Is There A Place For Fantasy Storytelling In BDSM Play?
I'm a chronic daydreamer so yes, fantasy is integral to the way I think. The very best fantasies are the ones that are so vivid and intense, they actually feel real. There's nothing I love more than to tell stories that blend fantasy and reality, where the reader or listener can be so enthralled they can't distinguish where one world ends and the other begins. I realize not everybody is wired to experience fantasy on a physical level (left brain/right brain stuff) just as people aren't able to transubstantiate the physical back into fantasies. But it's well worth the effort to develop the skills to do both, if you're so inclined.
I suppose there's dozens of different techniques people who have the ability use to exercise their imaginations. For me, fantasies are generally first formed visually in the mind. Actually, it's not just fantasies I guess, but anything I think about. For example, I don't need to physically play a piano these days in order to practice anything I'm learning. I will spend some time early on at the piano, but much of it is done in my head. I tend not to visualize all the small details (the dots) but rather, the whole shape of the overall form of the piece, whatever it is. I can hear that in my head as well and I've been playing the instrument long enough that I have a physical sensory perception of how those sounds feel under my fingers.
I approach writing fantasy/fiction the same way. The visualization is of the larger picture. This includes many things such as the physical appearances of the characters [*], nuances of their speech and so on; the physical world in which I see them living, and a sense of the non-physical but very real element of time. To this end, I quite often write large slabs of a story in real time. Spoken fantasies tend to be brief scenarios usually centered around one central theme and as few characters as possible to bring it to life. Above all, I generally don't just tell stories but rather, I get myself into whatever headspace I've created for the character and let them tell the story through me.
[*] Though I might develop a complete mental picture of my characters, I usually avoid trying to impress my visualization onto the reader/listener. The idea is more to plant enough of a seed in the mind of the reader/listener that their own imagination can take over and allow them to be absorbed into the story rather than leave them on the outer as a passive observer.
Mr P (Mind-Fuck Expert)
I suppose there's dozens of different techniques people who have the ability use to exercise their imaginations. For me, fantasies are generally first formed visually in the mind. Actually, it's not just fantasies I guess, but anything I think about. For example, I don't need to physically play a piano these days in order to practice anything I'm learning. I will spend some time early on at the piano, but much of it is done in my head. I tend not to visualize all the small details (the dots) but rather, the whole shape of the overall form of the piece, whatever it is. I can hear that in my head as well and I've been playing the instrument long enough that I have a physical sensory perception of how those sounds feel under my fingers.
I approach writing fantasy/fiction the same way. The visualization is of the larger picture. This includes many things such as the physical appearances of the characters [*], nuances of their speech and so on; the physical world in which I see them living, and a sense of the non-physical but very real element of time. To this end, I quite often write large slabs of a story in real time. Spoken fantasies tend to be brief scenarios usually centered around one central theme and as few characters as possible to bring it to life. Above all, I generally don't just tell stories but rather, I get myself into whatever headspace I've created for the character and let them tell the story through me.
[*] Though I might develop a complete mental picture of my characters, I usually avoid trying to impress my visualization onto the reader/listener. The idea is more to plant enough of a seed in the mind of the reader/listener that their own imagination can take over and allow them to be absorbed into the story rather than leave them on the outer as a passive observer.
Mr P (Mind-Fuck Expert)
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