Fantasy allows us to see and feel stuff that is not currently here.

We can daydream, project, and imagine non-existing situations until they’re (almost) real and present.

Tropical island?

Check.

Little b&b on a picturesque Portuguese mountaintop, goat included?

No problem.

Sitting in a Ferrari, slowly driving the Saint-Tropez boulevard?

There we go!

We can create moments, people, feelings, and sensations without leaving our couch.

We can escape winter, marriage, and even addiction, and be somewhere and someone else for a little while.

And we can call that inspiration, or disappointment.

It’s one of those things.

We don’t really think it’s a big deal.

But it is.

It’s gigantic.

In fact: it’s the ONLY deal.

Not just as a rich and deeply engaging ability, but mostly because of the implications it has for when we’re not daydreaming.

Or don’t know we are.

Our talent, our unique capability, to create almost any circumstance vividly and completely, is actually what we consider to be life.

We never NOT do it.

This is how the world is created.

Every second of our life is produced by the same amazing experience factory.

Our relationships.

Our feelings.

Our careers.

Holidays.

Prison.

Success.

Failure.

Worry and fear.

Relief and excitement.

Craving and fulfillment.

All of those things may not look like daydreams or products of our imagination, but they are.

They are aspects of life, they ARE life, and they consist within our story, our experience, our existence.

They come alive within us, just like our dreams.

This is not just a big thing.

This is EVERY thing.

Experience, no matter what it’s about and how it feels, is this magical system at play.

Rich.

Engaging.

Realistic.

And always churning out new stuff in a seemingly uninterrupted way.

Life IS a daydream.

And sometimes there’s a goat.

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