Fixations about imaginary worlds

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Do you also tend to have fixations about worlds from popular movies or novels, strong enough to make you totally immersed in those illusoric world created in your heads? I always live in fantasy world whose shape depends on stuff I recently watched or read about - I imagine I live there, I'm one of inhabitants of that world living there with characters taken from comics or novels or people known from history.

Now it's a world of the future based on few s-f sources - a computer game Heavy Metal FAKK2, the Terminator movies, that crappy film about Judge Dredd with Stallone as the title hero, Asimov's "Naked sun", Star Trek and Dune (a bit - I am not a big fan of Dune despite the fact my username is stolen from one of its characters). It's my main imaginary world now but I like also sliding into worlds of "Vampire chronicles" by Anne Rice, the X-men world or, above all Harry Potter one for a change. Some other of my internal worlds were based also on Chicago from Prohibition times or the series Heaven help us: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0599211/

I like post-apocalyptic scenery and deserts.

Oh, you just completely summarized myself in the 7th grade.

Although, instead of Sci-fi, I like fantasy, Renaissance Fantasy mostly, although, I have imaginary worlds all the time, from fantasy to modern to, well, yes, anything.

I'd say roleplaying them with other people who share the interests in the place would help you a lot, s'what I do, anyway.

For me it'd have to be mainly Pern but also many of the other planets and worlds created by Anne McCaffrey.

Anyone live in Middle Earth?

Not me, sorry I don't like Tolkien's world too much - I mean, I like reading about adventures of Frollo and his friends but I'm not a big fan. I prefer the world of Lengorchia to it, if speaking of fantasy novels

Lengorchia? I'm not familiar with it...what's it like?

I get immersed in imaginary worlds of my own creation. I've never been one to fantasize about imaginary worlds from books or movies. If one inspires me, I'll create my own version of it, and gradually change it until it's completely different.

i do... but it comes from my dreams. im a total spacecase

It wasn't translated into English, unfortunately. Not great literature, books from the series are rather light-hearted but I like them a lot. It's how I described it the other time: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt47569.html
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postx19705-195-0.html

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Same here! Can we talk about ours via PM?

Thanks for the link. Sounds sort of sad, the price paid for talents is deformity. Well at least it's realistic in the sense that it's not a perfect world.

My mind is a horror setting drenched in romanticism. I let go of reality long ago... there was nothing in the real world left to interest me, it was all nihilistic. My body resides in the pure physical, secular realm, but my mind, soul, and spirit are vanished away into a universe of my own devising. I'll never relapse to where I was. I like it where I am. It's so darkly and beautifully profound... limitless.

- D

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The series is not finished yet. There are volumes: The Weaver of Illusion, Marked with blue, Wormwood and honey and Stone on the peak but there's also another volume planned. In the last one there was a motive of a baby boy who was born with no deformities but his talent seems to be so strong that making him practically a god (comparing Lengorchia to the X-men he could be said to be equally strong as Mr M or Apocalypse).

I'm fixated on the Benny & Joon characters living in Spokane but it's always sad to see they aren't really there when I go to that city. They're just actors and they were there in summer of '92 when the movie was being filmed. I know they were there in May because I watched the costume screen thing on the DVD and the thing was dated May of 92 and they were screening the costumes on the actors seeing what color fits them and what color looks the best on them. It even showed Johnny depp practicing the roll dance he did in the diner and it showed him practicing his silent movie act on the matt (he did in the park) outside the house Benny and Joon lived in in the movie. The filming started in June. How long did it take them to film the movie I do not know but I still try to find out. I also learned facts about the movie like it took them two days to film the park scene because it rain and then it stop.
It's sad to see the inside of their home isn't actually the inside of their house, that was probably done in the studio or in another house. They used this old warehouse in Spokane as their soundstage and set. Right when I saw the house in real life I right away knew the inside of their house in the movie was filmed elsewhere because their house is too narrow for the inside to be in their house because it's too big. You can also tell in the movie too.
I suspected it anyway when I was 17 because their kitchen has two windows but on the outside of their house, there was only one and their house looked too narrow anyway. Movies need to be more realistic IMO about that kind of stuff. Sometimes they do a good job. They can film outside a house in a film and the inside elsewhere and we would never guess that is not the real inside of the house because the inside looked big enough it would fit inside the house and the windows that are int he show, match the outside of the house. I didn't guess that with Roger and Anita's house with their first level but in the scene where Pongo goes on the roof, I suspected that might have been elsewhere because their house is only two stories and how does Roger's office, Nanny's bedroom, the nursery and their bedroom all fit on the second floor? Studio or filmed the scenes elsewhere. Where would the bathroom fit lol. After going to London, I saw they have water closets so they probably had a water closet. They build the bathroom in a closet because there isn't enough room to out in the bathroom so they put it in the closet so that's why they call it the water closet.


When I was obsessed with 101 dalmatians, I had a fantasy about Roger and Anita living in London and their Dalmatians. Funny thing is my imagination is so vivid, people actually thought I thought the characters were real.


I used to fantasize about Kevin from Home Alone and I wanted to meet him (the actor) not the character and my mother thought I actually wanted to meet the character instead of the actor because she was telling me one day he isn't real, he is just a movie star and I will never meet him. I used to call him Kevin instead of Macauly Culkin like I call Mary Stuart Masterson Joon. Sometimes I call Johnny Depp Sam.

Heck, when I go to Spokane, I call Ferguson's cafe Ruthie's diner or the Benny & Joon diner because that was where she worked in the movie but that doesn't mean I think she actually works there, especially me going by the house from the movie and saying that's where "Benny and Joon live." I full well know they don't live there, that was only in the movie. They never even lived there when it was being filmed. They used the outside of it and they paid the owners for letting them use it for the movie.

Sounds like an interesting series...pity it isn't translated into English.