Is it normal to want to escape into my own world?

I understand you. I use to live in my own world too. I wanted to be a writer and I had all these ideas constantly swimming in my head. Every time I went to bed I fell asleep to the ongoing events in these stories, every time I had a minute to think I would dive back in it was great for awhile, I wasn't bothered. Until it was all I could to get away. Constantly running away. My whole life I've spent running away from things. This is just another way. And honestly man, I am going to tell you straight up, the world is fucking sad, and boring, because you don't do anything but observe. I mean no wonder nothing is exciting anymore. You are on the outside looking in.

Maybe you are trapped in your own sad reality you've created for yourself. Have you really done it all? Found the love of your live? Pursued your career? Try to find God or love or peace or something? Something meaningful beyond the the mind you retreat to?

I challenge you to challenge me, if you think I'm not right let's go through it.

I can really relate to this. I draw very often and create my own abstract world on paper. I get lost in it and can spend hours doing it.
Everything in moderation, though.

Ey bro.. Read a book.. Non - Fiction one.. And learn new things, maybe the way your world view is limited.. Go out and have fun.. You talk like a person who has at least lived for a thousand years.. Cartoons,Anime,Video games etc are figment of someones imagination,if you want to go as far as stooping down to that level.. That's a shame, you more than that bro.. I can relate to an "extent" .. I love Naruto..[Anime] and sometimes I wish it were real but getting over it is something important.. There's way more to life

I feel kind of sad for you in a way, it appears you have such a bleak outlook on life. I'm always really happy when a new year comes around because I think of all the new and interesting things that are going to happen in my OWN life, not in the world as a whole. Maybe that's selfish but it keeps me happy.

But I dispute some of your points here. Each decade I'm sure people say, well there's nothing original left to do, everything that's going to be invented has already been invented. And each decade technology advances, unrelenting. Humanity most certainly has not achieved everything it wants to, not by a long shot.

Technology is definitely not becoming more boring, rather the contrary. I can think of several exciting technological things coming up in the future just off the top of my head. Electric cars from Tesla, the prospect of Evacuated Tube Transport, Space Tourism, Curing Type 1 Diabetes, Hydrogen Fuel Cells. There are so many interesting things in the world, you just have to look for them.

Try fanfiction. Seriously. You can write out your own personal world abd put it in the uncatagorized catagory. Or go on Quotev, it's basically the same. Or Wattpad.
Keep your fantasy world going :) it helps with everyday life in this rather hypocritical, boring, and hostility ridden world.

Well i seem to live in another world from the day i was born.Everydobdy who talks to me always thinks im weird in some way or another.

You are all a fitment of my imagination and if you are so unhappy here, I'll just unimagine you. OK?

I was in another world...world of 20. 20thousand women

Here's a few things you can try, I've looked into this before (there are absolutely NO drugs or any medication involved)

Out of body experience
Lucid dreaming
Isolation tanks/flotation tanks
Virtual reality (oculus rift)

Now, if you've heard of an out of body experience or lucid dreaming, it essentially allows you to control your dreams. When you enter an out of body experience, you can freely fly around your world doing what you please. But a lucid dream is when you wake up when you are sleeping and can control, create, and experience anything in your dreams.

Isolation tanks are known to cause temporary sensory deprivation, and in turn give more lucidity to the brain. This can almost cause a retreat inside your head deeper than anything else known.

Virtual reality is the most feasible and cheapest due to recent technological advancements. I have one of the very first developers kit from Oculus, and the immersion is incredible. The world covers your entire vision with no black boxes or anything, and also tracks your movements as well. If you turn your head in the rift, the vision turns as well. It's also fairly cheap for the second kit, costing about $350. This could also be a way to escape from reality.
Look into all of those.

And my final piece of advice is to find what makes you happy in life, and hold onto that, forget about the bad in the world as those things don't affect you. You have enough problems, and if you want to find a world worth living, you have to be the one to create it. Don't ever be afraid of what others think; they'll never make you happy like you could.

Most sane people stay sane by having aprivate world to retreat to. When something pisses me off in real life, I always imagine moving to a brand new country where people have better lives without whatever it is that pissed me off. When I say a brand new coutry, I imagine it to be a medium-sized island that just suddenly appears in the middle of the ocean, and no existing country has a claim on it and no existing ethnicity/religion/pressure group can claim it is their ancestral land, so all sane people are welcome there.

That said, there is one fantastic thing we still don't have - interplanetary travel. I would quite happily abandon my new island home for a starship travelling amongst the stars.

i do the same thing

i want to live in the pokemon world

Maybe your clinically depressed? I've felt that way most of my life.

I do everytime i switch on my xbox/ps3/wii/3ds.

Yes it's totally normal to be unsatisfied with your life, which is exactly the problem.

To OP:
I feel this way a lot as well.

This life sucks. That is true. I would rather enjoy living in a reality where everything spins around me rather than around others.

Yeah.
This world is so corrupt and horrible right now, I don't know if it will ever come right.

I, too would like to contribute to society, but I wonder if it is even worth it as I'm unsure whether enough people like me even exist to save it from it's eventual and impending downfall.