Fixations about imaginary worlds

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As a child I gathered all superheroes I knew and imagined they lived in the same world, the same city, the same FAMILY. And I made a lot of let's call it mental fan fic; I would invent whole stories about villains, romance and world destruction. I don't remember when I stopped doing it. But I used to spend hours imagining the full details of those stories. I even had a special spot at my backyard where I would pace while I devised the plot.

Oh, those times.

Worlds? You people are novices. I have characters roaming around three galaxies.

The Xanthron universe is hard to describe. Its a little bit from everything, but not much from anything in particular. The biggest contributer is still me, though.

"The Xanthron universe is hard to describe"

- please try, sounds interesting;

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I make up my own world for a new novel series or television series and then get fixated on it.

yes. particularly post-apocalyptic and steampunk.

Post-apocalyptic movies and games are a particular passion of mine. Fallout (PC games) and Mad Max (2nd movies) are my favourites.

[/quote]The first two are my favourite ever books. I didn't like Titus Alone much. Gormenghast is an amazing place.[/quote]

Same here - I didn't finish Titus Alone, though I'll give it another go. I'm not sure whether it's the lack of the something like Gormenghast environment that it lacks, or simply that Peake was very ill when he was writing it. Apprently it wasn't reallyfinished when he died, and needed a lot of editing.

My fantasy world is the only reason I survived school, whenever I was having a bad day I would just retreat into my own world. It is always centered around my current obsession.
When I was younger it was based on the Harry Potter books. Now it is based on my favouite TV programs Bones and Boston Legal. I once had a teaching assistant tell me I needed to talk to a shrink after he asked about my fantasy world, because he thinks it's not healthy and that I can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

When i was a little kid (till my 12th i think it was) i had some purple human like creature in my head always challenging me to do stuff and i always had to bet with my life to it and every time i did it i got some sort of points and eventualy a gold book or something and then a double golden book and eventualy a cristal golden book wich all allows me to oversee losing bets the higher the book the more i could try or something realy confusing it went to simple things like saying a word till crowling on the floor till a sertent point till jumping off a high thing acctualy funny now i think off it lol :p

I used to get caught up in others' fictional universes, most notably Star Trek, Larry Niven's Known Space, and James White's Sector General stories. Then, in college, I was introduced to Role-Playing Games...

Aathe is the world for my D&D games. I've constructed its history, both legend and the events underlying the legend (for instance, the war that tore the old world apart twenty thousand years ago and introduced magic into things also left the people with a belief in, and fear of, the Tenth God, Technos the Uncaring, whose machines destroy reality).

I've also built a history for my Champions superhero universe, starting with the first costumed adventurer from the 1920s, the Black Cat ("he's bad luck for the bad guys"). Today it includes the UN's Blue Star Squadron (which originated as an Allied multinational force in WWII, against the Nazi Ubermenschen), the Russian Red Star Squadron, the Chinese People's Heroes, the international independent Terran Defense Force, and Black Ops, the secretive enforcement arm of the US government's Bureau of Transhuman Affairs, as well as a number of independent groups and individuals...

I've had several imaginary worlds in my head, the present one being the most involved and vivid. At a certain point, my parents, teachers and psychiatrist thought I was dissociating from reality. I knew the difference between my fantasy and what they defined as "reality," I just preferred the former, and still do. It was my world, the people in it liked me unconditionally, and I could change or make better anything I wanted to, when I wanted to, rather than being helpless, and I couldn't imagine anything bad about that. People still find it weird that I, as they see it, talk about characters like they were real people.... I guess things like saying "He likes this" or "She does that in her spare time" instead of adding in a "would" somewhere set people off for whatever reason. Since a few years ago, I rarely tell people details about my world or the people in it anymore. It's only me and a couple of people who have helped create it that I talk to about it.

I've gone through numerous obsessions with other people's works - the earliest were Disney movies, but they were all short-lived. Sonic the Hedgehog, Sailor Moon, Animorphs, Harry Potter, South Park, Invader Zim and Sgt. Frog have been some of the major ones, and there have been tons of minor ones along the way. All of it, anything that sticks with me, gets incorporated somehow into the big world in my head.

I have a network of imaginary cities. The SimCity games inspired them.

I find myself in Middle Earth all the time. I usually find myself in the middle of the conflict, wondering what I could possibly do to help. (Develop super powers! yeah!) I also find myself in pretty much every serious fantasy world I read about for at least a short while, especially movie worlds, but also Darkover, Pern, Valdemar (back when I was reading those books). I've never been into role playing worlds, though, because of the interaction needed for that sort of thing. I have found myself in periods of conflict in the historical past, too, though (e.g. WWI), chatting with people from back then, again about what possible use I could be. I find myself stuck in the past an awful lot . . .

I find it good as a form of guided meditation. Plus it got me thinking I should learn to write novels. What's that Beatles' song? "I need a job and I want to be a paper back writer. Paper back writer." Still working on that one, though.

In my preteens – early teens I used to be fascinated with the world of Mario too - the forgotten fact from my past I elicited from my memory some time ago after accidentally I found this on the net: http://nintendo8.com/game/629/super_mario_brothers/ God, I could play this for hours back then.

When I’m speaking about having fixations about worlds that exist only in movies/comic books/novels/games I’d like to make a distinction between those I simply really, really like (like Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” or the “Left Behind” series worlds) and those on the basis of which I create my fantasy worlds in my head imagining I live in there.