Is it a bad thing to 'live inside your own head'?
I'm 17 and kind of a loner..I've been hurt a lot throughout life..Not that I'm asking for pity or anything but..One time in my life, I started living inside my own head. Which..Really, I think it's bad. I wanna come back to reality..What I mean by living inside my own head is that..I often question things, and go into deep thought over them..I make myself laugh with my own mental images..And I daydream all the time. I always was a daydreamer, but..This is intense daydreaming..Like, my own fantasy world in my head..That calms me down and keeps me happy. I mean, I daydream of true love. A girl. And I even know what she looks like.. People say its sometimes good to live inside your own head when you're in a great depression or something.. But the stuff I daydream about? I actually want it. But I'm too content with dreaming that I don't do anything about it. I'm used to doing it inside my head..I want to build a band, heavy metal..I want to sing, and play guitar. And I want lots of friends that protect me.. But in reality, I tend to avoid my friends..Finding them annoying. When I listen to music..I never JUST listen..I dream to the melody. And to be square, I hate reality..I hate it.There's so much stuff I can't do right now because of my age. I want to move of out of this forsaken place..Live somewhere where all my online friends are..Because the place I live in now? I'm discriminated against by everyone.But I can't move out..I can't go someplace else! My parents dont have the money. They hate it here, but they just can't move. I'm stuck..In this life thats the complete opposite of the one I dream about. And my dreams aren;t far fetched at all! They're simple dreams like hanging out with friends, and playing my 360.. I always stare off into space, and daydream..Because of that, most people in my school think I'm retarded, and scary.. You tell me!
Why do I keep making up bad scenarios in my head that make me cry, but also leave me with a feeling of comfort?
You most likely experience a significant amount of self-induced stress and have learned that a somewhat effective means of dealing with its is to think through all of the horrible things that could go wrong on that topic so that you won’t be caught off guard by any of them. You probably work yourself into a frenzy by doing this, resulting in decompensation by way of crying.I once heard the most remarkable statement regarding this:“Worrying is using the imagination to come up with outcomes that we don’t want.”Coming to understand that has freed me from worrying on hundreds of occasions. I recommend that you think through this and allow yourself some room for giving up attempts at controlling outcomes and forgiving yourself for mistakes that you make or have made.
Making up stories in my head, believing them?
This happened to my best friend, too. She started making up these kind of stories and believing them, and unfortunately, they were all about me, that I had done something bad, or something to her. And started telling her parents that I smoked, was partying, was sleeping with a bunch of boys, and that I been trying to sleep with HER, when in reality, I have never touched a cigarette, I am an extreme introvert and prefer staying at home at all times and I'm a virgin, and plan on being that for at least a while longer. Plus, I'm straight and I never tried to sleep with her. She then told her parents these stories (and she really believed that this was all true), who then told my folks about them. Needless to say, I got into a lot of trouble when I was completely innocent. Not soon afterwards, it became clear that all of this was not true, and she is now seeing a therapist, as far as I know. I'm sorry to say that I don't know a lot about this condition, but by this I am hoping to calm you down a little bit by telling you that you are not alone. And I think it's great that you have actually realized that this is happening, and are aware of it. My advice is to talk to your parents or someone close about this, and think about seeing someone who knows more about this. Oh, and don't blame people about something that you think they did unless you are completely certain that it's true. I don't want other people to loose their family like I did (we used to be so close, and now they just... don't look at me like they used to), when I never did anything wrong.
I keep on making up sad scenarios in my head?
It's seems like i can't contol them. For example, i will be be sitting around and all of a suddeni will see this 'vision' in my mind of someone i love getting hit by a truck. Ussually it's really detailed too, and sometimes i forgot that it's just fake. It is making me upset when i think of it. Sometimes though i fantasize in my head me doing something really evil to an enemy of mine- and that gets me happy. So i guess i have a vivd imagionation. Does this happen to you guys? Thank you.
The Mind: Why do I make up conversations in my head and sometimes I even find myself saying them out loud?
I once had the same problem and wow! it is irritating; And to be honest, it seems I still do a little.The additional problem arises when you attempt to resist/stop the continuous thought process. This isn't a mental problem as you suspect, it's simply a mental habit -- a repeated (mental) behaviour that has ingrained in your neural pathways (fundamentally).Chetan Sawai's answer is most accurate.I found that meditation helps a lot with this problem. Frequent practice will inevitably eliminate it.
Do you make up stories in your head?
Yes! I remember when I had my first crush, I wanted the day to pass by quickly so I could go to sleep and make up stories about us. That was one and a half year back though.. now I make up stories about everything. I am not that good at making characters so I use people I already know or wish I did. I pay attention to every little detail.. what clothes they wear, every word they say, every move they make. It all makes it much more interesting. I make stories about things I wish would happen to me. From getting good marks on a test to becoming a country music recording artist.. it has it all. I even make those detective kind scenarios where I become the hero of the story.. like Superman. I love the romantic ones I make.. they put me to sleep a little too easily. I can lucid-dream too so when I drift off to dreamland.. I'm halfway through my real story and then I can control the story that my dream creates. I don't make much sense but its so much fun! :D
I make up stories in my head before going to bed and during the day, is this normal?
When I was like 6, I would make up stories in my head like, when I was going through a Teen Titans phase and a Winx Club phase I would make up a cool fairy or superhero and make up stories with my character in the Winx Club/Teen Titans world and it'll all drag out and take up a lot of my time. At around the age of 10 I suddenly realised how I loved making up those stories as they helped me escape reality. And I feared that when I'll grow up, I'll run out of ideas or become too boring to make the stories up anymore. Now (I'm 13)they get more serious, involving more realistic and detailed plots, etc. And even though I still love making the stories up in my head, I wonder, what if I have some weird mental problem? I asked some of my friends if they did that, and they just starded at me so I didn't mention it again, but maybe somebody else has the same thing going on.