Hyperactive Imagination | ADHD Information

I have a very overactive imagination. It's probably because I was an only child and always had to find ways to entertain myself (constantly, too, because I get bored easily).

Yep, that's a good description of my "Racing thoughts".hey... i'm an only child, too!  i HATE it!!  i still  have "imaginary friends".

sometimes my thoughts move so fast that they're not even really have complete thoughts..;  more like vague impressions...  like you understand them on a subconscious level, but they come so fast that you don't really have time to consciously think them.  they're pictures or words, but it's like i'm aware that there's more to the thought than what's actually going through my mind.
Hey! I'm the only child...

...left of my peers...

Not left as in communist, but left as in out...
yeah like did anyone see that film 'what women want' with mel gibson and
he hears people's thoughts (actually i came in half way through so maybe
this was explained earlier) but at points he wasn't hearing anything at
ALL.... as if NOTHING was happening in there....

as if!

i don't even think non-ADHD actually have a time when nothing is going
through their brain. do they? Only if they're lawyers or politicians... I've been experiencing this since childhood and whenever I'm bored and just basically all day. Does anyone else experience this? Having pictures run through their minds 24/7?

 

         It's kind of like a stream of thought in the back of your mind and some times it meyanders to the forfront of your thoughts. This is why I like to 'troubeshoot' an idea by talking it out.  It's amazing how many times I can come up with a solution just by throwing out a bunch of half-thoughts that are bouncing around.

           Does anybody here NOT dream in color?

Hey, I didn't say I only dreamt in mostly white.

My dreams are so realistic that they must be in color, 3D, HiD, surround sound, Dolby, and widescreen.

They've got to be satellite, too, as I dream globally. I like the flying / fighting ones the best. High adventure. I bet my epi levels spike during my dreams.

I often wake up with the bed clothes stripped, sometimes ripped. In a sweat, sometimes nekked. I wonder what the "L" I dreamed... I've fallen off the bed even as an adult. I wake myself up b/c of a jumping motion, and the impact of landing back on the matress, and the bed is still swaying. When I used to sleep with my wife, it was dangerous for her. I'd kick, or hit. Not a nightmare, just an adventuremare. I've woken up LOL. I remember that one. Fake cockroaches at the dinner table.


            Survey says:

                                     Most men dream in b/w and most
women dream in color. {non-ADDrs}

                  Why would most men dream in b/w ?
Women we know use most of the left and right sides
of the brain and men use mostly the left {I think it's
the left} side of their brain.

                  My theory is that male ADDrs {mostly}
dream in color and have extreme vivid dreams
because in sleep mode our brains are still in high
gear and we have all these ideas that we have to
{need to} act on.
.

                   I use to have a repetative dream that I
could take a runing start, jump up in the air and soar
about twenty feet above the ground. I could turn and
stop at will.    It was a m a z i n g .

                    Of course this could all be a bunch of
malarky for all I know. But it's interesting to try to fill
in the gaps {not gasps}.



                 My right and left brain must be in a knock down, drag out battle for supremacy . . Depending on the topic, I dream in both b/w and color.
             r.man >

                             Wow, thats amazing . . .

            I'm speechless . . . I've never heard of that .

                              I'm going to shut-up now.

     Keep talkin', I didn't think that was "unusual" until you mentioned it.

and if you stand in the middle of a hemispherical mirror, you will never see what others see, just the back of your head.

                   r.man >

                     
                                     As usual I didn't say what I meant,
      
                   It's amazing 'cause: 1. I never heard of it
                   happening.

                  2. And most curiouser and curioser, I didn't                            
.           ;       think of the possibility.

                   It's as if someone said 'hey I can . . . ' .

                   Well as you can see, I can't think of one
                   darn analogy at the moment.
              
                   Did you ever find your explaining yourself /
                   thoughts / ideas to people in analogies     
                   because they seem to express better than
                   any other way what you'r trying to say ?   

                   I don't know if this helps me or not to get
                   whatever I'm trying to say across.