This investigation helped me explore and grow confidence in expressing my feelings about maladaptive daydreaming. Truthfully, I still distanced myself by using visuals with the dreamer representing another person, to show how this daydreaming effect many people. My project started with looking into dancing as my visuals showed a group of dancers that represented different emotions that the dreamer was experiencing. Mainly anxiety about connecting with reality. These visuals were complete with a setting of ruins and overgrown nature (influenced by my trip to Spinalonga) to show the absence of life and how the dreamer is trapped in their dreams due to anxiety. The majority of my project I feel is more abstract which works as I am exploring something not grounded in reality. However, I wish I had created a few pieces based on my original small paintings to show the visuals, as for a maladaptive daydreamer, the dreams are more real and strong. Furthermore, by exploring more abst