# How often do you playout improbable/fantastical scenerios in your head? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-playout-improbable-fantastical-scenerios-in-your-head/320861 "2005-09-09T19:04:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-playout-improbable-fantastical-scenerios-in-your-head/320861/21 "2005-09-10T00:00:23Z")
You mean there’s a _real_ world too? :eek: Every time I’m left without anything specific to do (and sometimes when I’m busy but don’t want to be) my mind wanders off to the strangest places. Oh, and: > [@pinkfreud](#): > > Most of my sexual fantasies are improbable. Some of them involve body parts that I don’t even have. You know, you can buy these little… well… never mind, I’m sure you’ll figure it out for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-playout-improbable-fantastical-scenerios-in-your-head/320861/22 "2005-09-10T00:02:23Z")
I much, much prefer staying in my imagination to reality. This world y’all got here is _boring_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-playout-improbable-fantastical-scenerios-in-your-head/320861/23 "2005-09-10T03:37:05Z")
What’s really fun is group fantasy situations. I was walking around the city with some friends the other day and a group of people dressed in karate uniforms carrying various weapons passed us by. We spent most of the rest of the day talking about the various ways a brawl could go if we suddenly decided to jump these people. We discussed the odds versus a frontal assault versus a sneak attack, how much their superior numbers and skills gave them better odds at victory, what constituted a victory, how the environment of the battle would affect its outcome, etc. Then we were discussing more fantastical situations, like if we had the power to slow down time while they didn’t, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-playout-improbable-fantastical-scenerios-in-your-head/320861/24 "2005-09-10T06:01:36Z")
Does anybody have their fantasies turn on them? Do you imagine disasters, rejections, or humiliations? Anyone? I don’t. Ummm… I have this friend. Yeah, a friend. Ohh look! Shiny! ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-playout-improbable-fantastical-scenerios-in-your-head/320861/25 "2005-09-10T06:54:27Z")
All the time. Although lately they’ve been a in somewhat closed loop involving me and my boyfriend. Variably they go from really probable, ie, what we’ll do once he gets to California next week, to the somewhat if not improbable, at least a ways off, like our wedding, to the not in this lifetime in this world, but you know… And I know nothing of this disasters or rejections of which you speak. My pessimistic mind couldn’t concieve of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-playout-improbable-fantastical-scenerios-in-your-head/320861.md?page=1)