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there are some people who can return to the same place in a daydream, this person says she had daydreamed (daydreamt?) 79 years of an imaginary world

https://theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/28/i-just-go-into-m...

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I don't return always to the same one (that sounds boring) but certainly have a "portfolio" of daydreams and scenarios that I go back to. It started as a kid where I'd want to be a cowboy or a longbowman or whatever and just started playing those "movies" in my head. It's odd for me to accept that others don't do this. I would think that everyone can do it, but most people choose not to, the same way everyone can draw and learn how to draw and use that to day dream but most people don't.

Same thing happens to me. I swear that I have been in the same imaginary train station at least a dozen of times and in various scenarios. I wish it would have been a cooler place but I often take the train in my life, so there am I. It got even sillier when I got a short phase of lucid dreaming just because I learned over time that this place is in my dreams.

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