One can only dream.
Travelers are practicing new methods to make the duration of their journey go by a little faster – even if it means slipping into a state of delusion.
Many people started implementing the viral travel hack “raw dogging”, in which passengers stare into oblivion for up to 12 hours until they reach their destination.
However, some people have discovered maladaptive dreams, where they stare off into the distance thinking about different life scenarios they could live in.
“Malproper daydreaming is a behavior where a person spends an excessive amount of time daydreaming, often becoming absorbed in their imagination,” explained the Cleveland Clinic.
The practice, which encourages people to think hard, is gaining popularity among women, but some people believe the concept is a more obscure travel hack than “raw hacks” because it allows one’s imagination to run wild.
A 15-second TikTok clip posted by New Yorker Makenzie, who goes by @speeckofsunlight online, shows how she looks delusional.
“POV: You use the train ride to look out the window like you’re in a movie and create scenarios for over an hour,” the video’s text overlay read.
Another travel dreamer, Eden Fox, confessed to imagining different life scenarios as she waited to reach her destination.
“Seems like a perfect day to look out the train window and create 15 different plot twists in a situation that ended 6 months ago,” she wrote in her video.
Neuroscientist Mark Williams claims that nightmares can be a way to cope with anxiety.
Maladaptive dreaming occurs when people use daydreaming to cope with a mental health issue such as anxiety. It’s maladaptive because it affects their lives in negative ways,” he told Escape. “They will often spend hours daydreaming when they are at work, school or with loved ones, instead of interacting with the people around them and getting real work done in real life.”
Fellow TikTokers resonated with the dream travel hack, feeling grateful that they’re not the only ones practicing this method.
They shared their thoughts about the concept in Dr. The comments section of Sermed Mezher’s videos, with over 6.4 million views, where he describes bad dreams.
“Glad to know I’m not the only one who creates ghosts of my life inside my head,” wrote one TikToker.
“I’ve been a dreamer misfit all my life,” one person confessed. “I still do it, but instead of it being real-life scenarios, it’s characters that I’ve created and I go into their world.”
“I do this a lot! Sometimes it’s so bad I cry and my heart beats extremely fast,” added another.
However, Williams said that maladaptive daydreaming is not something to be crazy about, especially if you have issues with your mental health. He encouraged people to consider other ways to help pass the time while traveling.
“It’s a way of escaping reality and not a healthy coping mechanism. Habitual daydreaming only becomes maladaptive when you use it to cope with a mental health issue and it begins to affect your daily life in significant ways. It becomes an intrusive and regular phenomenon during normal activities”, he concluded.
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