courage, your word.

madd/neuronarrative sideblog, mainly for my ongoing semi-linear daydream Pax Borealia. (he/him pronouns) i like/follow with thelastontariopirate!

[sunbeambutch]

does anyone have those moments where you think of an amazing new scenario and you can’t wait to replay it a thousand times over and over in your head and polish it until it’s perfect and you just feel a l i v e

[soft-madd-babey]

Am I the only one that often doesn’t daydream about myself?

Around 75% of my dreams don’t feature me, they’re just my babies doin their thing n I haven’t heard of anyone else doing that.

[astralmadd]

I'm working on a playlist for one of my paras rn!

[paracosmicanomaly]

Reblog and leave a comment or put in the tags any quirks/hobbies/interests you’ve picked up because of your OCs/paras!

Idk if this is really a madd-specific thing, but I want to know more about other people’s experiences :3

[a-madd-world]

Maladaptive Daydreaming Tags:

madd 

actuallymadd

actually madd

maladaptive daydreaming

maladaptive daydreaming disorder

Not Maladaptive Daydreaming Tags:

md

mdd

actuallymdd

Just a reminder (or an announcement to newcomers), please do not use the tags 'md’ ‘mdd’ and/or ‘actuallymdd’ for maladaptive daydreaming posts. Those tags are used for other disorders and we should be courteous to them. If you could reblog this so other madders could see this, I would really appreciate it. Thank you <3

[gnarlyninja]

once you realize you can make playlists for your ocs and stories there’s no going back. music will never be the same. you can’t listen to those songs the same way again. once again ocs literally ruin your entire life

[somaddicouldscream]

My brain when daydreaming

My brain when studying

[maladerptive-dayscreaming]

a MaDD poem

Was pacing around My mind was free There was a table Stubbed my knee I regret life The end

[alecisdaydreaming]

Are there any other male’s with MADD out there?? I don’t come across many :/

[veiledindeceit]

MaDD culture is resisting the urge to vomit every time you see That post. You know which post. That post.

[astralmadd]

That really helped, thank you!

No problem, anon! <3

[astralmadd]

Hey I daydream excessively but I mainly do it with my book characters and not so much with myself (however I still do it). But the thing is that I can stop daydreaming whenever I know there are other things I need to be doing. I still have triggers like music/books/tv shows but the daydreaming doesn't take over my life. Other than that, I can pretty much relate to everything about MaDD. Is this still MaDD? Thanks

Hello there, anon!

I understand totally. I don’t really daydream as myself (or a parame) often, either, and I know a few other people in the community who daydream with their OCs or book/movie/etc characters rather than as themselves.

If your daydreaming is vivid but not necessarily harmful, though, I think the word you’re looking for is neuronarrating. (I’ve seen people use NN for short) It’s a term for vivid daydreaming with a lot of traits associated with MADD (pacing, etc.), except it doesn’t necessarily interfere with everyday life on a major scale like maladaptive daydreaming would. So all maladaptive daydreamers are technically NN, but not all NNs have MADD, if that make sense?

I hope this helps <3 Feel free to hit up my inbox if you’re curious about anything else, m’bud.

[euporiavortex]

MaDD culture is reading entire books and doing extensive reasearch just to gather info for your daydream universe

[baby-im-madd]

GUYS GUYS GUYS I found this really cool app called Timeline and its perfect for organizing your paras lives, because if you’re anything like me it’s extremely difficult to figure out dates and stuff and remember them. Have fun wasting your life like me wooooo

[astralmadd]

1, 5, 8, 15 for the para ask!

aaaaa thank you!

1.) Describe your current paracosm/daydream.

It’s set in Canada from the start of the second millennium to the current age, focusing on history as told by semi-immortal personifications called avatars (it’s kind of weird and complicated)

5.) What genre would you classify your daydream/paracosm as?

Political dramedy, historical fiction and fantasy realism.

8.) List your five favorite moments that have happened in your daydream.

Oh jeez uhh there’s a lot, in no particular order:

Sam getting shot in the chest mid-monologue by his royally pissed-off, estranged “little brother” Leslie.

Nathaniel, Connie and Beverly trying to convince Jean to join the revolutionary effort. Jean, mind, has a very scant grasp of English at this point and barely understands half of what the f**k they’re saying. Everything goes downhill and it escalates into a brawl.

Colin (unsuccessfully) trying to run away on a horse and start his own province because of bullcrap.

Catherine and Jean fighting over “”custody”” of Pascal because avatars don’t know how to share and Pasc is just So Tired™

Pretty much every scene focusing on the characters’ childhoods, just living their day-to-day lives before shit hits the fan for the hundredth time. 

15.) What is your para/parame reluctant to tell people?

Dunno how to answer this one, but Jean is super slow to open up and he’s reluctant to tell people just about anything.

[madd-about-everything]

how much do you tend to move around when you daydream? (not including pacing)

[astralmadd]

heyo, if anybody might need help for coming up with names for paras/characters, i’d be happy to help! 

just hmu (on or off anon) with a gender, ethnicity/nationality, brief personality description, any possible meanings/associations you might want and anything else that might be important, and i’ll fetch some character names :>