A Person In This Online Group Was Curious To Know What Others Do To Escape Reality, Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers

Did this a year ago (aged 51). Best thing I ever did!

I've been living this for almost a year now in some respect. Rural, limited neighbors that I can't really see, wildlife, fostering cats, taking a pottery class. No drama, no overbearing family, and the traffic is a dream

Yes to this.

I'm doing this. Seriously. I'm selling all my stuff and buying a tiny house in the woods

I'm drawing floorplans for rural cottages, plan what to grow in the gardens and what animals to keep, even though I know I will never do it in reality. Most important is that I don't want to see or hear the neighbours.

I used to do this over quarantine with our foster dog! We were lost in a great desert wilderness of deep canyons and wide plains. We journeyed around in search of food and water. Miss you Davis, my adventure pal <3

Aww..that's so sweet.

Hugs!

Sleep. My most fave thing to do.

I feel you mye friend. Better times WILL come 💐♥️🎵

Ok but legitimately, dreams are super freeing for me. I have a really overactive imagination so that makes them better

This is going in the pocket. Logged away for later use.

Probably gets you put on a list as well.

I love gardening, but my neoghbours might watch, i do have anxietety (Sorry if misspelled), so i dont do that much.. i would love to, and i hope it still works for you ♥️

I’ll never forget the feeling I got when I picked the vegetables I grew in my garden for the very first time. If you have the time and the space, I highly recommend it. It was the most rewarding experience I ever had.

My plants and my dogs are what keep me going sometimes.

Yes to this.

Reading fiction (and especially young adult for some reason) is the only thing that helps me find my center.

Pocket Frogs allows me to channel my completionist desires into an adorable game, and frogs are my totem.

I did that in my youth on a daily basis to escape reality and my loneliness. Today i think it was better for me to learn some other strategies because, for me, it was beautiful and toxic at the same time.

I'm a maladaptive daydreamer. Not even a minute goes by after I wake up and it starts. Then I don't stop for the rest of the day, with the exception of minutes.

Medium labor lol

I like to go for a short walk in dicey weather - so if its particularly windy, very cold or looks a bit stormy (I live on a hill so there's often opportunity for this lol). There's just something about winning against the elements, even for 10 minutes that just primal, you feel like you've become Zeus and also done about an hours worth of exercise inatead of nipping to the shop lol

This is honestly very interesting. I would think you'd have to pick your dog carefully, depending on what kind of escape you wanted. A Border Collie, so energetic and intelligent, could exhaust you if you needed to sleep maybe - herding all those sheep! As a Bloodhound you could go on a searching adventure, or beautiful red Irish Setter, or Labrador could walk the green hills for hours.

I've often wondered what it would be like to be cat or dog....be fed at regular intervals, sleep all day, no responsibility, etc..would be nice. Very relaxing!! No hate, just love. Do what works for you! ❤

That's absolutely cool, if it relaxes your mind.

Dogs live in the moment, so I'm told, so it makes a lot of sense to relax, enjoy a moment.

no hate. smart idea! and if it works for you...then it works!

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You can pray to whomever or whatever you want. It doesn’t necessarily mean to God. Personally I talk to nature/the universe when I feel the need to ‘pray’, it helps just to get it off your chest.

Oh, yes.

I have bagpipes

I do this as well, except i play bass or guitar

Hang in there! Hope it helped!

Nowadays you cannot say I don’t know how to cook, there’s so many recipes and how to on YouTube, cooking is an art