Dream vs. Fantasy

We are dreamers because it is free to dream. Why not dream? Through the many dreams from different people came about the telephone, the computer, the iphone, the disneyland, and so on. None of the successes of today would have happened if no one had dreamed in the past.

We have dreamed of things when we were young and it resulted to what we have achieved today.

And yet here comes another word which is fantasy that many of us often mistake for a dream. Fantasy is defined in the dictionary as

the forming of mental images, especially wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing (dictionary.com).

In simple terms it is similar in a dream that it has not happened yet but it is unrealistic and is only based on imagination.

Influenced by the media and literature we have one way or another given in to fantasy. Anne of Green Gables says, "...where there's lots of room for imagination." Why, if not for imagination writers wouldn't have written very good stories and produced very good movies. So maybe the next question would be why not fantasize?

The verse from 1 Corinthians 10:23 always reminds me,
"Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything." -NIV

So maybe then you should ask yourself "what are the benefits of a dream?" Then, go to the question, "What are the benefits of fantasy?" Go ahead and name them. I have said the results in the earlier paragraphs. Now let's go to the second section of the verse, "Everything is permissible for me--but I will not be mastered by anything." Take note, "I WILL NOT BE MASTERED BY ANYTHING". 

Go ahead dream but make sure you act out your  beneficial dream..Go ahead fantasize if you want to but make sure it doesn't become something that occupies too much of your time that you no longer have time to live the day that is to live REALITY. 

Hey, there are great things ahead of you such as living out your dream. Be careful of your fantasies that you might not be succeeding in living your dream because you are ENCHANTED by your fantasies. Anyway, mostly your fantasies are centered on romance or adventures found in books or movies made outside the real world.

I say it's better to face the REAL adventures than just lie down and think...and think...and think...then die.