Well Florida is in the middle of a storm coming in up north but because it’s in the gulf our weather is going into it’s 3rd day of miserable…suppose to come on land about midnight or so in the panhandle. I’ll be so happy to see the sun again.
Today’s pictures are still England and my last of Scotland for this trip as the next day we headed back to London by train.
Today I’m looking at Fantasy for the last time HONEST….and I’ll be back with something more concrete (maybe) on Monday.
but first we got get our getting thru Droughtlander aides.
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I’ve always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. James Duval
KEEP Up on all the spoilers, pictures taken at the shooting–which is now on etc. and you can start here: http://www.gamenguide.com/articles/41858/20160830/outlander-season-3-air-date-spoilers-news-update-jamie-fraser-seen-covered-with-blood-showrunner-teases-different-settings.htm
and this one too:
‘Outlander’ Season 3 Spoilers: Plot Disclosed by Showrunner? Major Change in Scenery?
Get out your history book and check out on Culloden, research it so that you can really get into the rights and wrongs of what they did on the show: Here’s latest on shooting: http://www.ibtimes.com.au/outlander-season-3-production-update-sam-heughan-uses-cell-phone-set-1526833
and read that next book…that’ll take you all winter?
More Spoilers to look at: http://en.yibada.com/articles/155313/20160829/outlander-season-3-spoilers-jamie-claire-reunite-20-years-major.htm
I’m often daydreaming, and it’s because I’ve always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world. Samantha Shannon
So we have been dealing with fun fantasy and crazy fantasy and fantasy we can’t afford but it’s still fun to look at…but what if fantasy goes too far. According to the New York Times: “…a fascinating minority, spend most of their waking lives lost in a fantasy world, leaving it to join the common reality almost as a visitor.”
“According to researchers, about 4 percent of people spend half or more of their waking hours absorbed in reverie. The fantasies are not mere fleeting daydreams but something of a cross between a dream and a movie, where an elaborate scenario unfolds once a theme is set. Vivid fantasies can be triggered by some chance element; the word ”Egypt,” for instance, can prompt a detailed mental drama about the days of the pharaohs. “
So as is ALWAYS the case with the human animal what is weird to some, is interesting for others, enjoyable for some and subs for reality with a minor dysfunctional few. I wander why this is always the case….and don’t tell me you don’t see it….what my father shunned as demon rum, I enjoy but not to excess while others I know can’t drink just one.
I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. George Lucas
They of course have a name for it—they have a name for everything—For instance people who fear frogs are said to have frog phobia or ranidaphobia (from the most widespread frog species or type or what ever).
The name: Maladaptive daydreaming—Now while this appears to not be accepted in all schools of psychological thoughts–those that do accept it define it an individual who daydreams to an abnormal amount to the point that it begins to have negative impacts on their real day to day life. As with all condition it can vary between different people in terms of the symptoms and severity (duh).
And while Singer (1966) “reported that 96 per cent of presumably normal, fairly well educated, American adults engaged in some form of daydreaming daily. ” This 4% seem to manage to go above and beyond the rest of us –if you consider your self normal in your day dreaming—which I’m not always be so sure about me but them I’m a writer so I should be (hopefully) be given a little wobble room here.
I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway. Kate Smith
Symptoms (which often date from childhood)
The person’s behavior is often similar to addictive (as in drugs) behavior in others.
Different people have different triggers which can include books (Outlander), movies (or TV Shows on Starz), video games and similar media or other similar sources and often is very detailed and based on the details (indepth) of the source.
The reason for this escapism can range from an effort just to escape from day to day life or in some case from trauma, or abuse from which the person is trying to escape.
Television is simply automated daydreaming. Lee Loevinger
And then what treatments can you get for this disorder—well first most psychs haven’t heard of the condition, or if the have they don’t recognized the diagnosis as a real condition.
I’ve read account of some persons that were helped by taking certain anti-depressant medication, in particular one used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorders which makes sense as this condition does actually resemble that one in more ways than one….just with a different interest spin.
Other accounts (on line an so always to be taken with more than a bit of caution and skeptic overview) states that the MD was actually helped with doses of magnesium and she felt that she had a magnesium issue.
According to the University of Maryland Medical Center the symptoms of this are:
- Agitation and anxiety
- Restless leg syndrome (RLS)
- Sleep disorders
- Irritability
- Nausea and vomiting
- Abnormal heart rhythms
- Low blood pressure
- Confusion
- Muscle spasm and weakness
- Hyperventilation
- Insomnia
- Poor nail growth
- Seizures
which might cause you to feel bad enough to want to escape but doesn’t appear to have any actual relationship that I can associate, but then I am only a lowly nurse.
Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry – a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language – and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. Edward Hirsch
So I’ll leave you 4% to work it out with your shrink, but for the rest of us I think a little bit of dreamin’ about that hot star….from Sam Heughan’s Jamie to Chris Helmsworth’s Thor and everybody’s dreams in between—-from re-living Star Wars and Star Trek—to being Hobbits wandering in the wilderness and Superman saving the city, it’s all a way to find a little release from an increasingly mechanical and mechanized world that has little patience with our passions and short comings….and so I say dream on fair reader…whether you want to jump Darth and make him pay for his evilness or Princess Lea and make her enjoy your evilness….its something that gets your mind away from that project that you have to present tomorrow and for which you have serious feeling that once you present it you’re going to be jumping onto the unemployment line…what ever….live a little fantasy…..I have and I’m still kinda sane.
I don’t think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn’t. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry. James Tate
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don’t quit your daydream. ~Author Unknown
