I often have this ritual where I spend an hour or two a day just pacing around in my room listening to music while I let my mind wander and just get lost in my wildest fantasies. I've never been sure whether this is a compulsion or just some sort of personality quirk. Sometimes I do it just for fun, and I think it can help me come up with creative ideas as an aspiring artist, but I think I also use it as a means of escapism, so I can imagine something more pleasant than the miserable reality OCD thoughts create for me. Deliberately spending this much time in my head, oblivious to the world around me, probably isn't useful in learning to practice mindfulness and maybe is even a form of avoidance. Can anyone else relate to this odd habit of pacing/rocking/skipping to music for long periods to trigger your imagination? I don't do this every day, just whenever I get the whim, which is often multiple times a week. I've done this ever since I was a kid, even before my OCD really manifest itself that strongly to me. I'm not sure if anyone else ever does this.