 The overall symptom is extremely vivid fantasies with "story-like features", such as the daydream's characters, plots and settings.Characters can be real people the maladaptive daydreamer knows, or made up ones, and the same goes with settings and plots.Media sources, such as movies, video games and music, are probably major influences in a maladaptive daydreamer's life, and this is why these fantasies are often shaped like a novel or film.