Do you have an imaginary world?

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I have one that I write about sometimes.
I create characters for it and people have told me they like my "oc's" which is the name for other characters of a cartoon or a television show but I never thought of them like that. I created them all by using pieces of my own personality and they're like imaginary friends to me.
I make up my own world for them and in this world I am the one they answer to or kind of like a goddess almost, as silly as that sounds.

My nickname at work is Wolfman--but I'm more like a cat man.

(I'm not trying to flirt, by the way--your screen name just struck a cord in me).

I play Traveller, so I have many imaginary worlds.

This thread makes me feel like I should get back to writing. I enjoyed "being" in that world and taking the characters through experiences. Problem is I don't know where to take the story at the moment... but I guess I overthink it too much. Worrying about if it makes sense or if other people would think it's good. I should stop over-analyzing it. As long as I'm passionate about it then maybe others would be too... and if no one else likes it, oh well.

But like OP said, another issue is getting "too" into the world. To where it's hard to snap back to reality. Sometimes it makes it hard to sleep too as I'll keep thinking about the story and characters.

I have a couple of different imaginary worlds, one which I've visited since I was about fifteen, the other which I developed earlier this year. In the first one, I don't interact with anyone, it's like I'm watching the events unfold like a TV programme. It's a little like the children's show Arthur, and revolves around the daily life of an eight-year-old Zafara from Neopets (who looks like this: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q ... 3071854705)
and his three brothers, also Zafaras, aged nine, ten and four. Their mother is a human female who shares my name, but who isn't much like me in personality. She is the sort of mother I'd want to be if I ever had children though.

My other imaginary world, which I created and started documenting in a journal back in August, is a mythical forest called Nialiah. It's a peaceful and beautiful place, my go-to mental space when I'm trying to relax. It's inhabited by all sorts of magical creatures, including my personal companions, a white unicorn named Winnipeg, and a playful, exuberant "firefox" named Louis. Louis looks like an ordinary fox, but when agitated or over-excited, his pelt bursts into flames, like the human torch from the Fantastic Four. The whole of Nialiah is actually just a small segment of forest, deep in the heart of a much larger wood. It's protected by a magic barrier which prevents evil from entering, because the forest that surrounds it is full of dark magic, and dangerous creatures which would seek to do Nialiah's inhabitants harm.

Although I have never told anyone this before I have and imaginary world, I mean you could say I have several because I am a gamer, but when I am not gaming I have an imaginary world. I imagine I am magic and I have complete control over my universe, which is most likely because I tend to feel most stressed when I am not in control, I mean I am not a control freak or anything I don't mind other people being in control I just fell more comfortable when I am the one in control. I also have a hard time seeing myself in third person I mean I find it hard to picture myself in my imaginary world, so I have an image in my head of what I would want to look like if I was in an anime. I don't see any problem in having an imaginary world so long as you don't get lost in it, I mean I think that it helps keep our imaginations alive as well as keep our creativity flowing.

Oh dear god, yes! since I was a child.

I became aware that I was 'different' at a very early age, when I didn't have any friends like all the other kids did, I was beaten up and bullied at school at least once a week...and I was smacked and scolded at home if I didn't look at my parents when they were speaking to me (they felt it a sign of dishonesty and lying).

As such, I didn't have a single human contact in this world and my best friend, was 'man's best friend'.

So, I figured I'd create my own little universe, full of nice people who all had names and different characteristics and who gave me advice and helped me...and there would be beautiful sceneries and things that this universe just didn't seem to have.

Sometimes, I'd go for days living in my 'own little world'.

By the time I was about 10 or 11, I realised how silly this all was, and made a big meteor crash into it and totally destroying it...then I went on living my life...

....up until about 6 months ago, when this 'imaginary world' started breaking through into my current world and I thought/think I'm going crazy.

I do. And I enter them depending on my mood.

There's a world where my *actual* online game situation parallels my imaginary world. (All their personalities, what they do and what they have in real life matches there) And the story there could end anytime soon.

There's a world where I made all fictional characters come together and their worlds.

And there are worlds that varies from something random that usually invokes just random stuff to something so precise that the world itself has it's own histories, cultures, affairs, and so on.
There are few worlds I "ended" or destroyed. Yet parts of the said destroyed world got included in another worlds as a myth or a story within a story.


I plan to make one of my worlds manifest in a real medium. I haven't decided if I do it in comic or animation form.

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