What is the differance between a...

[T.H. Oughts]

dream and a fantasy????

If we never reach for our dreams they may never be realised. So that dream is really only a fantasy if we never try reaching for it.

Is a fantasy something that turns us on but we know in RL it would not really appeal, just the thought of it does.

Your thoughts?????

 

[Guru]

 

[T.H. Oughts]

Are fantasies only sexual things????

 

[Guru]

 

[Soblue]

I sort of agree, I agree that dreams are workable goals, but fantasies are things you wish would happen, but probably won't. Fantasies don't have to be sexual, it could be about winning the lottery or something similar.

 

[kotori]

so by buying a lottery ticket i'm working towards making my dream a reality, and it's no longer fantasy?

 

[Soblue]

Lol! Yeah you keep working toward that goal, it'll pay off one day!

Speaking of lottery tickets, here I go on a tangent, but anyway, I never used to buy the damn things, maybe once in a blue moon or so. Then I start this job, and everyone in my department is in the lottery pool. So now I am forced into buying them twice a week, or else I'll look anti social

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

Fantacy I'd say is something we want but don't think we will ever acheive.

Dream is something we wish for without realiseing it fully.

 

[riff]

I always thought that dreams happen when I sleep and fantasy when I am awake.

But in common usage, they are fairly interchangable.

Sometimes we speak of our hopes as dreams and fantasies.

Sometimes both words get bad raps.

Most of us live in a dreamworld- a fantasyland. Well, at least I do. Because everything in my head isn't real. It's just my perception.

Except for like when one of my kittens claw me. That's real. I got the scars to prove it.

 

[Guest]

Riff is close, but...

I still haven't heard what I thought was obvious to me.

A dream (or nightmare) is something you have little control over at the subconscious (unconscious) level.

A fantasy, for me, is a waking, overt, reverie consciously developed in the mind's eye.

For me, the two are very, very different.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

So Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech should have been called "I Have a Fantasy"?

 

[Guest]

So Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech should have been called "I Have a Fantasy"?

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No, in fact,

I believed MLK when he said HE that dream. He described a DREAM, not a fantasy.

And let's be clear, it was NOT fantasy during his waking hours to rise against injustice of an oppressed people.

Your comment Hamletmaschine, generalizes. Read my post, again. Those are my impressions.

'Nuff said. I'm off for my jog.

Everyone have a good one.