DAYDREAMING

Continuing our discussion of “dreams” from the previous entry, it can be argued that “daydreaming” has to be something entirely different from “dreaming,” but at least they have a connection through the use of the same word “dream.” Generally speaking, “daydreaming” is a rather vulgar word meaning “fantasizing,” in the sense of creating an alternative” reality,” to escape from the unsatisfactory condition of one’s everyday existence.

It is already becoming clear from this that “daydreaming” is a poor man’s version of artistic creativity, or, conversely, that artistic creativity is a glorified form of “daydreaming.” Apparently, the difference between these two is merely a matter of talent, imagination, and self-channeling motivation. Consequently, its range is from the chasm of personal pathetic escapism to the heavenly heights of fantasizing in the service of humanity. Yet the borderline between these two so ostensibly disparate activities is astonishingly thin…