[Thanks, Simone Weil, for letting me mess up your quote]
2006-07-03 10:23:49 · 19 answers · asked by gotalife 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Life IS imagination and fiction.
2006-07-03 10:32:14 · answer #1 · answered by sonyack 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All of it. Not one of us can completely objectively view reality. We all need to use our imaginations to percieve what is around us. There is simply too much information coming at us. In order to prioritize that information, we imagine what is most important to us and focus our perceptions accordingly. As we "write" the story of our own lives in our own heads, we are fictionalizing. It may be a story based on reality, but it is not reality itself.
Memory and perception = "My Life" written by me, based on a true story.
True Story, a wonderful oxymoronic phrase and comes close to expressing the kind of paradox the contemplation of which may possibly lead to enlightenment.
2006-07-03 17:35:43 · answer #2 · answered by Rico Toasterman JPA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dreams cost nothing. It is when we chase those dreams and try to make them into reality that sometimes problems occur.
I love to dream and imagine. Sometimes that is the only thing we have in life that no one else can see or take away from us.
At least Uncle Sam hasn't figured out a way to tax us on those dreams yet. :)
2006-07-04 16:57:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is everything we have seen or seem but a dream within a dream? We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams in the land of tomorrow. Also, a penny lost is a penny found.
2006-07-03 17:35:24 · answer #4 · answered by LizZARD E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All ! if a pencil has no lead .. i can still write with it ? what the powers that be/society/ main frames and infrastructures , consider real ! verses our individual interpretation and application !
ha ha ha I'll buy that for a dollar ... yeeeeeeee ha now where did i park me god damn parking place ?
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2006-07-03 17:44:48 · answer #5 · answered by OB1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would say 75%. Being a writer i'm always thinking of stories in my head and putting myself into imaginary situations.
2006-07-04 19:46:34 · answer #6 · answered by nebelfeen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
95%. I'm such a dreamer...until the other 5% kicks me in the *ss and tells me to wake up and live in reality...which it does on occasion.
2006-07-04 23:01:55 · answer #7 · answered by Felicia Fox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost all of it. Books, movies, writing, art. Just general stuff to make the day more interesting...
2006-07-03 17:29:00 · answer #8 · answered by nezzy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
80%
Sometimes I just wish I could just skip reality
I love the world in my head though sometimes its full of horrors, It gives me insights about the real world
2006-07-03 17:42:56 · answer #9 · answered by gnostic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every spare moment I have. It's like Yahoo Answers...Can't get enough of it.
2006-07-04 19:10:09 · answer #10 · answered by Optimistic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋