Call for research participants We invite adults who are 18 years old or older to participate in this study. We are seeking participants who believe they have maladaptive daydreaming* and who are taking, or have taken in the past, psychiatric medications or recreational drugs. If you agree to take part in our study, you will complete a brief online questionnaire, which asks about your daydreaming habits, and your use of psychiatric medications or recreational drugs. You will be invited to indicate how each medication/drug has influenced your daydreaming, and the severity of any side effects. The entire survey should take no longer than 20 minutes to complete.
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*For the purposes of this study, we define daydreaming as fantastical mental images and visual stories/narratives that are not currently part of your life. With fantastical we mean that the content of the experience is remarkable, bizarre, or unrealistic in some way. Examples of this kind of immersive daydreams that can be included would be hanging out with a favorite celebrity, winning a gold medal in the Olympics (unless you are an Olympic level athlete), having a romantic affair with an attractive co-worker who isn’t interested in you, living in a parallel fantasy world, imagining violent, scary or tragic events that had never happened to you, engaging in heroic or rescue actions, etc. Any daydreams involving fictional characters or plots should also be included.” In contrast, we are not interested in mind wandering such as any thought or image that is unrelated to the task you are currently doing or your current surroundings. Examples of mind wandering would be while listening to a lecture you are thinking about or imagining what to eat for dinner later, planning for future activities such as mentally preparing for a meeting with your boss, or thinking about your mental “to do” list; while driving in traffic you reminisce about some old friend you have not seen for a while; or while reading a book you think about being upset over something that happened to you and is unrelated to the book.