overactive imagination theme
A person experiences a persistent, extensive, and deep involvement in some fantasy or other. The involvement is beyond what can be considered normal behavior, and affects the person's day to day life to some extent.
11 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp2x13 | choice | Babs' overactive imagination was explicitly mentioned and caused notable problems for her. |
| ahh3x13 | major | The little girl Eva's assertions about a community of little people living under the sofa was written off by Nell as the excessive imaginings of a troubled child. |
| as1985e2x04 | major | Harry had a habit of slipping into horror and suspense movie-inspired daydreams, leaving his family concerned that he was losing touch with reality. |
| movie: A Scanner Darkly (2006) | major | The drug-addicted, layabout housemates Arctor, Barris, and Luckman dreamed up various paranoid and conspiratorial explanations for one thing after another. |
| movie: Save the Green Planet (2003) | major | The viewer is led to believe that Byeong-gu was committed to the fantastical conviction that his captive Kang was a hostile space alien, although in the end his zany belief was proved correct. |
| theamericanshortstory08 | major | The Swede's fanciful, "dime-novel" inspired characterization of the Wild West quickly got him into trouble during his stay at the Fort Romper hotel. |
| ahh2x06 | minor | It was suggested that Mrs. Logan's accusations about her neighbor were a product of her overactive imagination. |
| ahh2x11 | minor | Edith's neighbors insisted she was reading too much into Gerald's recent actions, which included the digging of a fish pond in the exact dimensions of a grave, and a purchase of acid. |
| ftt1982e2x04 | minor | Jack's mother chided him for voicing some fantastical ideas on how he'd get them out of poverty. |
| movie: Undead (2003) | minor | Marion's claim that he'd been abducted by aliens was dismissed by everyone as crazy talk. |