My Own World

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That's ok JakeASD, I didn't take offence. Sorry if it seemed like I had !

I can't smoke Marijuana because it makes me feel unmotivated and frankly mad. Far from relaxing!

Good luck with your volunteering - I hope you get a lot from it.

Sometimes when people post quite a lot when starting a thread it can be hard to read it all. I found what you wrote engaging and easy to read though, in a style that made me want to keep reading. Who knows how ones talents may be used in the future. Perhaps yours may not be for writing novels, but it may be used in another way, writing, or involving writing in some way.
I thought these quotes by Terence Mckenna might offer some insights into the relationship of dreams and 'reality', how they might interplay, and how rejection of reality especially when it relates to culture, can be a good thing.

“Culture is not your friend, it’s an impediment to understanding what’s going on. That’s why the words cult and culture have a direct relationship to each other. Culture is an extremely repressive cult that leads to all kinds of humiliation and degradation, and automatic, unquestioned and unthinking behaviour.”

“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it’s worth.”

“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down – sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray. At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing. But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”

I'm in my own world a lot but I never really created much of an inner world. I don't really have much fantasies or an imagination. I just kind of zone-out & daydream without really thinking about much at all.