I make scenarios in my head past the basic daydream. Instead of just thinking about what I want in the future and letting it go, I create entire lifetimes in my head and keep the story going over a course of days.
For example; After I graduate from high school, I want to take a gap year. So for the past two/three days I've thought up an entire computer science internship program I'd like to take. And I've created this guy [gave him a background story, specific features, even flaws, etc.] that I would meet there and I'd like him more and more. I've also made up new friends I'd like to meet and gave them background stories, specific features, and flaws, as well. Then I keep going so far as to finish off the rest of my life [kids, where I live, who I'll marry, etc.]. I do this quite often only with different situations [travelling the world, not getting a scholarship and staying (god forbid) in my hometown, starting a serious relationship in HS] and they go very far.
I'm not a writer because I rarely finish what I should and I only do it if I have to [article for journalism, English class, scholarship essay, and so on]. Is there a name for this or is it just extreme daydreaming? I've never really heard of others who do this.
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