The evolution of life drags a person to be taken by reality, without being able to avoid a strong impact on their inner world, with the consequent pain.
Situations neither sought nor desired trap, seeming to be part of a film in which one does not choose to participate. And from one moment to the next, you have the position of main actor!
Feeling “suffocated and suffocated” by a sadness and anguish that struggles to emerge, moments in which reality becomes unbearable, seeming that hope is extinguished.
In the distance in the memory, pleasant sounds are heard that increase their volume.
And suddenly those magical expressions of some children heard in the office resonate: “Germán, now let’s play pretend I can (fly, not be afraid of the dark, be giant and have super strength!)”, transforming for a while into superheroes with great powers. These colorful expressions full of play and fantasy allow them to face and defeat those feared monsters, facing a cruel reality that passes through them but that they did not choose to live.
Paraphrasing Chespirito: “he who lacks fear is not a hero, he who feels it, faces it and overcomes it is a hero.”
As we grow up and reach adulthood, various daily situations will no longer depend on our own control, increasing the emotional load and generating stress. An outside world overwhelms and invades, the pressure being too much. At first, we try to “not listen, or listen differently” to what invades. But if this is not possible, the psyche presents other resources. One of them is to resort to fantasize, mental process produced by imagination, as opposed to perceptual images. From the fancy, reality is playfully recreated, transformed from the imagination, to try to achieve pleasure. A imaginary scriptthe subject trying to realize a desire.
When the “refuge in fantasy” is excessive, there is a risk of inhibition in the ties and activities of the outside world, and one may become trapped in a “dream state”. To the “fall out of dream”, the impact of cruel reality is enhanced by the renunciation of the pleasure of fantasy.
In this way, one can think of the fantasize as a healthy resource to be used in a balanced way, as a rescue from reality, and not as something constant.
There are spaces that contribute to health, giving rise to the expression of desire, through art and fantasy.
As Ray Bradbury said: “you have to inject yourself with fantasy every day, so as not to die from reality.”
Text: Lic German Rothstein.
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