When it comes to fantasies, many think that we are facing a subject far removed from everyday reality, it is assumed that fantasy is associated only with extraordinary or unusual facts, however, if there is one thing we do in our day to day it is fantasies.
We can say that, basically, we live immersed all the time in a set of fantasies, much of what we do or stop doing is based solely on imaginary and not real reasons, in the strict sense of the word. we live this way and not another, many will surely respond with arguments that have much more to do with cultural fantasy than with vital reality.
“The best friend and worst enemy of the soul is fantasy. ” – Arturo Graf-
There are creative fantasies. They are the ones who separate themselves from the common and introduce the extraordinary, however, there are also few creative fantasies, they are the ones we hear and say as if they were true, they are the ones that are most rooted in our culture, and that is why they are presented to themselves as true, even though they are not.
We do not need or need to have an objective perception of ourselves and the world around us. Much of what makes up our ideas is influenced by the fantasies with which we were raised and those we built ourselves. The good thing is that the fantastic is also plastic: it can be molded, transformed, changed, not subject to the relentless laws of any reality.
The good thing is that the fantastic is also plastic: it can be molded, transformed, changed, not subject to the relentless laws of any reality.
Some fantasies help us nurture the desire to live and evolve, for example, when we realize that we deserve a lot and that something good will always come into our lives, this translates into optimism, perseverance and resilience.
The paradox is that, while these fantasies are not based on objective evidence, they manage to become reality, they are born as convictions without evidence, but they feed so positively a subject that they allow him to be fairer to himself and find the best of each situation.
Every great human achievement began as a fantastic dream, but not the other way around, as in science. There is no evidence to formulate the hypothesis, but first the objective is defined and then the evidence makes it a reality, so we can say that the more you dream, the further you go.
In the human mind, the opposite is also true. People are able to create real nightmares, which are initially only in our minds, we believe that everything will go wrong, that we do not deserve the opportunity, and although there is no evidence to support it, we have ended up giving up or sabotaging opportunities to improve ourselves.
Some of these terrible fantasies go further. Sometimes they express themselves in the form of delusions that have different intensities, an imaginary guilt is able to lead us to create an imaginary persecution, the fear of falling will make you stumble. Crazy jealousy plantes the seed of infidelity in the other.
There are cases where fantasy becomes intrusive and takes over you, you can be sure that if you sleep you will never wake up, or believe that your body is a bag of fat and stop eating, you may even imagine that your value is zero, or that your life has no purpose, and consciously or unconsciously, you will strive to die.
Humans are small imaginative animals. Fantasies have marked us since we were born, we are, above all, a happy, feared or unexpected fantasy of our parents, the meaning they give us is the one that makes our life possible, if they had not interpreted our arrival in the world in a fantastic way, we would not have been born. They built an idea, without proof, of what our life on the planet would look like. And they said “yes. “
Fantasies are at the very essence of the human being, from them we come and go to them. Every death wait has a fantastic dose. All life expectancy too. Uncertainty is the only reality, the rest, we are filled with creations of our imagination.
However, the fantasy world has a wide range of nuances, ranging from the completely absurd to the reasonable and probable. To create, to make art, it is good that we unleash our fantasies, to live we must be within the limits of what is possible, in any case it helps us a lot to understand that we can always rethorder our fantasies so that they are a force in our favor, not against.