I would join real life groups that share your interests. I would also look hard at what my "interests" are and whether they are practical for who I am? If you are interested in travelling, I would assume you have traveled some? If you have not traveled, are just reading books and looking at movies/documentaries, etc. then you need some practical experience in travelling before you can say, "Yes, that's an interest of mine I want to pursue". Otherwise it may just be you enjoy reading about travelling and it is not a "dream" that needs living?

What I am saying is that dreams are very complicated and not something you are either doing or not doing/living or not living. My local community college has lots of bus trips to major cities on the East Coast of the United States. If I want to see how I liked travelling, I would take one of the bus trips or create my own trip (if I anticipated travelling alone) to take locally. Often what we imagine a dream will be like is not what it is like at all but it takes time and practice and working with the dream in many of its aspects to see that.

Our dreams really don't have much to do with others, unless we are dreaming we want to be with others. But even "being with others" can have multiple facets. Having a partner is different from being in a group; being in a church group and visiting Israel is different from working on a kibbutz but all of those, even though they are with other people, are ultimately about us and being with us. Picturing ourselves rich and famous and happy and healthy and with companions, etc. is just part of the motivation, not the dream itself. I use to imagine being an philanthropist and would spend hours working on creating charities and how I'd use $10,000,000 :-) But then one day I got real and looked at what I had now and how I could use what I have now to match my Andrew Carnegie spirit. I came up with a small idea of saving a small amount of money and giving it as a "scholarship" for buying poorer college students' books. I tend to think in terms of having to buy all their books for multiple students but what if I saved $25/month and gave away a single $150 twice a year, fall and spring semester? What if I saved/invested that money and gave it to my "favorite" niece when she went off to college/in 5 years? Why just give to charities someone else has established instead of making it personal?

I would start "doing" something, anything, toward a dream of yours; buy yourself a motivating t-shirt or new pair of hiking boots? Join a walking club to get in shape for travelling and then tell a friend or two what you're doing and why? Get on the subway and "map" the city your way, taking notes and write up a little guidebook for yourself. Buy a guidebook of your area and travel to some of the destinations in there. The best way I've found to get over fears is to engage them in some small way. Being afraid is all in one's head, not part of reality as fear is always about the future, not the right now that you are "doing". If I am afraid of not having any friends when I am 82, going out now and making some new friends can help make that fear go away. We're all beginners at things we have never done and beginnings can be scary. But we have to begin to get over that?