You can live in imaginary places without feeling the real terror or the real pain.
I suddenly got the idea of writing a piece that went to many imaginary places, psychological places.
After all, he said, both strive to transport their audiences "to real and imaginary places."
It really is about the search for safety, following the river down to the sea and then on to an imaginary safe place.
It might be a familiar, foreign, historical or imaginary place.
"It's an imaginary place but so is everything these days," he said.
You seem to be saying that this first forest is an imaginary place.
Maybe she understood what it was in his life that made this imaginary place so important to him.
I wouldn't strain to picture his presence beside me in some imaginary place.
Travel writing is a genre that has, as its focus, accounts of real or imaginary places.