Imagine that.......

Where do you go when you need to think, to regroup, to lick your wounds or just take a 'time out?"
Do you have a special space you go to or do you have a "space/place" in your mind? Or maybe you don't have a need for either? Imagination can be a wonderful device for time travel, exploration, creation and many other amazing positive feats, however, it can also be used to our detriment.
We hear a bump in the night and imagine all sorts of scary intruders, or someone is unusually late and we imagine accidents, or your heart behaves oddly and the imagination conjure up all sorts of dreadful diseases, etc. etc.  Then there is general anxiety, where the imagination runs crazy and everything becomes a cause of concern for us.
Statistics show that we are becoming more and more anxious about everything. We worry nonstop, well, not everybody, but a whole bunch of us. It is interesting that in a time when we have more leisure time than previous generations, we seem to use much of our time to worry rather than "play" more.
Maybe there is possibly a drawback with having more information, knowledge and insight in to the ways of the world? Perhaps knowing just how many things can go wrong, fail, or some such, rather than being of comfort induces more worrying in some of us?
However, the same brain that imagines all manners of horrors can also imagine the opposite. Trick is to find a way of using one's imagination in a good way, a way that makes life more manageable rather than a maze of potential dangers. (If your house is on fire, get out don't stay and imagine something else!!..)
We usually don't recognize immediately when our imagination runs riot with us, often we experience those thoughts as realistic, accurate assumptions, only to seem outrageous in hindsight.
And this applies both to imagining either failure or success, winning or losing, real or perceived threats. According to some researchers the brain does'nt actually know when we visualize something (imagine) or whether we are actually doing it,  the assumption is that we can affect a desired outcome/goal, by visualizing it as a done thing. Artists and other visionaries have been doing this for years and where would mankind be without imagination?

So, does the Carribean sound good to you? Maybe Alaska? The Amazone? If you can imagine it, your wonderful "time-travelling flying machine" called the brain, will take you there.