(My) Psychology on Fantasy
Why do we fantasize? why do we dream, write, make art, dance, express ourselves? why do we assign fantasies to a different world? A world we can escape to? And why do we go there, for love? Hope?
The only reason we seem to enter this different reality is because we can find there what we lack in this one. That other world where we can have free range, where anything that is socially inacceptable in this world can come to life, where no-one judges, where one can be as outrageous as one likes, we often bring into this word through forms of self-expression.
Brought into this life, this reality, all those things that were once un-judged get thrown to the lions.. kijken wattie doet! First reactions are likely to be fear and resistance. It may be be attacked, banned, ridiculed even. It is only when other brave souls recognise, accept and speak out for it that the rest of the world will start showing some acceptance, to admit that maybe, they share these interests, and that really, it is inspiring to them.
It seems we have a division in society. Those that dare to dream (silently, or out loud) and those that don't, and discard dreams as being irrational, impossible, unattainable and a waste of time (hard work gets you places, day dreaming does not). The first group will be the creators: artists, dancers, musicians, fashion designers, (athletes?.) The second group would be those that push off, resist or maybe, secretly admire.
When the dreams come out, in art, music or whatnot.. they can be vehemently criticised. Not everyone's dreams are the same, and not everyone is ready for the changes others' dreams can bring on. It is a challenge, a dare to the world. Those that admire the dreams of another might still criticise them out of spite or jealousy at having taken the liberty to dream.
Dreaming is in a sense making the unconscious conscious. And not just to oneself but also to the rest of the world, giving them the opportunity to dream along, if they dare. If no brave soul stands up for another's dream, it is lost. Either to the back of peoples minds, waiting for an appropriate time to come out or, back into the world where it came from...
And maybe it is good that not all dreams are instantly accepted. It makes them more powerful, and it makes them evolve. And what if all the dreams made it into the world? What if everything was attainable? What would there be left for us to dream for, to imagine, to hope?
and where would I go when I am fed up with this world??
Quote: "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one." -Albert Einstein
Music: Moonlight Sonata, Bach
posted by Nooy at Sunday, April 02, 2006
3 Comments:
Beautyfull how it works...........It seems you never can forget were your roots were :-)
groetjes, Boy
(ging over: kijken wattie doet...)
Anneke is also looking, and is trying to slide in the world of internet.......
Isn't fantasy just another method we use to learn things we wouldn't have learned otherwise? Isn't it a way to enjoy feelings we shouldn't have known had it not been for the world we make up every now and then?
Life itself is one big learning process, that's something that everyone's aware of. We don't always realise that there's just so many ways in wich we learn. Every aspect of life, every color, every sound and every word we read, learns us something about life.
It's in our nature to express what's inside of us. All of us do this, in one way or another. There's so many ways by wich you can express a dream: it can inspire you to draw or write, it can make you act different in real life, whatever it is, it causes us to pass feelings on to others.
We are walking televisions: fantasy is our electricity, the station we're on is our choice of venting the energy.
Btw, Not trying to be wise or anything, I just like your posts, they make me think about life alot =]
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