Is it normal to prefer my dreams and day-dreams to reality?

I prefer my daydreams to reality too. I think dreamers are the people who never get bored with life... At least that's how it is with me.

I'm exactly the same! Whenever I'm bored or sad, like a coping mechanism I dip back into my dreamworld. Sometimes I'll sit there for an hour having woken up, but often it'll be 'scenes' or snippets throughout the day when I can. It's when you have to plunge back into reality that it hits you like a brick: it's not true.
But then I go back ... fiction is my addiction.

I do this pretty much all day. I hop around from different "plots", though. One day I'm this person living this life and I'm in love with this person, and after a while I get bored so I move on to something different. My life isn't terrible by any means, but I just feel so much happier when I'm picturing myself as another person, living another life. Sometimes I even forget that my reality is my reality, if that makes sense. I love my parents, my family and my close friends, but I can't help but wish I could physically be in these realities that I have created for myself.

My daydreams are great. I have some control over them. But my dreams are weird. I dont really need that kind of chaos.

This is common with people who never seize the day. I know that's a cliche ans cringetastic phrase, but generally when you don't or are incapable of doing what you want to, or feeling how you want to, your mind compensates and fills those gaps by day dreaming.

I wholeheartedly agree with the second life sentence. Sometimes my own dreams are so surreal and fantastic that I would be content never wake up from dreaming. Alas, since that isn't possible, the only option left is to try and make your real life as exciting. When I've had seasons of pure happiness I don't remember my dreams ever being better

Same. Reality sucks hardcore compared to your dreams. Maybe this is just Purgatory and we're neither living or dead. Wouldn't that be interesting?

It would explain why life tends to be so boringly straight-lined and average (as well as how cruel and messed up it can be). That or this is the Matrix which would make everything irrevalent and pointless. Maybe we're just here until we can be born into the worlds we really want.

I don't feel as empty as I used to, which is probably a bad thing as I'm usually feeling down instead, bit then I still get happy too, just not enough to really even it out, I totally get what you mean about waking up to be disappointed a dream wasn't real and you're back to the same shit, I do spend a ton of time daydreaming though, making up scenarios in my head, then come crashing down when I realise they'll never happen.

Once u said u was day dreaming after u woke up- its absolutely normal.. But if you do think about day dreaming for an hour and everyday? U just wasting your time for something that couldnt be happen.. U might do your daily responsibility earlier instead..