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What are some of your childhood fantasies (keep it clean, please, thanks so much!)
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i have no recollection of this but my mother said she found me sitting at the piano randomly hitting notes and writing on paper with a pencil...I was about 3 years old at the time. When she asked me what I was doing, I told her "writing music". I do remember sitting in my room listening to Beatle records and imagining myself in the room with them while they were recording the songs...saying things like "more bass, Paul"...and such. I was maybe 6 at the time.
And now I'm a writer-producer....that's just weird.
And now I'm a writer-producer....that's just weird.
I always wanted to travel in space, either as an astronaut with NASA or privately.
Also, I wanted to be James Bond.
I still daydream about living in another century. Such as in Ancient Greece, the Minoans of Crete, Rome (under Augustus or during the Republic), Ancient Egypt possible, etc.
Other times when I am listening to Sleater-Kinney, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Unwound, etc I wish that I was 14 or 16 and living in Olympia, WA.
Also, I wanted to be James Bond.
I still daydream about living in another century. Such as in Ancient Greece, the Minoans of Crete, Rome (under Augustus or during the Republic), Ancient Egypt possible, etc.
Other times when I am listening to Sleater-Kinney, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Unwound, etc I wish that I was 14 or 16 and living in Olympia, WA.
I wanted to be a scientist.
and "dissect stuff" (my exact words)
I never wanted to do normal "little girl" things like ballerina or singer.
I was like SO set on being a scientist, you have no idea. I used to just READ encyclopedias.
I was nuts.
Also, I really, REALLY, wanted to be on Jerry Springer.
I just wanted to SO BADLY!
I imagined all the free stuff and money I would get from being on it.
Also, I wanted to fill my tub with pudding and swim in it.
Man, I was a dumb little kid.
and "dissect stuff" (my exact words)
I never wanted to do normal "little girl" things like ballerina or singer.
I was like SO set on being a scientist, you have no idea. I used to just READ encyclopedias.
I was nuts.
Also, I really, REALLY, wanted to be on Jerry Springer.
I just wanted to SO BADLY!
I imagined all the free stuff and money I would get from being on it.
Also, I wanted to fill my tub with pudding and swim in it.
Man, I was a dumb little kid.
katie ta achoo said:
Heh
I always wanted to be able to breathe underwater, that would be so cool
/sends KT 300 coupons for Jello Instant
// Sale at Walmart, but Butterscotch only
Lacero said:
i always wish everyone everywhere would just disappear for a like a week, and i could go around and mess around with anything i wanted. Drive sportscars, burn stuff down, eat at the grocery store, smash stuff. etc.
clayj said:
i guess most of us find out that our childhood fantasies have roadblocks, but at least your fantasy was and is within reach
when i was a small kid, i wanted to be a world war II fighter pilot, like the ones i saw on tv in the 1960s, but then i found out in time that world war II was over and fighter pilots now flew uninteresting jets and the glamorous prop plane days were over
but as a teenager, i wanted to be in a rock band and be famous at it...at least that wasn't impossible, but still very, very improbable...so in the years that i should have been working on making it, i spent in college, or working regular non musician jobs for a paycheck
...so after college and some years in the working world, i knew i was too old but i still stubbornly formed some rock bands and played out at clubs and parties for a few years and lived out part of a fantasy by being in a rock band, practicing, gigging, and recording music...and by the time i quit the music thing, i was newly married and in my mid-30s and i had new priorities, so i was fine with just having been in a local band being limited to playing in my geographic area, as were the other members who had families or jobs that kept them around town
it would have been nice, looking back, to have tried the rock band thing before college and career and embark on some sort of long distance tour (the only thing i never did as a musician) to get it all out of my system...i could have always done college and career after the music career since i know a man who tried to make it in music, failed, and then went back to college and got a career...and his college studies weren't forever destroyed by some hard living, hedonistic rock lifestyle a decade long...he just didn't make it as a star in music so he used his 30s to start college study and eventually get a phd in ten years
of the four members of the band i was in the longest, only one really wanted to quit the cushy job and security and hit the road for months playing any gig that came along from coast to coast...and to this day, even though he is a middle aged man, he still feels a sense of having been cheated not having gone for it, as a musician, in a bigger way but i admire his drive to continue music today as enthusiastically as a teenager with a rock and roll fantasy
and who knows, he could still make it and get the last laugh
My fantasy was being able to freeze time, so I could do more stuff in a day than the average mere mortal.obeygiant said:
This was my number one fantasy during high school.
Reading people's minds and controlling traffic lights came in second and third.
Here's to the Crazy Ones ![]()
Take it from someone who knows... reading other people's minds is a bit overrated, except when I call them up and they invariably go "I was just about to call you!" and I go "I know." (Certain people here can vouch for me doing this.)Lacero said:
But being able to control traffic lights... I love being able to do that. (Being absolutely serious here.)
clayj said:I think a lot of us just think you're weird anyway.
My childhood fantasy: Growing up to become a world-renowned architect whose modern buildings would dot the landscape.
When that fantasy ended: After taking 4 years of drafting in high school and drawing countless buildings before that, finding out that you can't get into a design school UNLESS you can draw things freehand. I cannot draw a tree, or a person's face, or anything else... but give me a straightedge, a scale, and a compass and I can draw almost anything.
Is that in the US? That's a pretty daft rule for admittance. I'm about to become an architect in a few months (*knocks wood*) but to be honoust, I don't touch a pen unless it's needed (for presenting the plan). Almost everything besides sketching is done on the computer. And even with the sketching I cheat (using volume renderings as an underlayer) They don't even teach the firstyears to draw straight lines anymore IIRC.
If there is one thing you need to master to be admitted to the master course (no pun intended) it is designing consiously. That is: you know why you designed it the way you did and you are able to communicate that thought in words and images.
btw: I never had the fantasy to become an architect. I always wanted to be an "engineer" and design airplanes or cars or other technological objects. Fortunately for me you get the engineer title together with that of architect although it is a bit daft
If i were young in this day and age i would most likely want to design computers (like Jonathan Ive) or design microelectronics. Preferably both
If i were young in this day and age i would most likely want to design computers (like Jonathan Ive) or design microelectronics. Preferably both