Mystery Babylon@human_dude Not to be, ahem, a killjoy -- but I've *had* to have a lot.
Those are the ones I use nowadays.
In the past, there have been certain songs I've "lived in", when there didn't seem to be space in the actual world. I've relied heavily on keeping a diary, too, though nowadays that's for pleasure and not a desperate desire to figure out WTF. I started in 1988 and I'm still going. I used to eat for comfort, too, but that's not a terribly great habit. And I would hide in books. I'd like to write stories that people could live in, while they endured IRL, that give them courage to keep pushing. Nowadays I mostly read just for fun, or to learn stuff. But there's a special place for the books that gave me a safe place, or re-wired my thinking.
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