Has MLP Caused You To Live In A Fantasy World?

[GXPBlast 597]

I love MLP alot (mostly fan made work) and sometimes when reading tons of fanfics, looking up artwork, and watching videos can cause me to sometimes believe the real world is actually the fantasy world.

Luckily I dont have this overtake my life and I can break out of the trance. As much as I wish life was alot like MLP in which war and hate was not relevant in our world, I know its not going to happen.

I have not only done this with MLP and have had other shows impact my life to a point in which I sometimes reject the real world as whats really fantasy.

But as I said I dont let this overcome my life and usually break out of it. This trance usually happens when I am at home alone or have been on school break for awhile and I have time to delve myself into fanfictions, videos and other work

Anyone else have done this before or are nearly in a constant state of rejection of our world and sometimes you feel like your in a dream while you imagination runs wild so much that you feel that the MLP world is what is real?
 

Edited March 20, 2014 by FurzVette

[Scootalove 10,689]

I've had this done before, where I did wish that the MLP world was real but when I'm dreaming it is like I'm actually in their world.

[ninjamon102938 222]

Not for me, its just a cartoon with an awesome fan base and that's good enough for me

[Castle Bleck 19,351]

Posers…

I've been that way all my life.

Edited March 15, 2022 by Even Evil Has Standards

[Tetris 115]

XD sadly if I have to escape I think about me as a pony, what would I look like, whats my cutie mark etc.  A lot to think about

[Ribbonfree 2,383]

I'm prone to escapism naturally, so I've done it with MLP. But I'm used to splitting my mental energy between what I'd like the world to be like and what it is like, so all my daydreaming doesn't negatively affect me... In theory.

[Dargent 80]

I've always lived in a self created fantasy world, so large I could write novels about it, but MLP has really helped ground me to reality.

[Henny Penny Benny 936]

I do often catch myself wishing that I lived in Equestria. Which is the main issue I have with a lot of fiction in general: it's purposely written to create a world that seems preferable in some way to reality. Otherwise people wouldn't read/watch it. But the problem with that is that, at least for me, the more fiction I take in, the less content I am with reality and the more distant I want to become from it. Which is just stupid and unhealthy.

 

I'm sure it doesn't go that way for everyone, but it often does for me. Which is why I often have to reign in my enthusiasm for Ponies.

[Technicolor_Pony 34]

Yeah. I actually like to blur the lines of my imagination and reality.

[Hypn0ticD 1,213]

I do this with nearly everything I'm interested in, and on a daily basis, as it's the only way I get through the day, on most days!

 

Right now, this is especially true with my RP!

[BayoUni2847 528]

Nah, I never drift into a daydream where Equestria existed.

[Torrent505 370]

MLP didn't cause me to go into a fantasy land... No, no, no I've done that for along time I think since I first discovered I had an imagination... MLP is just on of the more pleasant fantasy worlds in my head, others involve: Star Wars, Warhammer 40k, all types of fantasy settings and sci fi settings, and cartoons galore. Guess I'm just built that way

[Khaoios 1,970]

Sometimes........then again, my mind has somewhat drifted into a fantasy, but in my sleep or if im bored at work,

[Shanks 10,816]

I engage in a bit of escapism every now and then but never so much to where I can't tell truth from fiction. I am still grounded in the real world even though cartoon ponies may occupy more of my thoughts than I ever thought they would.

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QeexCRNGQq0

 

Huh what? Nah man, I don't live in no fantasy world.......

[MadScienceMC 14]

 I find myself drifting into the fantasy world of MLP and other things every now and again. A bit of escapism is good every once and a while.

[TheChosenPony 279]

Eh, no not really, Not at all actually, I do have some thoughts where I wish this world could be less cruel, but overall- MLP has helped me see beauty in life

[man dude man 555]

Some of us are constant in our hopes and efforts to create and better a physical world shaped around the core principles of MLP, but we are very aware that our world is a much darker, sinister place. This is a world where life long bonds are broken and strong wills cease to exist as it is merely a game of hiearchy amongst animals whom believe themselves to be superior to all life and even yet amongst eachother. It's a game of economic cut throat and who ever has more paper with a dead mans face on it is considered  to be in a higher "position of class". It's a factitious world with an invisible ranking system and the best of people are always taken advantage of, and left to wither alone when they are all used up. It's classless and sad in my honest opinion and wanting to reflect a postive, and helpful image to this corrupt world is a battle I see worth fighting. We lose even if we win, because the fight is to stop fighting to begin with. You just have to follow your heart, and when it points to what is morally correct I just never question it.

[InspiredBrony 31]

Oh, all the time! It usually only works if my eyes are closed, but veeeery rarely I get what I like to call, "Pony Vision". Whenever this happens, everyone around me turns into a pony for a short amount of time. Sometimes it's a canonical pony and sometimes my mind makes a custom pony. Either way, it's awesome!

[Sekhayet 253]

Yeah, no. What it does do is provide such an extreme contrast between real life and canon Equestria that I'm motivated to make our world better. We will eventually win.

[TheUnionJake 41]

Can't say I've ever blurred the lines between Equestria and real life, but I'll see some people on here who are really living in an MLP fantasy world. I mean, it's okay to role play and have an OC and say "everypony" or "somepony", etc. But when your profile is based from a pony from the shows' liking and you pretend to be that pony and you talk and act like that pony. That's a little freaky.

[Fluttershyfan94 5,742]

It did for a few days, I tend to fantasize a bit. But it hasn't really caused me to live in a fantasy world. I don't really care much about the real world though.

[ukxRainbowdash 165]

I actually have a funny story about this, after I finished the second series of fairy tail I felt like I was a wizard for a few hours into the school day, I was a little bit bullied on that particular day and from what I can remember I flaild my arms into the air trying to summon fire to attack the bully.

That's when I realised I had thought I was a Mage all day, and that's when I got worried about my morals knowing I tried to scorch my enemy. :|

[Tigerpop198 696]

When you think about it though, can't anything feel like a fantasy world, it is your own thoughts that make it exist, so is it really existing, or am I looking too deep into this.

[Adorkable 2,737]

When I'm watching the show, I try to tune myself in to where I feel like I'm in there with them. ^^"

 

Does that count? ^^"