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Fantasy thinking (n.) lets thoughts float, sink or rise according to their specific gravity — effortless, image piling on image, arranging things not as they are but as one would like them.
Fantasy thinking (n.) or dream-thinking is a phylogenetically older mode of thought: dreams never say "I am doing wrong" abstractly, but always in parable — like primitive speech, ancient literature, and Plato.
Fantasy thinking (n.) was branded autistic and infantile only because doctors were the first to look at it — a perfectly normal process brought dangerously close to the pathological.