[browningstreet]

Identify the difference between dreaming (plausible things) and fantasizing (implausible things). Make a decision about what your imagination is providing to you and that categorization process may relieve you of spending cycles on the thing that won’t happen and which largely functions as a way to keep yourself burdened.

It’s also okay to have a mental funeral for a long-standing dream which is now an unsatisfactory, or not necessary, fantasy. Some thoughts / dreams / imagined paths can become whispers in the mind. And gone.

[fuzzfactor]

Very good advice categorizing realistic fantasies, including this:

>have a mental funeral for a long-standing dream

Just don't quit dreaming altogether.