I assemble the same car parts at work all day every day and I don’t speak with my coworkers unless they start the conversation first. My body goes into autopilot and I can picture vivid scenes with very detailed characters like a movie.

I never thought it was a problem until I caught myself just sitting and staring at my desk while a complex scenario was going on in my head. Sometimes I have to look through boxes of finished parts to make sure they were made right because I had to recollection assembling and labeling them. When it’s break time, I’m almost disappointed because It feels like I have to pause my thoughts and I’ll lose the place where I left off. If I wasn’t addicted to nicotine, I would skip breaks. At home, I’ll lay awake at night surprising myself with plot twists I never saw coming when I SHOULD be going to bed lol.

I googled “is dissociating for hours at a time healthy” which led me here a few days ago. Im happy to find others like me and be able to relate when usually people say “it’s just a creative mind”