Is your inner movie playing in your head also more interesting than the TV movie?

I save some videos on YouTube and watch them later when I have energy. The amount of information I can take is very much limited although I don't have any (recognised) learning disability. It was always my problem st school- too much, too fast. I was too slow for all this. Ended up sitting with books for hours and struggling and still getting low notes in many subjects.  I was told I just have to try harder and everything will be fine.

I always need time to "digest" tge information I received.  Then to relax. Then I can only receive another one.

TV:

I tend to watch TV programmes / movies by digital recording them (rather than watching the live broadcast). 

That way, I can choose to watch things when I have sufficient energy (or in the appropriate level of emotion) to follow the particular content. 

It also means I can stop playback, do something else, and return to it hours / days / weeks / months later when I feel like it.

Another choice recording / playback, which I like, is I can repeat watch sections of interest or make use of subtitles with some content.  (For some programmes; I prefer to mute the sound and follow the content via use of subtitles).

Alien0n3arth said:

I have thoughts like movies in my head. It's a movie playing while reading a book - I see it in my head.

As long as this vivid feature / really immersive process does not distress you at all - that sounds fine.

However, if you were ever to find the imagery in your head too annoying, overly frightening or inappropriately intrusive (happens when you don't want or expect it to etc.) - then it might be worth mentioning your experience of the feature with a GP.  

Our minds can be fascinating and inventive.

As long as that creativity and experience enhancing capability is enjoyable - that is a positive.

If the mind / emotional experience / cognition state were to stray into unwelcome territory we find more bizarre than suits / serves / supports us - that is where a clinician's guidance may be appropriate.

And yes, I speak from personal experience ...my mind too - can readily generate an environment and storyline way more interesting and immersive than most TV programming on offer.

Only before bedtime... I can say I have them constantly all the time. I go shopping with a list, but I take from shelves not what I have on my list, but what I always buy. I do it automatically,  because there is a neverending movie playing in my head, it's idk maladaptive daydreaming and if someone or something interrupts my movie, I get upset and I play it from the beginning over again. Its usually related to my interest. Others find me pretty often sitting still like a statue and staring in a wall or rocking and staring in a wall, but what is happening in my head is deep. Then of course others think that I'm sad or depressed. Other things that make my head busy are past dialogues that I would like to rewrite or possible future dialogues or just my fantasies.  And they are all so intense that they play like movies in my head. 

When I read a book, I don't read fiction very often, then I feel depressed after the story is over because I want more and I want to be in that movie again and the story to go on.

Sometimes I have something similar, I get very detailed 3d videos that play in my head. No idea why and I can control it to some degree….very strange but I do enjoy it when it happens. Tends to be when I have complete silence, nighttime and by myself

I only do what you describe when going to sleep, although my dreams are often like very strange films, I wish I could show them to others somehow.

I rarely watch films now, I've got so used to watching series and reading a series of books that I find the story lines of films incomplete somehow. I agree about there being little on TV worth watching, it's all sport and repeats, I think there's only about 2 or 3 things worth watching on TV this week.

Put it this way in my opinion there is hardly anything decent on tv whether they are movies or just “normal shows”. For me it’s my eupd and lack of confidence and self worth. I’m not your typical gen z girl. Sorry if this isn’t really related