Oh shoot it's a blog week. I'm in-between applying to Fairleigh Dickinson and going to math tutoring and going to the Homecoming Dance, so I'll make this brief.
When we watched The Importance of Being Earnest, Reese Witherspoon's caracter was frequntly shown daydreaming. We all laughed and thought it was so weird and funny, but I totally identified with her.
Story is an escape from reality. We all need imagination if we've any hope of an awesome life. Day dreaming is fun because you're more in-control and you can remember your dreams more easily than if you were night-dreaming. Sometimes, when we are amid a hectic day or honestly cannot take another sad story on the news, we need to esxape to the realm of our favourite stories or stories we've created ourselves. The downside to day dreaming, however, is when you do it so often you simply cannot concentrate-- even if it's during calculus class and we all know that you NEED to concentrate in that class!
This may come as a shock to some of you, but I think I spend more time in the realms of story than I do in reality. I used to strictly day dream of Narnia, journeying through the plot-line of my own Narnian adventures of a dryad-turned-human by Aslan to fullfil a propheesy (I still don't know what that is but I'm sure I will figure it out one day...) who ends up marrying High King Peter and ruling with the Pevensies in Narnia's Golden Age and I'm a fantastic archer and sword fighter with long chesnut hair and a high pain tolerance who can run and ride with the best of them and talks with an English accent and is a devout follower of Aslan and--- you get the idea (I've been thinking this up since, like fourh grade soit's pretty extensive lol). As I've gotten older and have been exposed to more stories, I find my daydreams broadening as well. I put my self in Camelot as I am Prince Arthur's love (Bradley James everybody-- am I right?!) or in my new favourite show Reign as Bash's love (Torrance Coombs everybody-- am I right?!). Hmm... I'm detecting a theme... yup, these are the day dreams of a love-sick and despearate-for-a-fantasy-book-like-romance teenage girl. And I'm putting this on teh internet. Oh boy.
Regardless of your day dreams and their themes, you do day dream, don't you? I hope you do, for day dreams can be quite fun. I find them thereapeutic-- envisioning an argument in your head can help you cpe with your anger. All-in-all, I hope you see stories as a healthy way to escape the day-to-day drudgery we all can experience and go on fantastical adventures.
This post spoke to me on a spiritual level. If you're looking at me in class, I'm PROBABLY MOST LIKELY daydreaming about the novel I'm writing, Tied. I constantly think of ways to improve it, or think up silly scenarios to put my characters in, or something. I honestly live to day dream. It gets me through the tough days, which are usually all of the days. I would be nowhere (probably dead) without my book. I've been working on it for about 5 years now, and I haven't stopped daydreaming since. I'm always conjuring up new ideas (Especially because the book isn't finished yet...ugh). But, sometimes it can get exhausting. Physically and mentally. I get so stressed sometimes because an idea just won't pop up, or I keep daydreaming the same thing when I should be about other things. Something like that. I also find it hard too focus in the more important classes. It's a nuisance, but I'd rather it be a bother than not there at all! Thank you for making me feel less alone in the day dreaming world!
ReplyDeleteNo problem! And ohhhh my gosh I feel your pain! I can't turn off the day dreams-- and sometimes I'll daydream something so vividly it takes me a minute to realize it actually didn't happen lol
ReplyDeleteI sometimes use daydreaming to take a break from the stress of everyday life, especially when we all are seniors (last year of high school and college applications). I love daydreaming about not caring about grades and biology once in a while. As Sam said above, daydreaming helps you develops new ideas, even those that are not possible in current times. All in all, I believe we should totally have a daydreaming class because it's very beneficial :P
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