[greensky602]

I want to stop fantasizing about trivial issues in my life, however, I feel so bored in real life that I'm constantly thinking up stupid fake realities that I think I would enjoy, but know truly, realistically I wouldn't want anything but to live my life realistically. I can't stop it. It's an addiction. When I face reality, it's so complicated and demanding. I feel like I can't live up to it. My mind isn't strong. I get drowsy and I can't meet every moment with productivity. Maybe I'm demanding too much of myself right now, but how can I focus better and live in reality and do my best? Anyone have any realistic, good suggestions? Thanks.

[Perna]

I turned my fantasies, first into reading instead of fantasizing (I use to fantasize 5-15 hours every day) and then into writing. I wrote a simple novel http://mysharingspaceonline.com/story.pdf which isn't great but it's 50,000 words/175 pages and I'm working from there.

Find some way to translate what you fantasize about into your real life during your "boring" times but in a non-threatening/fun way? I got a huge piece of poster board and lots of magazines and divided my household chores into 8 or so categories and made a collage of the various chore-representations (filing/organizing papers, vacuuming, caring for my cats, cleaning the kitchen, cleaning the bathrooms, etc.) and got a pair of dice and rolled them on the board each morning to determine which chore I would work on for 10 minutes right then and there :-) I've created a bowl (like in the book I wrote, above) full of 100 things I wanted or thought I wanted to do and drawn one a week (every Sunday) and started or done that one project that week. Make reality fun and productive, use that imagination you use for fantasizing to help you with reality.