"Separating Fantasy from Reality"

Gaze

Gaze

Donor
MBTI
INFPishy
Found an interesting article. Thoughts?



​

Separating reality from fantasy is fairly easy. We all know the moon isn’t red and that we can’t levitate our wineglasses or snap our fingers to create meals. We know we’re not superheroes and have no magical powers.
And yet, sometimes we wonder if we can separate fantasy from reality, especially when a character that we play in a role-playing game becomes a person we feel almost truly exists.
Characters do exist – in our minds. This makes them a blend of imagination and of reality. They come from you; they’re part of you.

But the fact that you can almost touch these characters in no way labels you as someone with a multiple personality disorder or a person out of touch with reality. Characters often reflect pieces of who we are. People are very multi-faceted and personalities are rich – and so are our characters.

The best characters are ones that are very close to our hearts. We can relate to their pain. We understand their suffering. We feel joy for the same reasons as the character and we feel sadness, too. We take what we know and feel to pour that into imaginary people we create.
Then we give them life.

So when a situation upsets our characters and we find ourselves walking around every day with tears in our eyes until the problem is resolved, it’s normal to wonder whether the lines between reality and fantasy have blurred.

They haven’t. Trust us. You’re fine.

You know who you are. Your character will never be identical to you, no matter how many similarities you might share. Situations too close to home may cause some introspection and make you feel more than you’d like to, but chances are, you know who you are and it isn’t your character.

Sometimes characters are us but with the ability to have what we never did. Sometimes characters share our past problems, the ones we never overcame.

Could your character be a reflection of you? Certainly. But reflections are never perfect, and they never have the rich color or depth of dimension of the real thing.

http://capturingfantasy.com/separating-fantasy-from-reality
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
feel more than you’d like to
Click to expand...

I do this all the time, though it has little to do with characters.
 
yeah. I think I'm quite aware of that (made several characters, used or not, albeit not as much as some people have....)

I'm thinking of it as a RPG-style party and/or equipment, really. With me as its leader / user, and them as the equipments, made and chosen and suited for me...

And each, has their own story to tell.
 
it really pisses me off how everyone has an incredibly witty signature and a badass picture and i have nothing
 
denkster06 said:
it really pisses me off how everyone has an incredibly witty signature and a badass picture and i have nothing
Click to expand...

Look up. Find User CP. Profit :D (Or any minimum post are required?)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top