SNap ouT of It !!!

Daydreams are the fertile soil in which our imaginations flourish.....
they incubate creativity.

Were you admonished as a child to get you head out of the clouds?
Quit daydreaming? Come back to earth?

Well, unfortunately so was I.

Ok...so it's taken me decades to unlearn the impulse to be practical.........................

"Unlearn the impulse to be practical"

That's a good one!

Imagine what you could accomplish if you were encouraged to daydream.


If you were encouraged to daydream, where would you go?

When you were a kid gazing out the window during math class, where did you go?
What were you doing?




~gourmet~

Great new thread Gourmet.
My mother would punish me for being a daydreamer.
And every time a report card came home that would say I was a daydreamer.
I'd get punished twice as much.
My mother isn't AD/HD and has no understanding of it.

Now my daydreams take me to the things I want to do.
If I can see it in a daydream I'm able to make it happen.
I live in two worlds everyday the real one and the one of daydreams.
It works for me.:)

Seems that's all I did befor I was dignosed at 47. Maybe that's why I have the talents I do. Daydreaming cause one to look deep into the working of ones self.

"So you like to daydream ? tell me about where you like to go" This has always been a good line to get girl talking about herself. Although many don't need a intro. LOL

When I was a child I used to get into major trouble for daydreaming. People called me stupid for it and that I wasn't being "real" whatever that means. But I still do it...only when no one is around or when I look outside. I become someone else...happier more at easy...

I have to agree I to live in two worlds, the daydreams and the "real" life. I love my daydreams and I wouldn't trade them for the world. People say only kids can have daydreams but for me its how I get stuff done durning the day...it's important for me to have them

My name was "bubble boy". I was called that during my childhood.


Letsee... my favorite daydreams were based on Ray Bradbury type ideas. I liked space travel and would imagine myself traveling through space. I pretty much had those daydreams until my wife left me.... I notice that they are less when I am not so stressed out.... then my imagination heads outward and is highly creative.

I daydream in reality now... reality and daydreams have fused.... I am not in a rocketship but I have many things that I enjoy being creative about :)

Yes, I did it as a child, and I still do it today.
Me :D

Admonished? I'd get a whuppin'.

Of course they didn't bother me that much because I could tune them out like anything else.

Daydreaming to me is the creative self with in. I use to imagen I was a savor of kids in trouble. Now I go to help build orphanges in Peru. I use to imagen myself as a fronteersman and for about 20 years I did French and Indian war re-inactments. I also imagened myself infront of others showing off my works, now I am an artist.
>I found reality in my giving of myself and found myself with that giving.

Dave! YOur daydreams came true?! It looks like you all have tapped into your creative source.

Wow. The imagination is a powerful thing. Thank you for sharing....for coming back to earth to tell us! :D



~gourmet~

I use to imagen having my art hanging in the big houses around DC and I found myself painting murals. I would dream of my art hanging in galeries then I bought into one which was a disaster but now the prospect is great for my work to be in the National Indian Musium in DC.

If they get in it's all God's doing. I have never puched my work and it seems good things find me.

Thanks Gourmet

I had a "disaster gallery" too about 8 years ago. It was a dream of mine and was worth every minute even though I eventually had to close after four years. When doors close other doors open. That is when my paintings began moving. Good luck with your entries into the NIMuseum. I would love to go there to see your work. :)

Don't ever let your feet touch the ground DAVEHAWK, because you are living life !
That makes me feel so good :)


~gourmet~

Thanks, As long as the body hold out, I will keep on the run. You do the same.

"Great new thread Gourmet.
My mother would punish me for being a daydreamer.
And every time a report card came home that would say I was a daydreamer.
I'd get punished twice as much.
My mother isn't AD/HD and has no understanding of it.

Now my daydreams take me to the things I want to do.
If I can see it in a daydream I'm able to make it happen.
I live in two worlds everyday the real one and the one of daydreams.
It works for me." ~quote stori_813


Thanks stori :) Thank goodness for our daydreams. I've always had the ability to entertain myself.....something retained from childhood. What I lack in real life I can always make up for in my imagination through art or writing.

We should all retain our ability to dream as children do...think of the realities that come from daydreaming possibilities!

My report cards were just like yours :)


~gourmet~

:) Thank goodness for our daydreams. I've always had the ability to entertain myself.....something retained from childhood. What I lack in real life I can always make up for in my imagination through art or writing.

We should all retain our ability to dream as children do...think of the realities that come from daydreaming possibilities!:)
After reading this it made a scary thought come to my mind.... do you think kids are less able to "daydream" nowadays? I don't mean as in allowed I mean as in able even AD/HD kids? Gourmet, you said you were always able to entertain yourself, and that we need to retain our ability to dream as children do..... but with the amount of televisions in bedrooms, and on all the time, less family meals, more video games, computers, ect kids are less likely to need to or have the need to daydream, they don't need to entertain themselves.... this to me is a scary thought. What happens when these kids grow up? Does the creativity of the world go away.... OR.... *brainiac moment *muah*kiss*my*brain* rely soly on AD/HDers because everyone else has lost the ability :eek: ok, I'm off my :soapbox: and leaving it up to you smart ladies and gents, I wanna know what you think.....

I have often wondered if our kids and then their kids will become these zombies because they spend WAY to much time in front of the TV. My daughter had a TV in her room but I took it out once I realized she didn't actually need it to sleep she just liked to stay up late watching films and she's only 2!!!! So now we just listen to Enya and have a soft night light...she sleeps much better and I'm hoping her dreams are filled with exciting things!!

When I was a kid I remember my parents having a 13 inche TV that was only for the news if it was important news and then us girls got to watch PBS kids after our naps. We were not allowed to watch movies and at the time I HATED it but looking back I'm SO happy I was able to use my creative side and just GO....I still have this HUGE imagination. And when I was younger it was filled with tree forts, mud pies, every type of tag you can think of .... playing house in the middle of a tall grass field...riding bikes, going the parks..mud fights....paper dolls...BOOKS......

I very much want to raise my child to LOVE the outdoors and enjoy just playing..she already plays house with her baby dolls and she loves to sing the pop songs on the radio, loves the outdoors ...she still loves her TV but hey when dinner needs to be made and the house is a mess and they just won't take a nap on a Saturday afternoon...The Pooh Bear movie is the way to go!! :D

As a kid, I didn't have a tv in my room, in fact I didn't have my own TV until I bought it for my dorm room, lol... and had to beg my dad to put the cable into my room when I moved back home, lol. We used to have the old school Atari and Nintendo, I'd play with my Dad, which was great bonding, and hand-eye cordination skills... we only had the basic games so it wasn't like it is now with all the games. (we had paddle/frogger/pacman and duckhunt/mario.... lol that was it) I love it!!! But I also loved the time I spent playing with my mom in the kitchen (I've never been allowed outside much because of my skin :( ) but she'd make it fun with playdough type stuffs, and that magic clay that you can harden and paint.

Also leggos, marble works, and lots of little people towns were my toys of choice. I would set up entire worlds practically, lol. Building was always the way I played alone. I feel like now, if a parent wants their kid to "play" alone they can just send them into thier room with the tv and a "plug-in-play" (which by the way I have, now at the age of 20, lol). I just wonder what it is doing to thier imaginations?

It's true there are plenty of good things they could watch, like Pooh, or Nick Jr, that are age appropriate and encourage growth and development, but some parents just stick their kids in the room and don't care what they tune to (especially the 6-11 year olds I think are most effected by "TV babysitting")

well enough :soapbox: for now, lol :D just ranting I suppose, I do know that at least ADDers will have imaginations in the future, if no one else does, lol....

My youngest son had to write a paragraph in the second grade about what he did at home during his free time.

" I get to watch my farvorite tv show and then my mom tells me to go do something creative" Awwwww :)

I believe we should see to it that our children have all the pretend they need in their lives...... in their rooms, playrooms, and outside in their yards. Creative ideas lead to productive lives and fulfilled dreams.

When my kids were tiny babies, we learned early to let them calm themselves from a good cry in their cribs. This taught them from the very beginning that it was okay to be quiet and think for yourself.....make your own sense of your own little world.

My oldest son became a different make believe character almost ever other day while he was a young child...he even had an imaginary friend....which was kind of hard on us because we never knew which chair we could sit in! Don't want to squish "George".

By all means..let's put limits on those programs and video games....don't use them as baby sitters. :)


~gourmet~

Yes, yes, yes!!! Gourmet, I have no doubt your children will be daydreamers just like us, lol. They will have the creativity they need to run the world, we need more children growing up in that type of environment!!! you go girl!!! :D

Hi - I haven't thought about this, as when I was a child, for many decades, but this question 'jarred' my memory - when I was young, almost through High School, I day-dreamed so often that I created and lived in my own worlds with other people; sometimes, at night, they scared me, but they were actual places where I would go and play and live. Sometimes, I was taken to these 'day-dream' worlds by others.
As an adult, I day-dream very often, sometimes too often and so I try to curtail it because, although they can be creative, they can lead to imaginary-false conclusions, which I find are not correct in 3- dimensional living or the 'fantasy' of daydreaming will make 3D living / decisions more difficult because of conclusions gotten from day-dreaming. I don't know if this makes any sense, but this is how it is for me.
Bruce

Since reading this post it's been a good "HELLO BE A GOOD MUMMY" jar for me. So thanks!!! I'd very much rather my child have my imagination than need a TV to set a spark in her little brain!!! :D

Her room is filled with girlie things, like a tinker-bell tent that she can play with her dolls in or "read" her picture books in. Sometimes we'll go into it together and just whisper nonsense back and forth..she loves to whisper.

We also have a dress up box that is now at her little friends house and it's all about the Disney princess in that box...they go wild crazy dressing up...

It's nice to know other people don't want their kiddies to become ZOMBIES!!! I like the TV and all and watching movies is fun. But really games, outdoors, being creative isn't that what life is really all about????

One of my favorite quotes is 'What if Einstein was on Ritalin'...
If you squash our 'daydreams', you will squash all creativity....And all theories that all others view as wonderful theories.
Nova

I daydream during my daydreams. Sounds weird but I do. Sometimes I start a daydream and I get knocked off it by something even more absurd.

motorbrain,

I do that, too. It's impossible to explain to those around me. How do you answer when someone asks, "What are you thinking about?"

The other thing I've never toried to describe to anyone until now (because maybe someone here can relate) is that my mind often times seems to be, literally, in two places at once. It's like this....I'm alive and present here in the real world and present time that everyone else is living in, but at the same time, I am living another life, concurrently, in my mind that is practically as real to me. In this "mental life" I do the things that I am planning to do, wish I was doing, or wish I had already done in "real life." The time and place is highly variable, and it jumps around quite a bit. This "mental me" may even find myself daydreaming....or living another "mental life" within that one.....

Is that daydreaming....or something else entirely?