We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay

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A note for Lesson no. 7, "Our Brains Can Create Reality," in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Some context from page 120‌‌‌ is:

"We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay."

The appendix adds:

The quote about fantasy worlds by author and cartoonist Lynda Barry....

Lynda Barry's quote comes from this book.[1]


References

  1. Barry, Lynda. 2008. What It Is, 40. Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly.