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When INTPfolk partake in escapism, what do you think about? Or is INTP escapism about not thinking?
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INTP Escapism
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peoplesuck
is escaping
i prefer the harsh reality in most cases. when it comes to nihilism you cant really function when rationalizing everything
Lot
Don't forget to bring a towel
What I think about:
Some time I speculate about a topic I've been studying. I've been learning a lot about cacti right now. So I've been thinking about the potency of the hybrids I have, and how I could spend the next 30 years revolutionizing sacred cacti. Then I start thinking about Alexander Shulgin, and fantasize about how I could study chemistry and start finding unknown drugs in cacti.
I also have a lot of power fantasies. Like my work place getting robbed and I somehow stop it. Stupid stuff. I'll have these grandiose monologues in my head. sometimes they are super epic and I get myself super pumped. Other times I realize that I'm just rambling to myself in my head. So I stop. I monologue so much.
Then the sexual fantasies. Those are usually best when I'm driving or super high and listening to music. They go all over the place. I'm even shocked with where I let some of them go. We'll just leave that there.
Lastly I can have really bad ruminations. To the point that if I'm by myself I can sucked into the fantasy that I can't even control where it goes. I'll relive things from my past, but an alternate version. One where it went bad, and each time it's repeated it gets worse. Or I'll imagine conversations. These are 50/50 on if they are bad. Some are really good and help me understand something better. The other times it's just negative. They'll go sour really quick and sometimes really hurtful things are said.
I would say it's escapism, but it can take up a large portion of the day. To the point that my day dreams often override my sense of sight and the fantasy plays, while I still manage to interact with the world in a normal way. Just on autopilot. I still know the difference, but I do find myself responding out loud or acting out my day dream. I hope this just means my imagination is active.
Some time I speculate about a topic I've been studying. I've been learning a lot about cacti right now. So I've been thinking about the potency of the hybrids I have, and how I could spend the next 30 years revolutionizing sacred cacti. Then I start thinking about Alexander Shulgin, and fantasize about how I could study chemistry and start finding unknown drugs in cacti.
I also have a lot of power fantasies. Like my work place getting robbed and I somehow stop it. Stupid stuff. I'll have these grandiose monologues in my head. sometimes they are super epic and I get myself super pumped. Other times I realize that I'm just rambling to myself in my head. So I stop. I monologue so much.
Then the sexual fantasies. Those are usually best when I'm driving or super high and listening to music. They go all over the place. I'm even shocked with where I let some of them go. We'll just leave that there.
Lastly I can have really bad ruminations. To the point that if I'm by myself I can sucked into the fantasy that I can't even control where it goes. I'll relive things from my past, but an alternate version. One where it went bad, and each time it's repeated it gets worse. Or I'll imagine conversations. These are 50/50 on if they are bad. Some are really good and help me understand something better. The other times it's just negative. They'll go sour really quick and sometimes really hurtful things are said.
I would say it's escapism, but it can take up a large portion of the day. To the point that my day dreams often override my sense of sight and the fantasy plays, while I still manage to interact with the world in a normal way. Just on autopilot. I still know the difference, but I do find myself responding out loud or acting out my day dream. I hope this just means my imagination is active.
marie
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I always live inside my imaginary world 
Pyropyro
Magos Biologis
I think so. Most of my games require lots of grinding. Grinding is action intensive yet not that intellectually intensive. Most people, even other gamers, think I'm too diligent with gaming.
Sinny91
Banned
Sums it up for me.
I like throwing myself into absorbing fiction and forgetting the world as we know it exists.
TheAdditional1
The Pharaohs Advocate
I'm a problem solver and a creative thinker, so escapism for me involves figuring out how the world can be a better place - more efficiently in various ways. The world can be so much closer to perfect if only such and such factors were in place, overlapped, or switched out. From materials to generation of energy to even simple changes in perspective. So efficiency is one form of my escapism.
I've considered that in more practical terms more recently. I'm in real estate development and have an architectural background, and may go to grad school for city planning/MRED. So I'm just daring myself to make the jump from mind to reality - in capable hands it's possible, so instead of thinking of things as larger than life, why not make life itself that large? To live the escapism - that's my goal.
But I'm also writing several novels (read: planning planning planning planning & planning out several novels) that venture into more surreal abstract concepts. Both delving into that and being able to create my own world ("playing god" almost) is another very comforting form of it.
Favorite quote: "It's all in the state of mind."
I've considered that in more practical terms more recently. I'm in real estate development and have an architectural background, and may go to grad school for city planning/MRED. So I'm just daring myself to make the jump from mind to reality - in capable hands it's possible, so instead of thinking of things as larger than life, why not make life itself that large? To live the escapism - that's my goal.
But I'm also writing several novels (read: planning planning planning planning & planning out several novels) that venture into more surreal abstract concepts. Both delving into that and being able to create my own world ("playing god" almost) is another very comforting form of it.
Favorite quote: "It's all in the state of mind."
Xenophanes
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It depends on the day and my mood. Often, I'll use other people's minds as my sanctuary, and I'll read or listen to music or the like - it's like I'm handing the controls over to somebody else for a time, and I can let go of a little responsibility.
Other times, I'll make up my own idealised fantasy worlds or just focus on not thinking.