how do you escape reality?

Question

no drugs, drinking, or any other bad vices please...

Answer 1

lose yourself in relationships with others? yfs

Answer 2

You don't. You only learn to deal with it differently.
The quicker your accept the true reality of your situation and to do this you must use the standard measurement of "To thine own self be true", the quicker you deal with the reality.
You can never escape it, but you can certainly change how you think about what ever it is that is making you feel that you have to escape.

Don't evade the issue that is causing you to feel like that. Face the problem with truth and honesty and you will see how much better reality can be when you are living it rather than trying to escape it.

Answer 3

Well you have to define it first.

Which is impossible.

So you get pissed off. Because it is all so gray.

But then you realize...if I had all the answers, life would suck...yeah?

So you accept reality as it is. Gray and void of true reason.

You realize being void of reason, is contradictory to the idea of reality...Hence the prefix Real.

But if Reality (real) is gray, so is escapism.

So you go, damn...I've been down this gray road.

So you except reality for what it is...cause no matter how unrealistic you are, REALity, has you beat.

Then you embrace it. And just be you.

"If it weren't for life, we;d have nothing to do."

Answer 4

I read. I like to read about someone else's problems to get away from my own. Is that mean? I just like to hear about someone else's story, other than being miserable for myself.

I also fall asleep and have a dream about a movie instead of about life. I can actually control my dreams.

Or I talk to my friends. Not about my problems. About anything but my problems. They make me laugh and they make me happy, and that's all you really need to escape reality.

Answer 5

Songwriting on my guitar...

When I feel overwhelmed by "The Big Picture" of my life and others, I sit down with my electric or acoustic guitar and write a song that channels that overwhelming feeling into a sort of "primal scream therapy" or "soft anguished cry" musical creation playground, which takes me away, like the woman in the Calgon Bath Bubble commercial...

Better than getting a Super-Soaker squirt gun and hosing down all the bozos around me...!!!

LOL...

Answer 6

I escape reality by reading a good book or watching a meaningful movie. Something I can disappear into and become the main character.

Answer 7

There are scientific theories that reality may not be real at all. So the least you have to do to escape your so called reality is accept reality as it is because in all reality, it is not real.

Answer 8

I escape reality all the time. I just keep myself busy, busy, busy. Read, watch t.v., have my children over, anything to not let myself think of all my problems. Even when I go to sleep, and cannot I keep the radio on and listen to the talk shows. Or like now, I am busy answering questions on this site.

Answer 9

Much of our "reality" exist in our own mind/thinking. When we learn how to ignore thoughts...not feed them with follow up thoughts, we can escape. There may be a 'dribble' of our old patterns and misery, but it lessens a great deal. What you are changing is the habit of living in your head! Some people call this "enlightenment".

Answer 10

Imagine and Dream. Thus, creating an alternate reality in your own mind. Without the use of drugs, of course.

Answer 11

Why escape reality? I'm all for feeling life, pain and all. Feeling is living. Being numb or numbing oneself with external escapes (drugs, alcohol, pathological shopping, etc) is missing life.
I like it real, and I like it sober. I like all of it.