Imagination causing wistful feelings?

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This is difficult to phrase, but I will try my best. I've often immersed myself in fiction or sci-fi/fantasy novels (and movies but to a lesser extent) and I've come to realize something. Humans have such a capacity for imagination. We dream up entire worlds, civilizations, and species in our heads, and we bring forth these ideas into literature, cinema, and other forms. But these fantastic ideas only exist in our minds, whether we're reading a book or watching a movie. Do you ever feel a sense of loss that the things we imagine just don't exist? We dream up such wonderful stories and universes, but they will never actually exist.

Sometimes I wish I could just exist in the universe of one of my favorite book series. Maybe I sound crazy; I don't take these things very seriously. I'm only saying that I wish the things we imagine could be real. I wish there actually was a wardrobe leading to Narnia, or a way into Middle Earth. Wouldn't it be cool if there actually were mythical creature like dragons and elves and stuff like that? Does anyone understand what I'm trying to explain, this sense of sadness that our imaginations won't ever be reality?

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  • chained_rage
    8 years ago

    Talk to wistfulmaiden. She is the most qualified user on here in this aspect.

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  • Waya
    8 years ago

    When you wistfully fall asleep you're imagination blooms diffrent realms where nothing is impossible

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  • TrustMeImLying
    8 years ago

    it's why there was a time where I was actually enjoyed going to sleep, and was bummed when I woke up, because my dreams often made me experience these fictional universes.

    Firefly would be another nice universe to live in. what would be the worst?

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  • Short4Words
    8 years ago

    I noticed something recently that I've spent a good chunk of my life trying to leave this world and enter a new one. Be it daydreaming or video games or movies. This world will never be as like the ones we dream up but when you really think about it, it's a pretty cool place. Pretty much everything you'd want out of a story exists here, and you're part of it.

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    • TrustMeImLying
      8 years ago

      great point in your last line. a lot of fictional universes are extensions/exaggerations of aspects in the real world anyway -- so it is possible to have a taste of them.

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