Sci Guys 119: The Science of Maladaptive Daydreaming
Jul 26, 2021
02:20:13
Some people report being unable to stop daydreaming, to the point that it takes over their entire lives. Maladaptive Daydreaming isn’t yet a recognised disorder, but it only gets more strange from there...
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References & Further Reading
Maladaptive Daydreaming in the Media
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_daydream_that_never_stops
- https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/06/25/people-with-maladaptive-daydreaming-spend-an-average-of-four-hours-a-day-lost-in-their-imagination/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/when-daydreaming-replaces-real-life/391319/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/at-home/daydreaming.html
- https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/30/health/maladaptive-daydreaming-feature/index.html
Eli Somer
- https://www.youtube.com/user/SomerClinic/videos
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsZ7ivOSKjQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loE6Cq8lUS4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZxHmfpcsI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_scn44bTEE
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=cIDL8CEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Maladpative Daydreaming
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladaptive_daydreaming
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810016300460?via%3Dihub
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395621000844
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28598955/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6426361/
- https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2006/9/4/article-p1056.xml
- https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023/A:1020597026919.pdf
- https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/34/2/e100419
- https://maladaptivedaydreaming.org/pages/maladaptive-daydreaming-test
Pathologising, Disorders, & The DSM-5
- http://www2.hawaii.edu/~heiby/overheads_classification.html
- https://wjh-www.harvard.edu/~dtg/KILLINGSWORTH%20&%20GILBERT%20(2010).pdf
- Psychopathology
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1529100617727266
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683251/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683251/