>>7905182Before I felt stuff like this, another image which struck me was this album cover. Its' atmosphere was really otherworldly and captivating, but I wrote it off as the usual excessive aesthetization. Years later the music and lyrics blew me away, and (for better or worse) I felt and understood what the artist meant by not feeling he was quite a part of this world, but rather his imaginary realm. And everything on the album was sublimely produced to really express that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PmCb9OiFYQAll leads to various concepts in depth psychology (Jung's pleroma, provisional life, puer aeternus) and ones with less fun names (dissociation, schizoid dynamics, etc.), but in general, when you live out of your imagination, you live out of your potential. It can be invaluable for introspection and creativity - if you don't have the sauce for those, you're lost. But don't get lost in the sauce.
