The English poet, John Keats, explored this relationship when he asked: “Do we retreat from the reality of the outer world into ourselves at times, or do we retreat from the pressures of the outside world into the reality of our inner selves?” (Philipp, 2001a). In taking this question further, the doctor-poet, Dannie Abse, musing on it in 1993, noted that: “imaginative daydreaming is an escape from the precipitous pessimism of living or dealing with problems and the sphere of sorrows, and it is used to restore balance” (.). Nevertheless, whichever way we look at it, as the English.
