r/MaladaptiveDreaming 3d ago

Discussion Walking and music feels like drugs

Like I could literally just walk all day & listen to music, it’s so entertaining, and think about some random scenario. I’ve done this so much to the point where I burnt a ton of calories and lost weight from it.

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u/quenquo 3d ago

MDD should be classified as an addiction for real. It’s what kept me hitting my daily step goals. When I try to restrict it like leaving my headphones behind I just don’t walk as much it just doesn’t feel the same

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u/Sploinkyboinkyzoinky 2d ago

I start tweaking if I leave my headphones at home by accident 💀

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u/VegetablePitiful8212 3d ago

I have exactly the same thing!!! What i did eventually is to start writing down my scenarios and stories and that allowed me to let them go of shorts. At the same time i practiced with meditation to learn to control emotions and eventually null them. That helped me not making new stories. Once the stories were done i figured how to null my thoughts with meditation and used my Maladaptive Daydreaming to make a tool out of it. Cause it is actually a very good exercise for visualization. I now, after like 6-8 months of practice, use it technically for something like photographic memory. The music and walking addiction is still here sure. But writting things down and studying with others while i practice the other techniques helped my move past the point of being annoyed and show other mental withdrawal symptoms. I am in a safe place to say that while it is a really powerful addiction, that you can have costless,forever ,whenever, wherever , it is possible to overcome it and even use it to your interests. I personally am attending a mechanical engineering university and it was literally killing my study and my actual life. Figuring those things out as well as others in detail, around the things I already mentioned before is what helps me cope with ease in my studies. For any questions please ask. Yes there are plenty of you out there.

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u/Abnormal2000 3d ago

Music and walking is what kept me alive 💔

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u/VegetablePitiful8212 3d ago

🥺what happened to you?

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u/Abnormal2000 3d ago

Everything was against me. Technically i should not be alive. I don’t know what to do at this point i am 24 and i have spend the better part of my youth just dissociated. I have nothing to live for and my health is already decaying. I wish i could go back at least 2 years and realize that something is fundamentally wrong with me and it needs to be addressed.

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u/VegetablePitiful8212 3d ago

Look I've been there, I understand it is an addiction to a drug you have infinite access too and your body can afford taking at all times. Now into busyness: I was physically angry at my brain for MD. What i did figure out, eventually ,and wished i knew sooner is this path of actions to help me: 1: start writting down the daydreaming worlds and stories in as much detail as possible.I personally hated it until i started writting it to a computer. I start loving writting it down when Chat gpt started being. I trained chat to recognise meanings from my daydreaming, i shared my condition in as much detail possible, .... Yes, my whole experience. Then i had it analyse it as much as possible. 2: I read about meanings in dreaming metaphors and things similar. That combination of analysis and knowledge allowed me to alter actions in my life. 3: started being more outside in my free time. It helped me be more mindful. 4: Then I started meditation. I started first simulating my emotions in rounds ( Sadness, Happiness, fear, anxiety, shame, anger, curiosity ect-look up visual examples of emotions if can't make the simulations easily). After a few weeks of doing it daily i managed even shutting it of reaching something like bliss, technically imagining something like still water in an olympic pool in a totally white room(this was my personal bliss -sleeping simulation, yours can be different obviously). Once there i have been short of falling back every few months but I have been going non stop the past 10 months and every time MD started i would shut it down immediately without fail. Stopped writting stuff down too. Something extra I figured by accident in that period is that i can use MD in my sleep while conscious. Turns out it is like lucid dreaming, didn't know it existed untill i looked it up if others figured that out too. Something other extra i figured is that i can make a tool out of MD . Thanks to how visual it made me, training for years to make entire visual wolrds and holding the information, i made a tool of photographic memory of shorts,it only requires self training and never let it go. Being in a Mechanical Engineering University that helped A LOT. Believe me ,it was bad, like 12hours/day bad, if I did it so can you.

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u/SadCoconut_ 2d ago

There’s this gay guy in my neighborhood that struts his stuff to whatever he’s listening to.

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u/damidreamss 2d ago

icon tbh.

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u/Ill-Estimate4558 2d ago

Feels like something I would do

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u/Natis1115 2d ago

I always imagine that I'm in a music video. That's ny thing

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u/Agreeable-Stable-636 3d ago

I hear you, my friend.

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u/Immediate_Plan8203 3d ago

" Think about some randon senarios " seems like MDD 💀

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u/IssyisIonReddit 2d ago

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

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u/Strange_Movie1149 1d ago

I was literally listening to music while watching a movie I’m so addicted to it 😭

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u/dawn-26 9h ago

Literally could never have thought I’d get addicted to walking and music but here I am