Childish Fantasies

[ursulav]

When I was quite young-about seven or eight, say-my mother would take me to church, or as I knew it, The Most Boring Two Hours That Anyone Has Ever Experienced Ever In The History Of The Universe With Extra Boring Sauce.

Needless to say, I was not a fan.

It’d be church for an hour and then Sunday school. Mostly what I gleaned from all this was that

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[blythe025]

Love you're bizarre childhood. :)

[unhappytriad]

How Jungian is that? What a great image.

Incidentally, if you have not read Gaiman and Pratchett's Good Omens, I really really really think you'd like it.

[herefox]

I never had to go to church regularly so I never had such fantasies. Though I did often get the giggles on the sporadic christmas mass because invariably there would be a typo somewhere on the program to the effect of "All angels sin on high" or something.

I probably would have imagined something similar to what you did though. Or using my magic/telekinetic powers to interrupt the dullness.

"And then, when Katie gritted her teeth and closed her eyes and used the final ounce of power left within her, she swooshed the wind across Mrs. G so that it blew her hair off."-The girl with the silver eyes by Willo Davis Roberts

Totally would have been me ;-)

[bladespark]

Ooooooooooh yeah. All my childhood fantasies revolved around either getting a unicorn for a friend, or getting telekinesis (I read a book about a character who had it when I was pretty young, it and impressed me as hugely useful.) With occasional variations involving riding dinosaurs or being able to travel interdimensionally when I got older.

[kudilu]

OMG I don't think I've ever encountered anyone else that remembers reading that book! I loved it when I was a kid (I had 2 different copies because I got the first one used and it fell apart on me).

[azurelunatic]

It was one of my favorites too. It took such a long time to get my own copy, not the library's copy.

I think that one held the place in my heart that Ender's Game seems to hold for so many of my friends.

[jaxomsride]

I'm not sure now to be relieved that my parents never subjected me to such horrors or envious of the epic day dream opportunity I clearly missed out on.

I don't tend to have recurring daydreams, even when I was a child. I do remember being incredibly annoyed at my family for something ( I forget what) and had a great time watching them get all exterminated by Daleks my imagination conjured up. I was younger than 6 at the time and they hadn't conquered climbing stairs, so I was safe and sound on the shed roof.

[randombler]

Ooh, you push so many buttons

[talyxsaunt]

I had the Alice books read to me as a child.

When I read them myself, I was astonished at how much the logic of the plot was like a dream.

[lylassandra]

The absolute only thing I liked about the Burton movie was the scene where Alice ends up naked in front of the Queen. The response "I outgrew them"-- like, of course you wander around naked if you outgrow your clothes, who doesn't?-- struck me as so perfectly Wonderland. No adult sense at all, only kid logic.

[aurora77]

The movie felt too cohesive and less dreamlike. I think that's part of my problem with it.

I liked a few things about it, and one of them was a subtle costume design thing. At the beginning, her dress doesn't quite fit her right. A little loose here, a little small there. Just not quite right. But at the end, it fits her like a glove. A nice touch. If I wasn't so interested in costumes and hadn't been to a costume exhibit for the movie and seen one of those dresses and therefore been paying close attention to see if that was the same dress I saw before, I might not have noticed it.