More thoughts

The first responses to my idea showed me that there are many wonderful people who are creating their own worlds and that I should try to give some further explanations on my concept.

So, what am I really doing?

I guess I am not really CREATING a new world. Lhocmar is less a creation, but rather an interpretation.

As I already stated, Lhocmar is reality, real nature, but non-existing. The only way to improve reality and the beauty of nature is by its non-existence.

(And non-existence includes further positive aspects like the already mentioned “having control” and unreal/virtual worlds usually have the advantage of being less complicated).

Probably, this is a little bit hard to comprehend… or just weird…

I’ll try to illustrate the main idea with some examples:

Let’s imagine a wonderful sunny day, we are lying in the grass, relaxing and enjoying life – just beautiful to be in harmony with nature. The reality would be a bit different – there, lying in the grass also includes many annoying insects we have to cope with; we could sweat, sunburn or suffer from hay fever etc.

And the second example can be summarised with the term “nostalgia”. Our memory has the power to idealise past reality.

(I know, there is a difference between idealisation and non-existence/imagination, but concerning the capacity of abstraction I consider them being rather similar).

However, I must admit that there is one situation I am not sure of being able to integrate in this (more or less sophisticated) philosophical concept of Lhocmar: standing on the top of a mountain.

Of course, in the virtual world the weather and view would always be perfect, the muscles and knees would not ache from climbing up, but I am afraid that the overwhelming feeling on the peak is completely independent from such “failures”.

 (It seems impossible to exceed this by its "non-existence")

Perhaps, one possible explanation for this difficulty could be that being on the peak of a mountain feels already like being beyond reality. Daily business, duties, worries etc. seem so minor and far away…

But this is not a very satisfying answer. I am aware that this IS quite a personal matter (people who aren’t into hiking, won’t agree with this). Therefore Lhocmar would become an extremely relative world, because my peak of the mountain could be every different situation for others.

We will see if a solution can be found…

I have noticed that it won’t be possible to create the world first and afterwards tell a story. I have the tendency of being a bit overly intellectual and getting stuck in too much thinking. A too theoretical world would become boring very easily; therefore I will try to create by telling the story.

(So, nothing can exist without a purpose, not even a non-existing world? ;-) )

This is really an exciting adventure for me. It is rather easy to play around with thoughts or to ponder over different ideas from time to time, but the attempt to express them clearly and to put a concrete structure in them is quite a challenge!

I would like to thank everyone for the first reactions! They are a great help and enormous motivation!

Cheers!