• If you become one with your wheel when you drive. ("Become one with your wheel." - Alex. "I'm becoming one with my wheel." - Daniel. "It Takes A Voyage To Learn")

Contributed by Peggy
 
• When you're seriously depressed about the show being cancelled, just as you would be if you were losing even one good friend, let alone many.

Contributed by Chris S.
(Personally, I think that is a sign of not enough Hope Island episodes being aired.)
 
• If you dye your hair red so that every time you hear "A redhead that won't leave my mind" you think Daniel is thinking about you.

Contributed by Blue Rose
 
• When you start eating Pez, saying "You bet your Borscht", and are looking for Captain Supremo comics!

Contributed by Kay S.
 
• When you answer your brother's question of "What does 'HI' mean?" with "Hope Island" when he meant the "HI" in "HIV".

Contributed by Simone (For further explanation, she worked at an AIDS advice centre.)


• When you dream of Alex's and Daniel's wedding and suddenly realize you will never get to see it.
  Contributed by Doris.
  
  
• When you begin developing your own literary series about a minister, a cynic and the tiny coastal town they live in... And deny it has anything to do with H.I. (Pure coincidence, right? :))
  Contributed by Beauty of Gray AKA Cloud
  
  
• When every story you write has a guy named Daniel in it ... (Though in my case, this is half due to my thing for Savage Garden's Daniel Jones.)
  Contributed by Beauty of Gray AKA Cloud
  
  
• When you develop an obsessive attachment to a particular piece of knitted headgear.
  Contributed by Beauty of Gray AKA Cloud

 

 

What are the signs that you have watched too much Hope Island? Email them to me (Peggy) at Submissions