Building and living in Fantasy Worlds is a survival strategy. This means that it was necessary for you to use those fantasy worlds to survive. This is neither good nor bad. It just is. Welcome to reality.
Fantasy Worlds are a much more common survival strategy than you might think. Everyone is running around with some kind of fantasy. Fantasy Worlds are a strategy to protect you from reality. Probably, as a child, you had needs that went unmet. In order to escape from the pain of having these unmet needs, you retreated into Fantasy Worlds. You created a second, third, fourth, fifth pseudo-reality, each one subtly different and meeting a different need.
Not all of these Fantasy Worlds are unicorns and cotton candy. Some are dark, gritty, disturbing. The only defining characteristic of of a Fantasy World is that it you have located yourself somewhere else other than reality. It means you are not in the Small Now.
You imagine that your next article will be so great that all of your friends will share it with their friends and you will have one hundred new subscribers in a week. This is a Fantasy World.
You imagine that your Bridge House will be so successful that it will become a fountain of Archiarchy in your region, naturally and with no work at all. This is a Fantasy World.
You imagine as you walk through the city streets at night that behind every corner is some man waiting to rob you and kill you. This is a Fantasy World.
You imagine that all of your friends secretly hate you, that they cannot wait until you are gone to laugh at you. This is a Fantasy World.
You imagine that you have no Fantasy Worlds, that you are totally in reality one hundred percent of the time. This is probably a Fantasy World.
It is up to you to discover how much you live in fantasy. Are you ready to come back to reality?
Warning: Being in a Fantasy World protects you from reality, but there is a price to pay. When you come back to reality, you will start to feel and not be able to avoid looking at the consequences of modern culture.
You might discover this overhwhelming desire for a next culture, for a different culture that is not killing the planet. You might no longer be able to ignore the anger you have about the world and the desecration of Gaia, our planet Earth. You may not be able to pretend anymore that you do not care.
You will lose the ability to say “It's not so bad.” Outside of the Fantasy Worlds, the pain of trying to pretend will become like fire cutting through your bodies. Your numbness bar will go down. You will not be able to pretend to have patience for people if you do not have it.
You will not be able to adapt, without falling back into a Fantasy World. This does not mean that you automatically have discovered all your dimensions in which you adapt. Do not go into the next fantasy. Slowly, all these Fantasy Worlds will become visible, and you will recognise self-abuse and feel the impact of it. For the first time in this liquid state it helps to not think so much, just do. Do one thing after the other & keep feeling, keep beathing. Even if you cry longingly while using your physical body, let it happen. Do not stop.