Is this simply creativity, or is there something wrong with me? Is anybody else like me?

I read all of that and I am convinced that you are indeed extra creative and I do also believe that high creativity does manifest in deeper thinking as well. And yes, your Mom is right..... you are 'gifted' with this high creativity, since this is one thing we can not develop!!

Beware though! Creativity without discipline is a colossal waste. May sound like oxymoron, but believe me, creativity needs to be bound in order to create successfully, or else it becomes no different than the doodles on a large canvass by the kid who hasn't learned ABCD!!

Please take my advice and get cracking on this indisciplined ways of your mind...... it has no business imagining all that lot when totally irrelevant and out of context!! I have first hand experience of how harmful indiscipline can be.... it can lead to nothing but tons of regret!!

What you have is a gift, plain and simple. There is no such thing as being over-creative or over-imaginative. Einstein himself said "Imagination is more important than knowledge." There are plenty of people alive who have the mathematical capability Einstein had, but very few who have as powerful an imagination and overall ability to think deeply. From the sounds of it, you might be on that level.

Imagination and deep thought go hand-in-hand. Deep thought is the ability to look at a problem from many angles. This is done using imagination, you are able to imagine possibilities, concepts, causes, effects, etc. that other people cannot.

If someone had a perfect imagination, they'd understand everything there is to know about Reality. That would be a "gift" for sure. What you have is less extreme but is still a gift.

From your description, your gift comes with a side effect: distraction. My own opinion is, so what! This is a small price to pay compared to the greatness of your gift!

In fact, if I were you, I wouldn't even take the pills for ADD. Society calls it a disorder but it's not. Society wants you to behave a certain way that is useful for society: "shut up, keep your head to the ground and just keep digging!" The pills are designed to make you conform to that motto and be a machine like the the non-gifted citizens. I say, rebel! You have no disorder, you have a gift, so let your mind flow the way your masterpiece arrangement of DNA designed it to!

I hope I've helped you in your path to finding yourself ;)

I'm terribly sorry for all these dreadful answers people have given you. ''read the bible'' give me a break.. anyway, I have never known or never experienced what you are talking about.. in everyday like that is. Though I have tried LSD, but have never hallucinated whilst on it. It is indeed a ''thinking'' drug that distorts reality. I don't know if comparing yourself to someone who is on acid all the time is a good way of putting it, first of all, there are physical changed in an acid head, and you can usually tell when someone is high on LSD. LSD can also be a very scary experience, and unless you are well trained in how to deal with the ''trip'' there is a high risk of a bad trip and therefor being mentally unstable. --I'm rambling a tad, sorry. Have you ever felt scared from these ''delusions''? Either way, I would recommend having a chat with some mental health workers, see if they can do anything to help you out and make you better understand what you're experiencing. I suffer from severe anxiety and panic disorder, (which can be a very scary ordeal if you haven't known anyone going through it) and I got some help with the ''youth mental health centre'' where I live. You would have something similar where you live and I recommend you checking it out. Even though I'm sure what I go through is a lot more common that what you go through, you never know. I thought I was suffering some sort of psychosis but they helped me understand my illness better so I could deal with it. Not called what you have an ''illness''. but you get the gist. If you arn't scared, embrace it! Use your creativity! I love being different, and even to some degree, love being -in the states eyes- ''mentally ill''. Because I'm different and wiser than most people, and you are too.

Well I think that everyone thinks they're different when they're a little kid.

I think, personally, that this could be a gift or a curse, depending on what you do with it. It seems like you do have a very strong imaginaiton and, honestly, I envy you a little.

This might be called a "mental disorder" by some people, but most people see mental disorders as bad. I don't see how this is a bad thing if all it causes you is distraction. As long as the dancing pencils don't tell you to kill anybody, I think you're probably fine.

But, it is important to be able to tell the real world from your daydreams.

I'm going to shift this answer towards me for a moment, some of these things do happen to me, but not a strongly. I like to daydream and have strange thoughts such as:

What if someone bled fire? Or what if someone was born with a chemical in their blood that ignited when exposed to air? Of course there's oxygen in the bloodstream... What would their life be like?

And I'll analyze that for a while.

Everyone zones out once in a while, but it sound kind of like instead of your daydreams... "taping over" real life, yours blend with what you're seeing. If you want to get your brain examined you might feel better about it, but that's your choice.

As far as seeing things, sometimes I'll have a song stuck in my head so bad I'll swear I can actually hear it with my ears, like someoine is playing that song in the next room.

Although, maybe you should work on trying to tell you daydreams apart from real life. I often hear stories and will picture them so vividly that later I'll think they've happened to me. Or I'll think that something in a dream really happened. I try not to do this though, because it gets confusing.

overall, this is what you make it. If you spend all this time analyzing yourself, you could try thinking about where you want to go with this. It sounds like you have the potential to do a lot of good.

All I can tell you is don't let it consume you. it can be painful in way to think and feel all those things, to sometimes get lost in the dream and not be able to seperate it from the reality. it helps if you invent a switch. something that can be used to turn your thoughts on or off, that way you can seperate your "normal", conciounce mind from the deeper searching and thinking part of yourself. in that way you really can be normal for a while and everything around you won't feel so powerful and intense and hurtful and you can stop yourself from thinking so much. the only danger in that is the possobility that you can press the switch to hard, so that in a way you lose the deeper part of your self and become almost like a shell of what you once were, that can be even more painful than the initial problem and you feel less than yourself because of it. of course there are drugs that can do that now, but they will destroy you in a way, make you something you weren't meant to be. it would be better to be consumed and lost than to take that option. if you don't already have an outlet for yourself, then find one. that really helps for example righting, music, painting, anything. so long as it involves using your mind and releasing some of the things trapped there otherwise it can turn into a different sort of release, like you'd do anything to find a way to express it (hurting yourself, a canceling out of the pain and things you're feeling etc). running can help to, although not in the same way. don't let the frustration get to you, it will be painful being you and your someone who is destined to never be happy or to be content with just being, in existing and letting life flow by as it wills. it means that life has dealt you a cruler card than it has other people and because of it you will live more painfully and completely that most people can only dream of. if it is a gift then it is also a curse, so don't wast it. if you do you will regret it to the farthest corner of your being.

Wow...it's like looking into a mirror! You don't even want to hear my story! You would think I was absolutely nuts!

Alright...so, I am almost exactly like you. I daydream 24/7..it interferes with my life. No, you are not a freak. I have been told it is a "gift" as well. I have also researched this extensively. I think I have maladaptive daydreaming. Anyways, the only real advice I can give you is maybe try and don't let it interfere with your life (if you don't like doing these things). If you are having trouble stopping...I find it helpful to just scream "STOP!" in my head. That really works for me...cuts off my thought process. Stay away from things you know will "feed" it. Also, don't try drugs (just puttin' that out there). Not healthy.

You are definitely not the only one though! I wish so many times for someone I can relate to. Again though, just try and control it. I think you have a very vivid imagination, so you are able to change (in your mind) what someone or something is doing. Don't worry about it...really. You'd be surprised how many people do it. I waste so many hours everyday by sitting up in my room daydreaming. Just remember that it is actually wasting time...so try to limit it. I should probably take my own advice though.

I bet someone before you in your family experienced this as well. I was told it skipped a generation or something like that. That's what I hear.

There are a lot of famous people out there that have mind's like yours and mine as well. =) Alot of scientists, actors, and inventors, etc...like Einstein for instance...

Don't worry...you're not a freak. You're just gifted. =)

No, you are not a freak. I am more on your mums side. Realize that the greatest inventions are made from people who think deep about something and who can imagine how the things turn out in their mind. So whoever tells you you are crazy, even you yourself, it is not true in my view, but still I understand that it can be scary for yourself. A lot of people who are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorders are actually experiencing what you do, but I think it is wrong to put a label of a disorder to something which is actually in some areas indeed a great Gift. So search for which area this gift can be most useful for. I do the same in my life. I am hyper-sensitive. This means I can feel almost physically the thoughts as well as the emotional states of people I meet or even from a distance. I use it actually when I work with people who come to me for mental and emotional issues as I am a Professional working in the area of mental health, using many different approaches to assist my clients. I have a deep understanding through my sensitivity where people come from in my sessions, but in day to day life, the sensitivity sometimes I experience as a disadvantage.

You are NOT alone, though there are few who would admit it. Who's to say those of us who are different in this respect are not the normal ones and all others are not? Imagination and creativity go hand in hand. More so for some than others. You do indeed have a gift and a brilliant one at that. You're problem comes not from having this gift but in accepting it and embracing it and getting on with your life as it unfolds.You won't lack for friends as people will be drawn to you and your uniqueness. You won't lack for something to do as you can be as creative in your life as you want to be. You'll not be bored as you can entertain yourself. I just ask that you please find a central interest and develop it. There are schools and scientific research facilities that would love to study you and your thought processing and abilities. Check into Noetic Science. It is a offspring of quantum Physics that studies the power and ability of thought. I hope this helps just to know that you are not alone. I'm older and these things were not available to me and was something I had to deal with on my own at a time when it wasn't as readily accepted. The purpose of this gift is to give the world what it's ready for. A chance to understand the power of the mind.

Dear Joy, Van Gough (spelling?) might have been a lot like you and there was a song written about him you might want to look up.(Starry Starry Night). It asks the same question you are asking. He was in a constant state of awe about the beauty around him and made paintings very quickly so he had no trouble finishing them. You might try the same thing and make a profit out of sharing your unique view of things with others. The only problem is that Van Gough was not very happy. Try to live up to your name and just accept your uniqueness. Not to worry! Just create. (It helps to hang out with other people who actually create stuff too.) The hardest part it to get started! The teens are a time to find yourself but don't work too hard at it. By itself the grass will grow,

Before I got to the part where you say you have ADHD, it sounded to me like you have it.

The right medication for ADHD can make an infinite difference in your experience of life. It can help you focus all that creativity toward some great goals. It seems like right now your creativity is ruling you. Just think how great life would be if you were ruling you creativity.

Regarding your concern about drug abuse, do you think it is wrong for a person who has schizophrenia to take meds that give him and his family a productive happy life? Do you think a person with diabetes should not take insulin and just die? Do you think a person who has a severe infection should not take antibiotics?

These are no different than you finding the right meds to help you be all you can be for yourself and the world around you. People with ADHD are far more likely to abuse drugs because they are not on the correct meds, than abuse them while they are on the correct meds.