She'd always had to have an imaginary life simultaneously, as the real one was inadequate.
You are thinking of an imaginary Robinson's life, thrown on a picked island and treated like a spoiled child by nature.
They then go through an imaginary "life," getting married and having kids.
"You live an imaginary life for a long time in the place you choose, and you have to like it there."
She would hardly know where her real and imaginary lives diverged.
She said: "My internal imaginary life was really fruitful at that time.
And each of these characters lives an imaginary life as well as a real one.
"People lead imaginary lives that are important to their creativity."
Since then, people in the photos have acquired names, relationships and imaginary lives.
Another concerns the daughter's imaginary life, which seems to be led largely in a private lair under the family front porch.