Pretty frequently my imagination will wander and then I’ll start thinking of a game or show that I like and I’ll imagine new story plot points and stuff. It’s very visual and vivid to the point where I complete forget I exist in real life. While I’m doing this, without thinking, I start jumping, flapping my hands, and repeated flopping myself onto furniture. I only get brought back into reality because I eventually exhaust myself by jumping around too much.
I’ve always hid this behavior, but I’ve been caught a few times and whoever catches me is always like “What are you even doing? Are you okay?” So I feel like what I do is probably really weird to most people. I am Autistic, but idk if it’s because of that or if I’m just weird cause I haven’t heard of anyone else doing it. I’m curious if anyone else does this or something similar.


Your experience seems pretty similar to mine. There’s been times where I’m so into it it’s hard to tell if I just spoke something I was thinking out loud, but I don’t think I actually have. Probs is some sort of daydreaming, but I don’t want to call it maladaptive cause I enjoy it so much.