Notice when imagining replaces an activity you meant to do.
This deliberately narrow topic concerns imagined scenes occupying time intended for an available real-world activity. Imagination can be enjoyable and useful. The situations ask about a mismatch with what you meant to do at that moment. They do not rate creativity, the content of your fantasies or unusual perceptions, and do not represent the full research construct called Fantasy Proneness.
Five numeric answers are required for this separate 1–5 descriptive mean, shown to one decimal. Any NA withholds only this mean; the full guide remains available. No bands, overall result or ranking.
Available action is part of the question
Mentally exploring possibilities is not the same as failing to act. It may be the chosen activity or a useful planning stage. These prompts describe a narrower situation: an action was available, you intended to do it and an imagined scene occupied that time instead. Without those conditions, the situation may not fit you.
Notice the point of return
You might notice the drift yourself, hear a reminder or reach the end of the available time. Record whether returning was easy, whether the next action was clear and whether the surrounding activity was still available. Those details describe this occasion better than judging a whole imaginative life from a single lost interval.
Imagining a finished shelf while the tools wait
Imagine having a short period to assemble a small shelf. You spend it picturing how the finished room might look and never open the instructions. That can illustrate a mismatch if assembling was your chosen aim. If you had deliberately reserved the period for design ideas, the same imagery would have a different role.
A clear boundary with the research source
The source paper’s Fantasy Proneness domain includes broader experiences than these daily scenarios. This original bank excludes anomalous-experience screening and cannot stand in for that scale. The everyday topic is retained transparently as one angle for reflection; its mean must never be presented as a clinical or complete Fantasy Proneness score.
An optional bridge from a scene to one action
If useful, name the imagined outcome in a few words, then identify one small action that belongs to the real activity you selected. You may also choose to keep imagining when that is how you want to use the time. Observe the choice and its effect rather than setting a rule against daydreaming.
Read the descriptive mean and its omissions
Five numeric frequency responses produce a separate 1–5 mean; one NA withholds it. All-NA completion keeps the full guide accessible. There is no imagination severity band, creativity ranking or prediction. The questions and frequency rule are FermatMind originals, have not been validated as a scale and have no established equivalence to IPRS or its language versions.