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I wish the Harry Potter world was real.
![]() Anyone else feel that way? I felt like I was healing and growing with each movie installment: I related to discovery and rescue in 1. I related to overcoming obstacles in 2. I related to anger, revenge, and new family in 3. I related to competing and witnessing death in 4. I related to forming alliances and overcoming internal chaos in 5. I related to deception, grief, and loss in 6. I related to exile and hiding in 7a. I related to conquering death and the coming of age in 7b. |
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I've never read the Harry Potter books nor seen the movies. But, many years ago, I was heavily into this sort of fantasy thing. I was just sure there must be more to life than what we see around us every day & it was just a matter of finding it. I recall one segment of the TV series: "Cosmos" where Carl Sagan talked about times when he was a child he would go outside at night, stretch out his arms, & hope to be contacted (or perhaps whisked away ?) by some super-intelligent space aliens. I did the same thing.
![]() As I've become older I've come to realize that "what you see is what you get." So I've given up on fantasy. Give me a good BBC murder mystery. I've even wondered sometimes what society would be like if kids were brought up in the real world & didn't have their heads filled with fantasies...Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, & all the rest. Perhaps childhood would be less fun. But we might be more stable as adults because I think that, as adults, we keep trying to find our ways to those fantasies we grew up with... one of the reasons people sometimes have kids I think so they can re-live their childhood fantasies through their kids. ![]() As I understand it, from what little I've read or heard from people who study such things, this whole childhood fantasy thing in our culture is a fairly recent development in history. It wasn't so many years ago that children were simply viewed as little adults (which may or may not have been a good thing.) But then somebody realized how much money there was to be made in immersing people (children & adults alike) in fantasy. So here we are. ![]() Anyway... just a few thoughts with regard to your post. Thanks for posting it. I enjoyed having the opportunity to reply. ![]() ![]()
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Thank you @Skeezyks
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Here's a link to the Starman series I liked: Starman (TV Series 1986–1987) - IMDb Quote:
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![]() As a person with a dissociative disorder, fantasy comes easy to me. I wonder if fantasy played a role in the forming of my dissociation. Hmm.... ![]() |
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