I think sometimes we take lucidity for granted. Aren't we all just a stroke, or head injury away from a life of utter dementia? Perhaps a permanent fantasy world wouldn't be so bad. All the pain of life's memories would fade away, and you would live within the walls of the sanity you create. Some people like to visit lands of altered consciousness, but living there forever may be another story. I suppose there are worse things than living out your days oblivious to the hardened, stringent reality we all have grown to know as fact. Maybe a worse scenario is to soberly dwell in this REAL world until your last breath...