Letting Fantasy Guide You

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The majority of us may have been raised to think of fantasies as somewhat separate from ourselves: streaming erotic narratives that we privately hoard, often feeling shame about our less civilized impulses. Fantasies imaginatively engage our bodies in sensation, allowing us to activate pleasure and experiences of meaning beneath our interactions. The ways in which we imagine what and how we do sexually can offer us valuable insights about life-force and our relationship to it, how we embody our experiences or manage our existential pains.

Fantasy shores up our broken relationships to personal power, where we have lost it and where we long to reconnect. Thus, transgression lies at the heart of our erotic imaginations, because in the amoral realm of thoughts and images, we may eat, fuck, kill, and shit without the imposition of our carefully sculpted personalities--reactions against the pain that we have accumulated while on the planet. In the shadows of fantasies, our pain and the solutions to it are hiding in plain sight.

Though our sexual fantasies arise in symbolic, erotic imagery, they are so much more than sex; they contain key information, maps that offer us pathways for growth into more whole versions of ourselves. If we can momentarily suspend the dilemma of whether or not to act out our fantasies, we can cultivate a personal process with these revelations from our subconscious natures.