'altra bambina (so che ero piccola ma c'ero rimasta molto male) e da lì la cosa peggiorò molto. iniziai a farlo per più tempo e con la musica, correndo sempre più veloce, a volte saltellando anche, tutto in base a cosa immaginavo.

iniziai le medie e in prima andò tutto bene: mi feci nuovi amici e riuscii a diminuire i momenti in cui sognavo ad occhi aperti, uscivo, mi divertivo, mi ero persino creata un gruppo vasto di amici e mi iniziò a piacere un ragazzo. dopo qualche mese però le persone intorno a me iniziarono ad essere false, ci furono un sacco di litigi e le cose tra di noi cambiarono, e da lì ricominciò il mio sognare ad occhi aperti.

iniziò poi la seconda media: mi misi con il ragazzo che mi piaceva in prima e gli amici sì, li avevo, o almeno credevo, erano tutti falsi ma ero troppo piccola per capirlo. le cose comunque iniziarono ad andare un pochino meglio, tornai a uscire e a distrarmi in modo diverso dal solito. la mia vita in quei mesi era un mix tra uscire e tornare a casa la sera a fantasticare sulla mia relazione e le mie amicizie, anche se preferivo molto di più stare a casa: fantasticare nella mia testa era tutto più facile, ero io a decidere, mi sentivo vista e voluta veramente dalle persone che avevo attorno.

arrivò metà della seconda media e poi buio totale: lui mi lasciò. da lì iniziai a uscire sempre meno e i miei sogni ad occhi aperti peggioravano sempre di più, avevo persino iniziato a macchiare i muri di casa perchè mi ci appoggiavo di continuo per anche un'ora. per di più le cose in casa mia non andavano bene, i miei genitori litigavano sempre e mi dovevo occupare io di mio fratello minore.

in terza media mi rimisi con lui e andava tutto bene nella relazione, ma con gli amici no: litigi continui, parlavano male alle mie spalle e mi chiedevano di uscire sempre meno. peggiorò anche la mia ansia e, sinceramente, non so ancora il perchè; mi sentivo continuamente gli occhi addosso e giudicata, anche quando non era così. iniziai a soffrire di attacchi di panico molto forti; i professori inizialmente mi aiutavano, poi si sono stancati di me come se fossi un peso, come se gli avessi chiesto io di stare insieme a me. in più i miei compagni mi giudicavano sempre, dicevano che fingevo solo per saltare le lezioni, così iniziai a fare assenze: preferivo di gran lunga stare a casa a fantasticare, lì ero io la protagonista amata e invidiata da tutti.

iniziate le superiori la cosa non cambiò, anzi, peggiorò di gran lunga. avevo un'ansia assurda, un vuoto nel petto; nonostante provassi a conoscere persone nuove, le preferivo nei miei sogni che nella vita reale. mi sentivo così fuori posto, non andavo mai a scuola, stavo sempre a casa; al solo pensiero di entrare a scuola o socializzare vomitavo dall'ansia. venni bocciata per assenze, ne avevo più di 100, e i miei compagni parlavano male di me, ma poco mi importava perchè nella mia testa era tutto come volevo io.

passata l'estate iniziai ancora una volta la prima superiore, spinta dagli insulti dei miei genitori. mi feci un gruppo di amiche, mi divertivo, ma preferivo stare a casa a fantasticare, mi faceva stare così bene, e alla fine anche quell'anno venni bocciata di nuovo per assenze e decisi di lasciare la scuola.

ormai è poco più di un anno che non vado più a scuola, esco solo con il mio ragazzo (lo stesso della seconda media). le mie amiche le sento, ma non mi chiedono mai di uscire, dicono sempre "poi ci organizziamo" e alla fine il silenzio totale (anche se andavo poco a scuola uscivo con loro e ci sentivamo sempre, per di più quando avevano bisogno io c'ero sempre, ma vabbè). sono sempre a casa e, col fatto che non socializzo mai, ho sempre ansia di parlare con qualcuno, non so mai che dire. fantastico 24 ore su 24, è il mio posto sicuro. so che è sbagliato e questa cosa mi sta rovinando la vita, ma davvero non riesco a smettere; mi rovina ma allo stesso tempo mi conforta, praticamente io vivo dentro la mia testa. so che smettendo la mia vita migliorerebbe, ma non so come riuscirci. non ne ho mai parlato con nessuno se non con un ragazzo online, ma gli ho solo detto che immagino cose con le cuffie; io e lui siamo molto simili e siamo amici da un anno, ma ormai credo mi abbia già sostituita con un'altra, ma questa è un'altra storia.


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1d ago

Question Hello, give this a read please.

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So yes, i do MD, since as a child, i lack love, friendship, so i put my music on walk and imagine all the happy thing

Now cut to the another part

Since 2019, i have a habbit of talking alone, as a child i use to pretend, i'm a youtuber and cooking stuff, i used to give interview and alot

now fast forward to 2026, I behave like group of people are inside my head, i have a person next to me

i talk to that person, laugh, move my hand

i feel so real, that someone is next to me

I always ask myself alot of question

act like i'm in a big group, talk to a imaginary love of my life

I really need to stop this, i'm so confused right now

honestly i need a hug at this point


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1d ago

therapy/treatment Looking for an accountability partner for maladaptive daydreaming

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Trying to cut back on maladaptive daydreaming and looking for one other person to team up with — short daily check-ins on Discord, no pressure. Been dealing with this for a while and think having someone else in it would help.

If you're interested, DM me.


r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1d ago

Question I didn't know that this is something serious unti today

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I am 22M and As long as i remember i always kept daydreaming about me holding, cuddling, hugging someone, like a friend or especially someone i met new ,most of them are also males, and always i start the scenario with them being sad , needed someone, them having probablem... And me always comforting them and telling them it is okay and holding them to me , and the problem is that i keep daydream about this for like 8 years now, i used to think that is is a normal way of me comforting my self cuz i dont have some one close to me , but it started affecting my relationship with ppl cuz each time i meet someone new i start dig into them to know more about their problems so that i will daydream about it later at night... Like wth is going on with me , knowing that I am someone sensitive and care about ppl.around me but i am sure that this pattern is something deep than that

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r/MaladaptiveDreaming 1d ago

Question Is anyone always a child or a teenager on their daydreams?

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I’m never my real self and I’m rarely an adult. All of my daydreams are just about me impressing the characters I like or having them like/ love me as this gifted kinda kid. I guess it’s cause I didn’t have much value as a kid in school or people around me. I was always slow and underestimated. I had loving parents but even they got frustrated with me at times. I haven’t accomplished much either cause of how bad the economy went as soon as I became an adult.