Thanks for sharing your story. I agree that daydreaming can be a great coping tool. And I absolutely do think that there’s a link between daydreaming and creativity — after all, you can’t daydream if you don’t have an imagination!

Daydreaming is maybe a kind of guided visualisation wherein we can be as free and a safe as we need to be, where we can be allowed friends and go on explorations and adventures, where someone does love us and want to be around us and where we can talk to an internal imaginary friend that helps us think things through and makes us feel as if we are OK. I don’t know how I would’ve survived without this. I still use guided visualisation as a form of self-soothing and preparation for new circumstances or relationships or activities, rehearsing the pro’s and con’s and possible responses and outcomes. It helps me feel prepared and confident that I have done all I can. However, I also have imaginary conversations with people I am in an actual relationship with and sometimes cannot understand why the real relationship has not “moved on” or changed in the way I thought it had, only to remind myself it was all in my head and the other person is oblivious to all the conversations I thought had happened!!

I am quite a creative person in both writing and painting and crafts and wonder whether the two are related?