Do you prefer fantasy or reality?

Question

1. In YOUR own life. or 2. In general.

GuyAnswersGirls123 · Accepted Answer

I wasn't quite sure how to answer the question. I went for reality even though I enjoy a dose of fantasy to augment and interpret reality in a more romantic and interesting way.

For example, I am very allergic to people who say, "Love is just chemical reactions in the brain," since to me that's like saying a Rembrandt masterpiece is just "oil pigment on canvas." It's like saying that going to a 7-Course Michelin-Star French restaurant is just a very inefficient way to get macro and micronutrients.

To reduce such things to the simplest technical descriptions removes all potential to interpret things in the richest and most meaningful of ways and quickly devolves into a very nihilistic view of the world. So I think we have to be romantics, in a sense, just to interpret the world in a reach and meaningful way.

Yet I don't consider that living in a world of fantasy. I just consider it to be living in a world of value and meaning.

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

Definitely reality.

I enjoy a book or movie like anyone else, and a bit of an escape can be enjoyable, for a couple of hours, but I spend the vast majority of my life in the real world, and I wouldn't want it any other way. I don't drink alcohol or use drugs for the same reason - I want to be awake and sober and actually be able to think straight and remember my life.

LaFemmeFatale_1 · Accepted Answer

Reality…

When I was young, and I was sad about something, I comforted myself by thinking that, feeling sad means I am alive, and it’s better than feeling nothing. So, instead of worrying too much, I tried to feel grateful for being alive.

While fantasy world can be much more stress free and beautiful, we cannot run from reality.

There’s a beauty in reality, even when and if it hurts. No fantasy world can repeat that beauty.

It only comes from the combination of all the raw feelings we feel, all the obstacles we overcome in the real and even the times we fail.

It feels like comparing aquarium to the sea.

DeeDeeDeVour · Accepted Answer

My reality isn't bad at all.  So, why should I choose otherwise.  In fact, some others consider my reality to be their desired fantasy.

CalmUntilAbused · Answer

Every time I see a truck, I feel tempted to jump in front of it, it's just that there isn't anyone for me to save from certain death in order for that jump to not be considered a suicide. So yeah, in short, I prefer the fantasy. I know at least a few alternate realities where I would make a better job having a successful life than in the reality at hand, so it's not much of a choice. Suicide being a serious sin that would cast me into hell (no point "escaping" to a location just like the one I've just escaped from, but everlasting), the unwillingness to hurt my family and a single, futile hope for love in the future is all that keeps me from testing if the  isekai  stories are true. I'm doing all I can to somehow accomodate to the reality without abandoning my morals and ideals, but it proves impossible. I manage to survive and to resist the urges to die, but that's about as much as I can ever accomplish under the circumstances at hand.

molonski2 · Answer

I cannot really answer one or the other , but you kinda have to live reality , with a little fantasy , that often becomes Reality anyhow , they blurr.

But , I dont live in mindless fantasy , thats for sure , no way.

Sevenpointfive · Answer

i think the purpose of dreaming is to open the mind to reality and fantasy. i prefer to REM hardcore, with total body sweat. the endorphins when you wake up don't last long, but it's such an incredible high

NathanDavis · Answer

the one I live... however, I kind of want to get back to some gaming, because of GTA 6... lol

PeachyPie93 · Answer

It used to be fantasy but I can't escape anymore. So neither they both suck. If I didn't hate drug addicts so much I probably would be come one.

aceleon · Answer

fantasy. reality is the eventual killer of everything good, yes you can't run from reality but you can always take a break from it.

PBandJ_Nerd · Answer

I always have my head in the clouds, so we could maybe say fantasy? But honestly, it's just a coping mechanism so do what you think of that.

WhiteSteve · Answer

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worldscolide · Answer

I prefer to live in reality.. But i read and game to escape reality when i need to de-stress

Joshydavid25 · Answer

As a wise man once said "Reality s often disappointing".. But you gotta live in it because it's the read deal for you..

Jamie05rhs · Answer

I like to envision the future that I wish to become reality.

legalboxers · Answer

This..

KillinItHard · Answer

I think it's healthy to want a good mix of both 🤷

OddBeMe · Answer

I’d be like inception and always nervous I wasn’t in reality and put a gun to my head jnc.

Anonymous · Answer

Why is reality shown as a woman doing dishes?🤣

Stella98_ · Answer

On tv or movies I like fantasy reality. I watch it to escape from reality.

Jmmmfi4 · Answer

FANTASY DEFINITELY... MY REALITY NOT A GOOD ONE

Erin2003 · Answer

Can’t escape reality, sometimes sadly

electromagnetic · Answer

Reality is still an easier pill to swallow

serious · Answer

Reality for sure.

IslaTheWitch · Answer

Reality with some imagination

Nikki1989 · Answer

Reality is enjoyable enough.

Anonymous · Answer

Depends sexually or just in life general

Dargil · Answer

The Red Pill.

jaskin777 · Answer

Reality

LavLavLuv · Answer

Reality…🤷🏻‍♀️

Liketotry · Answer

Reality

Sitewalker · Answer

Reality

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