Getting Lost In Your Head

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@HazySue (39268)
Gouverneur, New York
April 22, 2017 1:52pm CST
I think as someone who likes to write I have a way of getting lost in my head. What I mean by that is getting so involved in ideas, characters, situations, and such that the world fades away until it is far, far away. This morning my hubby kept trying to get my attention and I was busy off traveling in space and time. I tend to focus so hard on what my imagination is saying to me that I don't hear anything around me. It looks like you are just sitting there staring off into space, doing nothing, saying nothing, just existing. When I am doing that I am working my hardest. Do you get lost in your head?
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@Courtlynn (67083)
• United States
22 Apr 17
Sometimes. Not often.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
22 Apr 17
I wonder if I am just showing my age?
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@rebelann (112873)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Apr 17
I wouldn't dare do that, I'd be lost for months ..... hummm, then again maybe that'd be a way to lose weight??
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@rebelann (112873)
• El Paso, Texas
24 Apr 17
I've heard writers do that when creating their novels @HazySue Are any of the good authors like James Patterson or Stephenie Meyer ever overweight? Oh, in case yer wonderin I've never read their stuff .... I did read Jean Auel's works
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Apr 17
It's funny that you mention losing weight. We I am focused fully on building a person or scenario I do forget to eat.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
25 Apr 17
@rebelann It's a way of creating. I can't believe you haven't read one of their books. You have tot 4ry them. There might be a few authors that are overweight but most of them seem to be of average weight. Unless the pictures taken of them are taken at a very opportune time for them.
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@valmnz (17097)
• New Zealand
22 Apr 17
Oh definitely. I even have conversations with those people in my head at times. Even writing non-fiction as I mostly do, I'm lost in other worlds and other times.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Apr 17
I am glad there is someone else out there with me. I have conversations with characters I am building.
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@valmnz (17097)
• New Zealand
25 Apr 17
@HazySue it happens even in non-fiction!
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
25 Apr 17
@valmnz it does. I made characters up for the class one time for a story based firmly in history about the Great Wall of China. I made sure of the historical facts and added a little bit of action to it to help them learn the facts while enjoying the delivery of them.
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
22 Apr 17
Getting lost in my head is better than a ton of other things I can think of!
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Apr 17
@HazySue No, we are never lonely there and the people in my head are always nice!
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
24 Apr 17
@PatZAnthony Isn't it wonderful how you can create and visit with your characters at the same time?
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Apr 17
It's kind of fun in there. You are never lonely.
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@CRK109 (14556)
• United States
23 Apr 17
It's funny that you say that because the same thing happened to me just this afternoon! Felt pretty good to get away for a little bit even though I was sitting right here! lol
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@CRK109 (14556)
• United States
24 Apr 17
@HazySue Most often, that's how I fall asleep. I create a character, or I create a place and then I build a story. And while the story is playing out, I generally go right off to sleep.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
24 Apr 17
@CRK109 it is relaxing. I found that after a while it is almost lie meditating.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Apr 17
Sometimes it can be like taking a min vacation. I can see a person in my mind and place them somewhere in the past and weave a story around them.
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22 Apr 17
Sometimes I do, especially when I'm a bit frustrated. Then you tend to be so preoccupied.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
22 Apr 17
I am like that when I am creating or writing in my head. I become very involved in the characters and scenes.
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22 Apr 17
@HazySue I guess that's part of writing. You get carried away by the characters you write.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Apr 17
@lclacambra it certainly is part of it. If you don't thin of them as real people you can't make them seem believable to the reader.
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@dodo19 (47317)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
25 Apr 17
Yes, I do tend to get lost in thoughts as well. Maybe it's because I like writing too. Not too sure. But it does happen quite a bit.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
26 Apr 17
It most likely is because of the love of writing. I thin we all need time to let our imaginations run free.
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@Nawsheen (28643)
• Mauritius
23 Apr 17
When I am alone I do get lots of thoughts. However when I am around people this is not the case
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Apr 17
I can slip away at a moments notice and become focused on how I can use a phrase or image.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
23 Apr 17
So that means that you have found your brain then?
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Apr 17
Not yet, right now it is busy with other things and people. It is sitting in the land of make believe.
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 17
Yes, I do on occasion and I can get quite annoyed if someone interrupts me
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
24 Apr 17
So can I. I try to wait until I am alone but inspiration hits you when it feels like it.
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@mom210 (9117)
• United States
23 Apr 17
I do sometimes. Mostly I am in the world that says I need to do this and do that, hurry get this done, go there and so on.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Apr 17
I used to be in thaqt world, now I am in the outer world more often. I do a whole lot of writing in my head now. Mulling over people and situations and molding them into real people and believable happenings.
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@Deepizzaguy (102970)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
23 Apr 17
From time to time when i am playing baseball on my Nintendo Wii, I do find myself in a dream state.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Apr 17
I have heard that can happen.
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
23 Apr 17
Yes I do. I write and as you say I can be completely out of it
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Apr 17
Writing has a way of taking you out of the present and into the past or the future. You get to converse with people you don't know and mold them into someone who belongs in that date and time.
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
24 Apr 17
Sounds like a writer alright...lovely to daydream.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
24 Apr 17
People who do not write don't always understand.
• Valdosta, Georgia
22 Apr 17
I get that way when I'm thinking about things which also frustrates my husband too. Lol. I tend to over think things too often.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Apr 17
It frustrates my hubby too. He hasn't been able to understand that I am not ignoring him just busy creating.
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