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Indulging in fantasy keeps your mind creative and your reality alive


Dr. Seuss once said,

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables me to laugh at life's realities."

And the scientific genius of Albert Einstein also said,

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

These quotes remind me of the reason I love watching the Star Trek series: I love the science behind the fantasy-built world that is able to take me everywhere.

I love the fact that someone was able to come up with such a dare-devil idea to bring to life many of people's daydreams about space and technology.

But more than anything, I love the fact that I can feel that wonder and curiosity for the unknown that children often have as they play.

Sigmund Freud talked about how we never actually stop letting that "play" be a part of our lives in one of his writings (link),

"As people grow up, then, they cease to play, and they seem to give up the yield of pleasure which they gained from playing. But whoever understands the human mind knows that hardly anything is harder for a man than to give up a pleasure which he has once experienced. Actually, we never give up anything; we only exchange one thing for another."

The point Freud makes in his writing about humans never giving up anything, but rather exchanging it for something else strikes me as an interesting idea worthy of continued questioning.

If we were to point a mirror at ourselves and find out how our inner desires and wishes have translated into the actions and activities we engage in (or neglect to engage in!) as adults, what would we find?

Whether we indulge in our fantasies as children or adults, the fact that we seek to create a world to fit our reality (or needs?) is a fascinating concept.

Because as Carl Jung said,

"But what great thing ever came into existence that was not first a fantasy?"

And so we become artists, since the moment we were born.

We are all artists seeking to create and build the fantasy world we so much imagined in our heads and hearts.

We become artists when we play as children and adults.

For art is simply the creation or application of the human skill and imagination seeking to create ideas for their beauty and emotional power.

A power that allows a painter to create his first masterpiece, or a chemist to perform a life-saving experiment, or a mother to juggle the struggles of patience and understanding.

I watch Star Trek because of the power it gives to reality.

I watch Star Trek because I love indulging in the fantasies of what science and technology could one day become.

And because there is no greater inspiration than the idea that there is untapped potential waiting to be discovered.

"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before."

What do your fantasies say about you?

I would love to hear from you. Reach out and connect!

Trust the process. Live the commitment.

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United States

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