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Originally Posted by Socks
I'm going to piggyback on my own post here. I'm having trouble daydreaming, or using my imagination. This I'm just noticing today. I'm anxious, I calm myself down and try to think of a happy place, but suddenly there's a block and I can't think of anything but what's happening presently. I had a vivid imagination and no problem kinda fading off and now I can't. I'm a little freaked right now. Anyone else experience this?
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Yes, a TBI can really impede one's inner life.
I was a professional fiction writer. Before my MVA, my mind was always swimming with ideas, conversations between my characters, etc... For a long time after the accident, my mind was just blank. The internal monologue had stopped. I was in a scarey silence. Left alone, I'd just sit, unaware of the passage of the hours. My sleep was black and dreamless.
As time passed, I began to regain some capacity for thought and imagination. Is it like before? No. I have only have pre-rem dreams and I know I'll never again write creatively. But, at least, I have thoughts.