Maladaptive Daydreaming Hurts Your Manifestation

I’m not saying this to alarm you, but maladaptive daydreaming is the reason you can’t manifest your goals.

When you focus your attention on a vision that you don’t either truly want to happen or can’t physically occur in this world, you’re going to manifest aspects of something that’s a bad fit for you and could even be toxic.

What Is Maladaptive Daydreaming Anyway?

Not everyone has heard of maladaptive daydreaming, so let’s define the term.

Maladaptive daydreaming is when you spend an unhealthy amount of time fantasizing fictional stories. You’re immersed in that disembodied narrative, and it’s separating you from time spent in awareness of your body and the world around you.

A lot of people use this to cope with trauma or difficulties in life, though creatives, introverts, and neurodivergents might suffer from it even if everything else in their life is amazing.

So it can happen to anyone. It’s probably happening to you right now.

Alternative Reality Manifestation

Living in this disembodied narrative can cause mutant manifestations.

The first possibility is reality shifting. You may recognize this term from when it trended on social media during lockdown. Reality shifting is when somebody is so immersed in their daydream, they may shift into an alternative reality. Perhaps they believe they really lived as a student of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter world.

It sounds crazy, but people have reported memories that have lasted months. Something unusual is occurring.

However, their body still exists in this one, so when they’re prompted by an interruption, their consciousness slams back into their physical form.

Hollywood and fiction have created a false picture of what magick really is in our timeline. Because of that, trying to manifest Hollywood magical powers is never going to happen. It breaks the laws of physics.

The daydreamer may be able to visit that alternative reality where such magic does exist in that form, but they can’t transport their body there. It’s only a spiritual and mind transfer.

The person’s psychology might have changed, and their experiences come with them as memories, but their body and material circumstances remain the same. It’s not a holistic manifestation.

Real Life Manifestation

The second possibility is narrative shifting which is when someone daydreams a story that is possible in our timeline to some degree. It may still have fantastical and impossible elements, but a strong focus of the daydream is comparable. The essence of the daydream can manifest in our timeline.

This would be like someone who daydreams of saving their family and friends from a dangerous situation. Even if that dangerous situation in the daydream was rescuing them from an evil wizard, the person may come back into their body afterwards and attract that opportunity to themselves.

Perhaps there’s a home invasion and the person must risk their life to save their loved ones. They might willingly and gladly do this, but may have inadvertently attracted the event and manifested it by leaving the front door unlocked at night.

You unconsciously try to manifest what you vividly daydream about.

This is why it’s really important to be careful and intentional about your daydreams, especially if they’re immersive to the point you feel as if your reality has shifted.

Time to Workshop

Should you never daydream? Nope. Go ahead and do it for fun or to purposefully manifest something you desire.

But you need to approach it with the understanding that it’s a powerful technique that requires responsibility and finesse.

Let’s workshop this: imagine someone is single and they want to fall in love. They decide to use daydreaming to help them visualize their goal and manifest it using that spiritual power.

However, they’re likely to find that daydream drifting into a narrative that can be toxic just because it’s exciting and story-oriented with a conflict and resolution. They’re used to reading and watching stories where the love interest is a “bad boy” who needs to be redeemed. So their visualization has that element.

This would result in connecting with someone in the real world who has toxic qualities that need to be fixed. The daydreamer may be willing to do this because that’s what they expect from romance stories, but what if the bad boy wants the relationship without all the work?

Remember you don’t need to manifest suffering to go with your success.

But you’re primed to visualize that way. It’s what makes a story interesting. Don’t visualize a story, visualize your success. Not every person who succeeds in reality had a sob story along the way. You don’t have to experience that either.

Maladaptive Daydreaming Rewriting Method (MDRM)

What I would recommend this person do is go into their daydream with parameters.

Write down the specific type of person they want and their qualities. Then have the narrative of the daydream support that vision instead of having to work for that vision through struggle. Otherwise, this person would manifest the struggle too.

But what about you? What if you’ve already been maladaptive daydreaming or visualizing with unneeded struggle?

If your daydream has turned negative, after a daydream session tell yourself that was just a fictional playground. It’s not coming true. That shuts the spiritual door. When that daydream was meant to help manifest, sit down and write affirmations to yourself that correct the problem.

If you dreamed of losing everything before you found a new job, write down something like “I’m already in my new job and I love it. I’m having so much fun and I feel so competent. I’m paid so well.”

The good news is that this method isn’t complicated and it’s something you can apply even after you’ve made a mistake in your daydream.

I hope this was all helpful. You can also download my FREE one-page worksheet to help you with the MDRM method.

Remember you have the power to manifest your goals, and you don’t have to suffer in the process. I’m wishing you only good things.

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