Suffering from OIS

AKA: Overactive Imagination Syndrome

Often times life for me is very similar to the NetFlix commercials. You know the ones with all the movie characters in period clothing running around the cities and into your living room.

Thanks to growing up in the non-technological age and having a total love for reading I have developed an over active imagination. Very over active. Bordering on “is this normal?” over active.

I will admit that many of the images I see originated in movies or television. So when I say non-technological age I am not talking about before electricity. I’m simply talking about before reality tv, U Tube, IM, and My Space took over people’s minds.

I can play out scenarios, see mythical creatures, knights on horseback, creatures sitting on signs practically every where I look. They just pop into my head. I don’t even consciously invite them.
For instance I can drive under a freeway sign and see a little goblin sitting on the top. I passed 10 other signs but for some reason I stuck a little creature on the top of this one.

Or I can look out at a beautiful field and imagine a horse and rider galloping across, white puffy poet shirt billowing in the wind.

I can also play out horrific scenarios in my little head. I can imagine my car careening off the bridge and into the Mississippi, or Godzilla suddenly coming up out of the river and starting to demolish portions of downtown.

I was sitting at a café last week with a friend and as some stranger walked by us I quickly rattled off an entire history for that person, why they were downtown and what they were going to do. She laughed at me and said that she wished she had my imagination. She said she could notice them, how they looked, what they were wearing, but she could never come up with an entire story for them so quickly.

How do you explain to someone that this is what you do ALL the time without sounding like you need to be in a straight jacket?

Or perhaps many of you are sizing me up for one right now…………..