I make up stories in my head... is that normal?

I have the weirdest little habit. As if my brain weren't over-active enough i make up all these crazy scenarios in my head. I actually sat down one day and tried to find an explanation as to why i do it, and i couldn't. I'll just be sitting all alone and my mind will drift off into some perfect world where my boyfriend doesn't think i'm crazy and i can sing without my voice cracking like a teenage boy going through puberty. It's not fantasizing. No, fantasizing is normal. I would be absolutely positive that this wasn't normal if i hadn't heard somewhere that making up such things in your head keeps you from going crazy. I'm beginning to think it's a little too late... Just recently for example, i made one up about the day i would get back home and see my boyfriend (I'm on "vacation" right now with my un-bearable family) for the first time in forever. The majority of our relationship has been long distance because he asked me out just before we left. Sometimes i think these stories are going to ruin things between us because in every scenario i make up he's perfect and charming and such a gentleman. I doubt he can live up to the expectations I've fabricated in my head, therefore when i see him i'll be nothing but disappointed. I feel like by making up all these bull poop scenarios i'm only subconsciously raising my expectations to heights reality will never be able to reach, thus leaving my self constantly disappointed. Jeez i sound like some crazy therapist lady right now don't i? Eh, now you know what my brain is like, babbling and nonsensical and crazy. Just like me :)

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  • phillostopher

    I do this for people I'm not even going out with. People will almost always not live up to your expectations, but you can try and replace those stories with memories of things he has actually done. Idk, I;m always trying to solve problems, but thats what I try to do. Sometimes people who dont live up to my expectations romantically dissapoint me so much, but then they do cool things in persona dn I just think about that and it helps me to stop expecting so much out of them. Gotta remember that they have expectations for you as well, and thats another totally different type of paranoia...

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  • lol loads of people do this pal

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  • hugabug

    I do the same exact thing, I think it's completely normal, though i think your right about the disappointment. It def sucks.

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  • Enizzle is so mean! I do it too. Loads of people do it but they do not admit it!

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  • hi_my_name_is:Sara

    it's like you are me ;P

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  • Galvani

    Normal, I do it almost 24/7 even when busy. Only time I don't do it, is when talking with someone, or need to think seriously. It just shows we are the visual kind of people.

    Meaning we think in pictures, scenarios and movies.

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  • Clarkey.boy

    comepletly Normal

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  • do it all the time

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  • Stephie43

    I know I'm late to this whole thing, but I do it too. I do it all the time It happens when I hear music but it's not only me...

    I make stories and scenarios about others and make up characters and soundtracks, and..

    It's a beautiful talent, especially if you're a writer and/ or a filmmaker.

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  • randypete

    you are comepletly Normal

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  • NormalIsOverratedBeANinja

    I've done this all my life. From crazy fantasy scenarios to just picturing the way the conversation I'm having might look in a book. Honestly I didn't know other people did that, or care.

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  • Enizzle

    Yep. Totally whacked off your gourd. Enjoy a life of confused bumbling idiocy and impossibly high standards while you're busy rubbing fecal material into your hair and having long in-depth conversations with any of your 30 cats.

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  • PBJ

    Just get yourself a video game to play with. Thats enough fake reality for you.

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