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Connecting With Your Fantasy World

Written by Evan Bailyn on 09/02 at 08:38 PM

In a society where the vast majority of people act adultlike, it helps to have a fantasy world - a place that nobody can ever see or influence no matter what is happening in your physical environment.  Keeping such a place inside you, hidden away from everything else, can greatly counterbalance all the external events that are out of your control. However, even those who regularly use their imaginations to escape often do so in a passive way, minimizing the benefit of their mental hideaway.

Maintaining an active relationship with your fantasy realm requires affirmative upkeep.  It means retreating to that mental hideaway often and engaging it willfully and boldly.  If you can accept the fact that you – an individual above the age of six – possess a private realm where anything can happen, then your escapes will be far more fruitful.  And if you do it often, always searching for new subject matter to play with, you will enter your own world more easily.

It is also important to keep your cognitive channels open and clear of pollution. There will always be many outside events in your life, and your ability to filter these outside events has great consequences. If you allow doubts, stress and other negativity into your life, they can stop up your lines of communication with your internal world. 

A fantasy world, when facilitated properly, is a tool with which to enjoy our lives. It makes up a large part of the sense of freedom we feel.  When we can fully utilize our gift of mental creation, we can revel in the ideas we love most, and ultimately, use those ideas to color our external world as well.

42 Comments

Posted by eat a banana sandwich today! on 09/05 at 07:33 AM

I am always in a fantasy world..or so i assume. Perhaps you and various other anonymous writers on the internet really are dinosaurs.

Posted by peanut butter and honey is also good on 09/05 at 07:35 AM

with giant keyboards and funny hats

Posted by Roxas on 09/27 at 09:13 PM

yay! Im not the only one with an inner world TvT. Ill describe it, ahem! ahem!: My f-world is an artificial planet (like the Death Star in star wars). Inside it, we (me and my peolple) the nobodies (a breed of beings that can control magic, matter and energy and use the 100% of their brains), live peacefully without any kind of laws, rules or duties since we dont need it. The energy source is a micro-sun whose color changes randomly each day (its mostly pale blue) and it´s made entirely of antimatter. There are huge grass fields, oceans, mountains, massive forests, etc. The capital of this place is a city called… well I still need a name; the city is composed by a combination of high-tech and magic; high-tech is formed by all the A.I. that takes care of all the maintenance tasks as well as the control the entire planet; magic is the fuel of all those machines stored in crystal units (like materia in FFVII) as well as all the abilities people have. There are mages, healers, time/space mages, magitecnology engineers, common engineers, warriors, dancers, singers, etc. People dedicate mostly to research and improve all kinds of sciences; offensive magic, healing magic, physics, machinery, literature, music, history, swordplay, etc.  If you´ve ever played a Final Fantasy game, then you know what I mean. In this world, there are also floating/underground/submerged/etc cities scaterred everywhere. This place is managed by a group composed of the first 13 nobodies that ever existed. These 13 were once humans, but they somehow found a way to “upgrade” themselves. Each one of this guys has a number, which is the order in wich they “nobodized” as well as their rank, being number XIII the strongest and last of these first nobodies. I am number XIII, king of this place (obviously XD). AHEM!!! Sorry. I got carried away… like I always do XD.

I´d like to read about ALL of everyone’s worlds. It’d be nice to share our fantasies.

Posted by Roxas on 09/27 at 09:14 PM

PD: Please dont tell me Im crazy, I know that already XDD

Posted by Eleanor Tyris on 12/14 at 03:55 PM

hey Roxas your world sounds cool! mine’s a bit strange and is called Elsewhere. its huge and always changing, sometimes its just an island with mountains and foresta and wooden cities and hideaways where starnge creatures and people live in harmnony. magic also egsists in all forms and everyone is welcome. other times it looks like how i want this world to be like with no war but adventure and everyone stays a child forever, theres no fear (unless imaginary) and you can do anything you want. sometimes Elsewhere changes into a whole universe with hundreds of worlds and magic. i can have huge intergalactic adventures or battle dragons or tease fairys, the indians light fires and invite me to join them. the characters from my stories (im a young writer) join me and have their own adventures and i write them down. i think Elsewhere can be anything you want it to be. its safe, its bright, its big or small, whatever you want!!!

Posted by Roxas on 12/17 at 02:54 PM

*sniff*sniff* Ah… I am not alone TvT. I´ve considered writing the story of my world, I´ve thought many names ;Elysia, Endia, Grandia, Rhapsodia, Luminaria and other “ia’s”; created or stolen from videogames and songs ¬¬U, but it´s MY wolrd so I can call it however I want. Actually, yesterday I was planning to write the 1st chapter (I already have a prologue), but my journal-logbook-whatever-thing had only a single page left and it was meant for yesterday’s entry, so I had to postpone it due to paper lack T_T. If you ever write your story, I’d be happy to read it.

Oh, and Evan, have you ever considered adding a forum to this site? It would be SO cool! XD

Posted by Evan Bailyn on 12/17 at 03:39 PM

Roxas, I have thought of it.  It’s a good idea.  Maybe you’ll see one soon… smile

Posted by Eleanor Tyris on 12/19 at 05:54 PM

yeah it would be good to have a forum on here, sure you can read my story when i finish it roxas though it might take a while . . . he he he im a slow typer!
anyway you should write down some stories and you dont even have to give your world a name, i couldnt think of one, you just got to think about it. my friends always said i went Elsewhere to ‘fairyworld’ but i didnt like that name so i took the first. you could ask your friends for ideas maybe? hey i cant wait for the forum Evan it’ll be great!

Posted by christopher F. Yanilla on 12/23 at 12:01 AM

Welcome to the world of fantasy , if i could recall vividly albert einstein asserted that imagination is more important than knowledge.. thus fantasy as part of our imaginative skills can bring us all in more creative physical existence.

Posted by Roxas on 12/23 at 03:17 PM

I hope I can find some use for it… It’s kinda… trapped…

Posted by Leo on 01/26 at 10:45 AM

I discovered this website somehow at college a few days ago, having aboslutely no work to do, searching for random stuff that came into my head. And I must say, some of these articles are very enjoyable to read.

It seems in modern times that all creativity and imagination in the world has become incredibly stagnant, if not already dead. Although saddening, it just gives me and others like me more reason to assert ourselves and our ideas. I have made countless worlds and stories and characters, each of which I have kept safe and snug in my brain, since before I can remember (which really isn’t saying much, considering my dreadful memory, harharhar).

I believe people are happiest when they’re lost in their own imaginations. That’s where I find the most joy, anyway. A place where you aren’t limited by the laws you are tethered to from birth by reality. Society dictacts too much of us and slowly kills the child within as all. Which is such a shame, because there is nothing crueller, braver, more creative--there is simply nothing happier--than a child.

Harhar. I’ve dragged on a bit more than I intended, so I’ll be quiet now. =]

Posted by Lykaios on 03/29 at 04:33 PM

I don’t know if any of you have heard of it but in the UK - Suffolk, there is a school called Summerhill. It beleives strongly that children have the right to make all the decisions in their lives and tht includes what they want to learn and when. This boarding school gives children childhoods with freedom and independance, they can play all day and only go to the lessons they want to.
All of the children that leave this school feel happy and in control of their lives.

I think if people nowadays had good happy childhoods, with no stress form parents or school then maybe there wouldn’t be so many children and teenagers with so many problems. Children are growing up to quickly nowadays because all the governments want is numbers on their lists, childrens early life should be filled with imagination and play, not maths and science or be forced into classrooms.

I think this site is very inspiring. Childhood is very important but why is it ruled by adults who have forgotten what childhood is?

Posted by Kat on 04/22 at 06:35 AM

i agree.
ive been writing a story of a fantasy world , i am quite a young writer, called Liethearia and ive done 4 chapters but i havent had any time to write any more because of school. it get really annoying because i keep getting assignments and have absolutely no time to work on my story even in the holidays! :(

Posted by Niffer on 05/21 at 09:51 AM

in my fantasy world, i am peter pan. i fly around with wendy, michael, and john. we fly all around neverland. in my neverland the sun is always shining. it is summer, winter, spring, and fall all at the same time, on different parts of the island. but it is always warm, even when it snows. and the snow is never wet, just lovely and soft. my favorite game to play is cloud tag. michael and i fly through the clouds and wendy tries to catch us. john does not like to play in the clouds much. he prefers to jump in the lagoon.

Posted by tee on 08/26 at 03:28 PM

I understand totally… I am writing a story, I have been writing it for years, and I feel like I truly know the characters, I hear their voices, I see them as if they were real… I love them as friends and I feel they will be with me forever, I’m never alone as long as I keep them inside me

Posted by Roxas on 08/27 at 07:07 PM

Lykaios, I totally support your vision. When I was young I suffered a lot due to school. Not because of the numbers, but because of bullies. You see, I am a person filled with youthful emotions. I love to imagine and daydream and play and all. Recently, children have been growing up too quickly, which caused all my classmates to think I’m weird just because I wasn’t all spoiled as they were.

Right now, I think I would’ve achieved something big if it hadn’t been for those institutions that do not care about children. I think I can still achieve something big, since now I am trying to repair the damage that was inflicted upon me, but I really think that if there were places where children were really taken care of, then this world would be a better place…

Posted by Leo on 09/12 at 04:10 AM

It’s awful living in a world where the bright and creative are labeled as unconventional. Looking back, I can really see that that may have had something to do with my own trouble at school. My friends and I were always shunned for some reason--people would hate us and mock/bully/etc us without even knowing our bloody names.

I’m not deterred, though, since I’m happy with my life. I don’t care what people say anyway--if it’s childish or weird. I’m happy, and more often than not, the people who say these things aren’t.

Posted by Tinker Bell on 09/15 at 05:57 PM

My fantasy world is called Also This. It seems kind of like a dumb name and all, but to me it seems to give me more room to breath, and use my imagination. I’m thinking about writing all about it in a book someday! Thanks for this site! I am a PPSer!!!!!!!

Posted by Tinker Bell on 09/17 at 03:10 PM

Hi again! Just wanted to let you know, Evan, that you have the best site ever! Thanks so much!

Posted by Tinker Bell on 09/18 at 08:11 AM

Also This is a beautiful world! If you head west than you can reach the Wood Between the Worlds, and, eventually,Never-Neverland and beyond! To the east is a place called Otherworld, which holds the Silver Bough. The Silver Bough is basically a portal to and from the Analogue World (earth)that the fairy Queen Tatiana owns. Mortals are able to go to and from Otherworld through this. Also This holds everything sacred to a child’s heart. Here is a list:
Princesses
Princes
Kings
Queens
Fairies
Elves
Pirates
Mermaids
Magic
Flying Carpets
Animals
Forests
Witches (Aslan will protect you!)
Aslan!!!
etc. etc. etc.
I could go on forever, I think, but you would probably skip to the next blog!
THANKS EVAN! You’re my favorite writer, I think!

Posted by Tiger Lily on 09/28 at 06:05 PM

My fantasy world is called, “Never Never Land”.  When you go there, you become a child again.  It is a tropical island full of fairies & all manner of elves and Indians.  There are also gorgeous tree houses where you can find children from around the world.  Sometimes me and the lost boys will plan attacks on the Pirates who live on boats in the gulf and sometimes in the rivers. 

There is so much adventure and fun to be had.  Yes.  Peter Pan is also an active member of this fantasy land.  You are more than welcome to visit there in your mind, using your imagination. 

Just fly to the second star in the sky & strait on till morning.  Hope to see you there..

Posted by Tiger Lily on 09/28 at 06:09 PM

Tinkerbell, “Also This” sounds fantastic!  I am gonna go play in it right now.... grin Thank you so much for sharing it…

Evan, I can’t wait for a Forum!

Posted by Tinker Bell on 10/08 at 08:11 AM

Hi, Tiger Lily! Wow! I love the tree houses! I always wanted to have a tree house, but I never did get one. Do you ever get totally lost in yourself? I do. Unfortunately, it usually happens to me when I’m supposed to be studying....
Anyway, I am so glad that you blogged! I sometimes feel like no one notices me - not even on a blog! It’s a pretty sad situation and I can’t do anything about it. Nice to meet you, Tiger Lily! I am 14 years old.

Posted by Thenidiel on 10/30 at 01:26 PM

Oh!my wonderland..hehe its great to have people who think that waysmile I’m obsessed with Elves ever since i read a story about them when i was a little girl.I’m not only impressed by how they look but they are strong and everything about them symbolizes beauty and purity.I also believe that they once existed but humans,as they always do to other living things,killed them.Every little magical thing existed in that world we live in, to me by the way!I wish they still did..There are so many things that i wanna talk about haha^__^I cant name my fantasy world but its really messy i sometimes see the things I draw to my school books :D.I have been thinking about writing about it but i cant find the right words to describe it..Firstly
I HATE the ones who think dreaming or having your own world is stupid ..Every teenagers I know want to grow up and I cant share my thoughts with them,only thing they do is to laugh.I cant even find a friend who loves fantastic stuff.Anyways this site is just so beautifulsmileAdd me if you want to it would be nice to talk :
I’m 15 years old by the way..

Posted by Tinker Bell on 11/13 at 10:41 AM

Hi Thenidiel!! I am 14, and I love elves too!! I can’t find anyone who feels the same as I do either. Everyone is too into flirting or iPods or something else. Who takes the time to dream up a world nowadays? You sound nice! I also love Unicorns and FLYING unicorns!! And practically every other so called “make believe” creature.

luv ya all!
Hugs and Butterflys,
Tinker Bell

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