Are all writers this crazy?

I've been spending a lot of time today thinking, and I mean really thinking, about Tobyn and his motivations, examining him from all angles and trying to understand him. I think that in order to write characters who are "real people", I need to spend a lot of time in my characters' heads, thinking their thoughts, considering their pasts and futures, likes and dislikes, until I know the character like a hand knows a glove.

Unfortunately, while I'm doing that, I sometimes forget to spend time in my own head and wind up knowing my characters better than I know myself...

I've always been a dreamer, drifting through life with my head in the clouds, oblivious to things that happen around me. I can even become convinced that my internal fictions are external truths, so deeply do I consider them and come to believe them. I sometimes wonder if this is a sort of writerly schizophrenia, and if I'm really just crazy and imagining everything and everyone around me.

I think too much. I think far, far too much.