Did/Do You Create an Imaginary World?

[Pica Pica]

In the thread about 'not all androgynes look the part' https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,90655.new.html#new

Me and Simone both discovered that we had a common past in detailing imaginary worlds. Did/do any of your guys do that?

[Medusa]

You must define "Imaginary World" - 99% people live in Imaginary world created by television (and other media) and they even don't want to know what is really behind walls of their houses

[Pica Pica]

Too true - the difference is an imaginary world of your creation.

[ativan]

I live in mine 100% of the time, I go about with the usual daily things, but none of this is real. There are so many things in my past that I can't remember, don't really want to remember. Some days i get up and get coffee and everything looks strange, but it feels like I've been here a lot.

It takes most of the day to let that feeling go. Then the anxiety starts up, but I just let the blue pills dissolve in my mouth, and that feeling of anxiety slows to a stop, and the I can't understand what people are saying on television, and fall asleep until morning.

I think this is what worries my therapist the most, that I haven't any real sense of reality. I know I used to, but it has eroded away into what it is now. I still retain an abnormally high IQ, can carry on an in depth conversation on most anything, but I just don' care about it.
I don't really care one way or the other, but reality seems to have so many problems attached to it. I'd get tired of that anymore. it's not a reasonable expectation of how a persons life should be. Reality is as if there is a constant flow of ->-bleeped-<- that you don't just step to the side of and say to yourself 'Now that was a flow of ->-bleeped-<-!'. Time flucuates a lot ,too. An hour can go by and it will seem like minutes and then just the opposite.

It's not like I don't know what reality is, I just can't find any use for it, anymore.

[Sevan]

Oh yes. A very rich imaginary life. Always have. Started by "telling myself bedtime stories" but the stories became so real and important to me that I spent more and more time there than "here".
Still have that space. Sometimes it makes me cry. You'd think since "I'm in control" I wouldn't create situations that would make me cry but then again...sometimes I don't feel so in control of that space. It's been around for so long...it kinda controls itself...

[Silas]

I had one when I was little, I couldn't pick when I went into it, but there was only one place I could enter it -- our swingset. I'm told I would swing back and forth, completely unresponsive for a while. But when my cousins broke the swingset, the little world broke as well.

I have at least two fantasy stories, and in them there's an imaginary world for the characters to live in, but it's sort of a daydream world, there's no permanent politics/religions/species (except 1-3) because I keep imagining alternate realities for them.

I don't escape to them, though. I just watch the people of them, and write them sometimes.

[ZaidaZadkiel]

I live within the abstract world made by different systems and rules-systems which have been invented for my enjoyment.
Computer Programming, for example. I can get lost in there, losing all notice of the physical world.

[Eva Marie]

I live within the abstract world made by different systems and rules-systems which have been invented for my enjoyment.
Computer Programming, for example. I can get lost in there, losing all notice of the physical world.

Yes! I can get so "in the zone" that i have no concept of time. I totally exclude the outside world and build a 3d logic models of the problem i'm working on in my mind and then turn the model from side to side to figure out ways to solve the problem. If some outside event happens (phone rings, etc) i pop out of the zone, and it takes me about an hour to get back into it again. When i eventually pop out of the zone i'm physically exhausted. I do get a lot of stuff done while in that mode though.

I do tend to live a lot more in my head than i should... it's a happy, calm place far removed from the cares of the world. I like it there

[sunny-side]

It's really funny that you bring up that thread, Pica, as I was just reading through it earlier today since I started going back through older threads looking for info, lol.  Spooky.

I did this a lot as a kid, by myself and a lot with my little sister.  We played pretend a lot and wrote stories and built things, it was fun.

When I was a bit older, I'd get lost in books all the time, but when I couldn't have those my mind would drift to all kinds of imaginary things.  Whole worlds? Maybe not quite.  But unrealistic scenarios, sure.

Nowadays I do it with my friends.  We are in a free-form roleplay (think dungeons and dragons without the dice or strict character sheets).  I've created everything from people to races to houses.... my greatest accomplishment has been an island nation that I've created with my boyfriend.  It's got a rich culture to it, enough that others have been driven to play there too.  It's fun X3

[RebeccaFog]

I live inside my head.

Is my head an imaginary world?

[RebeccaFog]

I live in mine 100% of the time, I go about with the usual daily things, but none of this is real. There are so many things in my past that I can't remember, don't really want to remember. Some days i get up and get coffee and everything looks strange, but it feels like I've been here a lot.

It takes most of the day to let that feeling go. Then the anxiety starts up, but I just let the blue pills dissolve in my mouth, and that feeling of anxiety slows to a stop, and the I can't understand what people are saying on television, and fall asleep until morning.

I think this is what worries my therapist the most, that I haven't any real sense of reality. I know I used to, but it has eroded away into what it is now. I still retain an abnormally high IQ, can carry on an in depth conversation on most anything, but I just don' care about it.
I don't really care one way or the other, but reality seems to have so many problems attached to it. I'd get tired of that anymore. it's not a reasonable expectation of how a persons life should be. Reality is as if there is a constant flow of ->-bleeped-<- that you don't just step to the side of and say to yourself 'Now that was a flow of ->-bleeped-<-!'. Time flucuates a lot ,too. An hour can go by and it will seem like minutes and then just the opposite.

It's not like I don't know what reality is, I just can't find any use for it, anymore.

Ativan

weird. This is very close to how I feel except I don't have a thing about time. It's space/dimension that fluctuates for me in odd little ways.

It's impossible for you to have any sense of reality because there is no reality.

I am rarely in the moment. Lately, my world revolves around the fact that people are animals and won't admit it. So I imagine everything happening in another era that has humans living in villages or even earlier, but mostly villages. Everyone contributes in their way and everyone is appreciated for who they are. Except maybe me because I insist on making jokes during council meetings.  But then again, I am the Trickster. So suck it up, you other council members!

[Taka]

i've lived most of my life in fantasy worlds. but suddenly one day i had a daughter who craved attention at all times, so i can't get enough continuous spare time to spend there any more

now i seek alternative worlds and friendships online

[Hermione01]

My imaginary world helps me stay sane. Reminds me of Dumbledore's line in Harry Potter DH2 -

"Tell me one last thing," said Harry. "Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

[LordKAT]

I have time issues. It has an effect on work.  Not always a bad one.

[foosnark]

Absolutely.  I even did it professionally for a while, creating content for a fantasy MMO.

I wish I was better at writing things like dialog, plot, etc. but I'm not... so I have also tried to create worlds abstractly through music.

[ativan]

I totally exclude the outside world and build a 3d logic models of the problem i'm working on in my mind and then turn the model from side to side to figure out ways to solve the problem.When i eventually pop out of the zone i'm physically exhausted. I do get a lot of stuff done while in that mode though.

I function through most of what would seem normal, but the last decade or so it's always easier to have an asst., to keep me on the sidewalk so to speak.

[ativan]

I live inside my head.
Is my head an imaginary world?

It sounds like it hasn't any basis in reality

[ativan]

weird. This is very close to how I feel except I don't have a thing about time. It's space/dimension that fluctuates for me in odd little ways.
This is not anything like what I meant
It's impossible for you to have any sense of reality because there is no reality.
You may not have a reality and it sounds like you are nothing more than an escapist. I know what reality is, I just don't have very much use for what you or most would consider it to be
I am rarely in the moment. Lately, my world revolves around the fact that people are animals and won't admit it. So I imagine everything happening in another era that has humans living in villages or even earlier, but mostly villages. Everyone contributes in their way and everyone is appreciated for who they are. Except maybe me because I insist on making jokes during council meetings.  But then again, I am the Trickster. So suck it up, you other council members! Dungeons and Dragons...

[barbie]

I imagine that I live in a REAL world.

Barbie~~

[RebeccaFog]

I am an escapist but not an escape artist.  Nor am I a magician or I wouldn't be here.