What's your happy place?

[Sean Hollyman]

What's your happy place? Close your eyes, try to imagine ultimate comfort, visualize it.

This one time, my friend played some nice relaxing music. I can't remember what it was, but it was fucking great. I just closed my eyes and I could see nice comfy grass, with a sunset in the distance illuminating the whole area, with some trees around me. I guess that's my happy place! Can't wait to go there some day.

 

[Flutterguy]

Changes everytime. I tend to meditate with some regularity, most everytime I'm on bus or train or stuck with friends in a bar. Achieving visuals though? Thats a rare treat, outside of my quarter-annual fungal medication.

 

[Queen Michael]

Just a friendly word of warning: The mods don't like it when you discuss using drugs, so you might want to edit your post.

Anyhoo, my happy place is libraries. I love them so much that today I'm going on a vacation to Stockholm where I'll just be checking out the libraries.

 

[username sucks]

Driving on the highway with my friend. Which highway? Where are we going? It doesn't matter. Because we're leaving, we're taking on this world, and we're finally getting out of the little town we've spent our whole lives in.

Are we leaving for good? Where will we stop? It doesn't matter. Because we have our whole lives ahead of us, and we are free.

The road is freedom. Even when I'm just driving to the next town to see my sister or something, I love the feel of being behind the wheel. And when it have my best friend with me? Hell, it doesn't get much better than that.

This is what fills many of my waking dreams. When I am driving, I'm never mad. Nothing can worry me, and everything seems right in the world for a bit.

 

[SweetShark]

You know, one of the most bizzare things happened to my life was me and some of my friends walking in the middle of a road very,very late at night inside my town.
No traffic, no sound, no talking just us walking.
So strange, but at the same time a very unique feeling. No give a sh*t nothing around and don't stick with the "rules" of the human world: "Don't be in the middle of the road" is one of them.

Not the only happy place of course I have, but the most interesting one I have to share.

 

[mistahzig1]

Some ancient stone ruins with beautiful colored leaves dancing in the wind on twilight.


Sooooo relaxing?

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

My grandparent's farm.

It is quiet, packed to the brim of important childhood moments and a place where I feel completely at ease no matter what has happened in my life. Its a great place to write as there are no distractions. It's a large property and makes for a great walk. It has no internet but family card games are far more valuable to me anyway. It's where I plan on getting my ashes spread after my mortal remains have no more purpose on Earth.

Spoiler: Remember this comic?

That sense of childhood wonder walking alone through the trees of the property my forefather's settled hasn't vanished. It's magic and I can't think of another place where I feel that way. I'd gladly run around with my nephew there, any season.

I love that place. Its where I feel completely free.
[sub]The only thing that would make it better would be bringing back all the family who passed on back to share it with me. Grandma could cook![/sub]

 

[Lieju]

My childhood home on the countryside.

Preferably on the fall when it's not yet too cold, but summer is over, there are no humans and it's quiet.
Or a summer night, a calm lake with black-throated loons calling.

Those birds generally have a very calming effect on me.

Spoiler: birds

 

[Bestival]

Once spend a week at my best friend's dad's place, chopping wood in knee high snow. Everything about that place and time was amazing, like living in a freaking christmas card.

So yeah, middle of nowhere snowy mountains for me, thanks!

 

[kommando367]

I require no happy place, for I require no comfort. I guess you could say that all of Earth is my happy place because I consider all of it's problems and subsequent solutions to be very interesting. Especially when the main problem is trying to find a solution that won't cause a larger problem than the one that the solution was originally supposed to solve. When I run into a problem during the course of my own work, I simply view it as a challenge, another opportunity to refine or at least maintain my skills and knowledge.

 

[Rose and Thorn]

My room is the place I feel safest, but if I try to imagine myself in a happy place, it is usually something about my past, like my Grandmothers old cottage or something. Something that makes me feel nostalgic and melancholy.

* I also love Jazz music playing while it is raining. * Sheep made me remember that.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

My current happy place is a wooden pier in the middle of nowhere. Its around midnight and there is a raging thunderstorm with monsoon like rain and wind. Endless ocean to my front and sides.
Sometimes there is a bench for me to sit on, other times there is a beach chair for me to lie on.
I love storms and the way water looks during a particularly violent one. It helps calm me down and I go there a lot when I'm trying to sleep.

 

[Artina89]

I know this will sound a bit boring, but I feel happiest and safest in my room. It has my PC, my electric bass, DVD's and games consoles. It has pretty much everything I need, so I can just lie back and relax.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

My Grandparents' house in North Carolina, built on the side of a mountain. Beautiful, quiet, the first place I saw snow that I remember (as a native Floridian thats a big deal). Great memories... I miss that house and would dearly love to own it myself some day.

 

[Ambitiousmould]

It was sat at the table outside my favourite (even though it wasn't the best) chippy, where I could sit and silently judge the people walking past, because on that particular street, in that particular town, the people were quite likely to be worse people than myself, and it's nice to know that I am not the worst person ever (even though partaking in such an activity shows that I am probably exactly that). I loved that place, and I always ordered burger and chips with gravy, and every time I walked in the woman would put a burger on, which was great.

But then it closed down, so now I would have to say it's my room, because all I have to do is close the hatch (my room is a loft conversion) and sit at my PC and for all intents and purposes I am the sole controller of my own little ego-fuelled world, where I can video game until I need to sleep (or at least until my parents call me to do something/talk/for dinner/tea) and simply disconnect anyone I deem unworthy of my judgmental presence. In other words, paradise.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I know this will sound a bit boring, but I feel happiest and safest in my room. It has my PC, my electric bass, DVD's and games consoles. It has pretty much everything I need, so I can just lie back and relax.

Same here (it's my domain) althought if I have to improved it, it will be soundproof so I can't hear my parent below (they have loud voices), better ventilation so no spec of dust can gather and it is competely under my control (sometime my parent move stuff around much to my annoyance).

 

[Esotera]

Just a friendly word of warning: The mods don't like it when you discuss using drugs, so you might want to edit your post.

Anyhoo, my happy place is libraries. I love them so much that today I'm going on a vacation to Stockholm where I'll just be checking out the libraries.

My understanding of the code of conduct is that as long as you don't encourage illegal activity, it's fine to talk about your personal experiences using drugs.

OT: Anywhere that is really, really far away from civilisation. I wouldn't want to be there for a prolonged period of time, but sometimes it's absolutely amazing to know that you're the only person in an area of several kilometres. You can be yourself and don't have to worry about massive crowds or what anyone else thinks.

Spoiler: Last place I felt like this, at the top of a mountain

 

[RedDeadFred]

I'm skiing down a beautiful mountain and the entire hill has fresh powder. There is also a variety of Chopin pieces playing from seemingly nowhere. It is the perfect temperature, the sun is shining, and everything is perfectly serene. Also, the hill is endless so there's no chairlift to the top to interrupt my meditative skiing.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Meadow near the swamp where my best friend lived... or the meadow at grandmas with huge double row of birches on the road
Actually, also the clouds while flying

Spoiler: Soothing music

 

[HoboPie]

My idea of a happy place almost seems too fantastical compared to some of the other places you all describe, but I usually envision myself in a massive multi-floor library seemingly fit for an RPG dungeon, except with no dangerous creatures in sight. Scattered throughout the place are copies of almost every physical written book, fiction or otherwise, available to read and hard drives & computers with every digital work made as well. Whether there are other people in this happy place depends on what problems I'm dealing with at the time, but there are usually only a couple at most if there are.

Quite frankly, I have no idea why more shows and games don't take place solely in such a place, with a story driven by the protagonist's past or something. It would probably be a dream if I found something like that.