Fancy Pants (Daydreaming)

For as long as I can remember, daydreams have always been for me a major form of inner entertainment. Daydreaming or flights of fancy allow me to travel far away ... Away from where I am and what I am doing at that very moment. Where's the harm in that, it’s only for about ten or fifteen minutes that I escape. A window to look through is usually helpful -for my escapes from the mundane. But a windowless room can be more like a prison to me.  Sometimes, I'll even daydream while driving, yet I always stay safe because I can drive on autopilot. 

While flights of fancy are pleasant things, there are other types of inner thoughts known as ruminations, rehearsals, and rehashing that are gloomy and exhausting because they often involve either bad circumstances or conflicts with others.  Phew! I've got to cut those off before they make me feel miserable. Then there is a third category of inner thoughts known as fantasies. Fantasies  are like daydreams that are wearing  dark hooded cloaks! They can be about guilty things that should definitely be kept private, better yet treated by a therapist. But the best of all for me are daydreams. They have greatly enriched my life and I just can't imagine what boredom I would have felt without them.