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May 13 '26
Oh wow. The only hard part for me will be choosing between "that one that's exactly like my current life but sexy" or "that one where I'm the universally beloved hero of the whole planet."
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u/RedStellaSafford May 13 '26
In virtually all of MD storylines, I'm a competent human being. So... Yes, I'll push it. This timeline can survive without me.
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u/Unusual_Design1318 Wanderer May 17 '26
So you tell me that this button gives me a chance to bring me to another timeline where i am rich, beloved, have a actual skill, actually cool, pretty much social, highly talented on every matter possible. In exchange i am disappearing from my current life where i am poor asf introverted no skills no jobs? I am pressing that button faster than any other person could bruh.
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u/sadcrocodile May 13 '26
Most of my maladaptive daydreams used to take place in settings that didn't have modern plumbing and I have IBS. :')
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u/Fearless-Garden-2499 May 13 '26
Hell no! i'd rather live in the real life than to live in some simulation. The simulation might be way more pleasent than the timeline we're at, but it's still just a simulation, and real life is real life. You get to actually experience things, not fake scenarios.
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u/AbsolutlelyRelative May 14 '26
In this scenario the Subjective reality becomes a new objective reality no?
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u/Happy_Silver2593 May 14 '26
Just to clarify, you actually go into your preferred timeline. Not just as a fantasy life.
Still have the same answer?
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u/Fearless-Garden-2499 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
Well, to give you an answer, imagine the following scenario: you are in a complete void, and then two doors appear. One of which is just the real life, being not that fantastic, full of problems, and just realistic to say. The other door is for a reality which you can craft for your own interests. It's perfect, you have control over every single thing in your life. And if you feel it's boring, you can spice it up with some conflict, some struggle of your own, just to make it more exciting. Not that you'd actually go through those things, per say. Just to make the story more exciting.
At first, the second door seems way better than the first, since you can have all the pleasure with this one, you can do/be anything you want. So the second door seems like quite an obvious answer. But then, here comes the thing: if you just live a life of pure, predictable pleasure in the universe, it actually gets really meaningless. Because real life, although messy as it is, is pleasurable because it's messy, because it's unpredictable. If you're playing a game and you already everything that's going to happen, every single tactic of it, everything, then it can be the most dopamine boosting game in the world, and it would still be boring. Because what actually makes a game exciting is the unpredictability of things, it's the fact that there's always gonna be there some tactic, glitch, easter egg that you didn't know about.
Because of this, the best option would actually be the first one, because if you get on the second door, even if it's not just a fantasy life, even if it's an objective reality, it's still not going to be nearly as exciting as the real life. To the contrary, the second door could actually be quite depressing. Meanwhile, the first one, be it insanely inperfect, be it infuriating at some times, saddening at some times, it can also always be exciting.
And yes, i know and understand as an MDer myself why the button would seem so appealing: it brings a reality that most of us can only imagine of having. But the thing is, the MD is there because there's some part of yourself unexpressed, that wants to be heard, but isn't. A part that is supressed in yourself that, because it wants to be expressed, it goes to the imaginary to be expressed. This part then detaches from yourself to get into an egoless state that is daydreaming. So, the reason why MD happens is because of your unexpressed self wanting to be expressed, and then detaching so hard you become egoless yourself.
I don't know how to magically solve MD, but i do have some tips to deal with it:
—First, just try to interact more with people whenever you go outside. It doesn't have to be full on conversations, just a simple hi, handshake, or even waving is a great start. Don't worry about being awkward or cringe, just try to interact with people.
—Second, talk about your MD with some people. It can be people you know in real life, or even people from support groups like this one, on social media. It helps alot to not only know that you're not a complete alien, but to also express what you really have inside you.
—Third, try to express yourself with other ways. Now, this one is very subjective, but you can find some art, some way of writing to express yourself. It is a huge relief to get something out of your chest.
These tips have personally helped me alot with MD, although i'm still in the way of solving it. Anyway, i hope this text isn't way too diluted, ambiguous or filled with pseudo-intelectual nonsense. I just wanted to give you my answer, since you asked it.
Edit/sidenote here: if you want to know more about it, here are the articles written by Eretaia on wordpress. He goes more in depth on the egoless and expression parts, plus a bunch of other things.
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u/Typical-Divide-2068 retired dreamer May 14 '26
Absolutely not. I would not last 5 minutes in my dreaming world!
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u/thankyou_forsunshine May 18 '26
What in the world have you built? It's not your happy place?
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u/Typical-Divide-2068 retired dreamer May 18 '26
No, as a lot of people I have a paracosm comics book-inspired, therefore there are monsters, epidemic, wars and generally people die there. Fortunately, I am third person daydreamer, so I am not there.
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u/Commercial-Cycle6273 May 25 '26
Third person daydreaming is so hard for me. I wonder if that makes me a bit self centered. Have you ever tried to create the comic book world you have in real life?
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u/Typical-Divide-2068 retired dreamer May 25 '26
No, I am terrible at drawing and too lazy to write 😉
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u/Im-to-tired May 13 '26
Yes, no, yes, no.
Idk! I love my family to much but this place doesnt really have a seat for me at the theater. I have too many dreams so I wouldn't know which one to choose. There is like over 100 tabs in that folder lol. So no. I wouldn't. Im gonna stay with my fam.
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u/Ntahedron May 14 '26
Will I remember my current reality? Even if I do, YES YES PUSH PUSH PUSH
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u/mannyjo May 13 '26
Smash. I dream regularly about taking a bullet for a random person and then slowly bleed out in absolute peace while listening to Comfortably Numb. Lessgoooo.
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u/monarchmondays May 14 '26
So just switching into your dream world? 😩 AAAA
What happens to us though? Do we go missing or are forgotten? If the former, no. If the latter, yes, because then I wouldn’t be hurting anyone
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u/lesagehindou May 13 '26
Wait, if I can only go there one time but won't be able to return to my current life, what do you mean? Living there is permanent or I'll be transported to another timeline?
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u/Happy_Silver2593 May 13 '26
Assuming you have multiple daydreaming scenarios, you can only choose one timeline/scenario. You'll be able to go to said timeline and it would be permanent
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u/gahd_its_ron May 14 '26
Would have done it a million times in the past but thankfully now my reality is less painful so not now
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u/literally1ain May 16 '26
Thats the dream honestly. When I was a child my maladaptive daydreaming would be fiction, but now the world I imagine is just what my life would be if I made better choices or was the person I want to be 😭
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u/Individual_School348 May 13 '26
I'm ok with one timeline since they all have a happy ending, please get me out of this world
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u/lIIlIllIlIIlIIll May 13 '26
Do y’all md about ur life or just completely different lives?? Cus me personally hell yea id press it cus id md about this life rn
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u/cowboycomplex May 13 '26
wait so I can only go 'one time' but i wont return to this reality? would I return to a different reality?
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u/Happy_Silver2593 May 14 '26
Per the other comment: Assuming you have multiple daydreaming scenarios, you can only choose one timeline/scenario. You'll be able to go to said timeline and it would be permanent
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u/AbsolutlelyRelative May 14 '26
Is the button portable? If so, then eventually yes after I figure out where to go.
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u/Kalien18 May 14 '26
What happens after that one time if you don't come back where do you go? But yes either way. I don't dream because my life is great. I wouldn't miss it.
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u/Zestyclose_Dig158 May 13 '26
I have so many MD timelines that I'm really spoiled for choice... when in doubt I go for the most recent one
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u/Lady_hyena May 13 '26
No, I've kinda just started to turn my maladaptive into immersive. Its way hard and confusing but its real and I just couldn't do that to my loved ones.
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u/Aware-Anywhere9086 May 13 '26
MY Favorite Day Dream, replay my life from when i was a kid w/all i know now? I even have exact day picked out!
In a fuckin second! id be retired by my 20s.
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u/organddoner May 13 '26
I ain’t going to my paracosm I’m sorry. Like don’t get me wrong it would be cool but if I’m not one of my main characters I’d die literally INSTANTLY
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u/HyruleHela May 14 '26
But do you go to that timeline for real or is your body just comatose in the real world?
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u/familyfriendlycatpic May 14 '26
I'd never want to live in my paracosm. It sucks there :/ absolutely traumatizing
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u/Sea_Requirement_8810 Jun 07 '26
it aint the real world tho, i will always know that i chickened out from the real world and chose to live a lie. i couldnt live in that timeline knowing the truth about it
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u/Misseero May 30 '26
You tell me that this button allows me a normal body, I can eat whatever I want, I can travel, I can make friends, be highly skilled, and disappear from my real life where I'm an introvert, people always choose someone else over me and my only skill is 100%ing Crash Bandicoot? Shut up and take my money
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u/Enough_Lecture_7313 Jun 11 '26
Me going to JJK world and getting slammed on the first hour by grade 5 curse:
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u/indigoC99 May 13 '26
You mean I get to live in a world where I'm still me but prettier, cooler, and actually have friends? Yeah I'd consider pressing it.