Returning to the Real World After the Faire

[Lady De Rue Rue]

Does anyone experience difficulties into returning back into the real world after attending a Faire?  I noticed on Monday, I could not hold a conversation with a former co-worker on some issues going on with stock market.  Let alone pulling up some information off the internet to do some trading for the day.
I had lost almost any kind of vocabulary because I was trying to get out of "Ren Faire" mode.  He kept asking me "it seems that you are in another world today".  By Tuesday, I was back on the internet and able to function as a 21st century human being.  Maybe I am just getting old....

[maeven]

I do find it somewhat difficult. I'm sure I'm not the only one who might feel this way, but going to faire-especially if you've had a wonderful time-kinda gives you a natural high. It's quite a rush. I find it difficult to come back to work and return to the real world especially if you work with people who really don't understand what faires are all about. It almost feels hazy at times! lol...

[LadyAsh]

I also find it a bit difficult to adjust to life in the 21st century after returning from faire. I notice that after I return, all I can think about is faire while at work, or I would go online to here and another rennie sites. I also find myself listening to a lot of rennie music. I can't wait to go to faire again to experience that "natural high," as maeven put it. 

[maeven]

Yeah, I find myself listening to faire music a lot more at work as well

[Mairte]

I really MISS faire after I have been and gone. And yes, I find it difficult to get myself back into regular world mode!!

[Captain Teague]

What's a real world? 


But in truth, I get very sad to enter the CAR after a fun filled faire day, let alone re-enter the "real world." 

[Lady De Rue Rue]

I agree with you Maven, I really think I got "the Ren Faire high" from going last weekend.  And when the faire opens I just got taken in by the colors, sounds, the people and the stuff related to the faire. 

Where we live the winter last forever and the summers are too short.  So, the excitement during these months builds all the way up to opening weekend and the faire opens and time goes so, fast!    And we not close to any other faire except this one, maybe in a year or two we will start driving around to different faire for different faire experiences.

And as Lord Dragon said I feel the exact same way when Sunday evening comes, I do feel kind of sad when we get in the car and drive home. 

[Queen Bonnie]

 Faire is the real world! LOL. I hate disguising myself as a muggle at times!

[Captain Teague]

Faire is the real world! LOL. I hate disguising myself as a muggle at times!

Well said, Milady, well said.

[Archer]

The thread title brought about a delay of viewing the thread content.   A negative feel sums it up.   

It seems that those who visit here make an effort to not let the "feel/experience of faire" come to an end, if they can help it.   

[temper]

We call it "faire hangover."  It's toughest on my new folks-they go out, have a thousand people yell their name and then get to come home to jobs where folks only notice if they screw up.  For me, I have to fly my extrovert flag and be the boss and then come back to a fairly quiet job (well and also the boss but different.) In one I get to threaten bodily harm and pick on strangers and in the other I have to be a diplomat.  Sometimes the transition is not easy and complete and I get "dramatic groundhog" looks on my first day back.

[BLAKDUKE]

I think this is a common feeling amongst most playtrons and performers alike.  As an example I will tell you an experience my wife and I had at Sterling on our honeymoon back in 86.  We spent the weekend doing things like siteseeing and traveling around and we ended up at Sterling.  For many weeks previous we had built up garb wardrobe for her and she got to wear it for the first time on opening weekend.  She related much later that the one fear she had was that someone who knew her would see her.  We spent the whole day, eating, drinking, seeing shows etc.  At days end as we loaded ourselves into our RV, she nonchalontely asked "When are we?".  To me that spells faire experience.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

I don't have faire withdrawal, because I keep faire with me. 

I have a 40 minute drive to & from work.  I play my faire music & sing along.  At work, everyone knows that I love faire, so during the week, a good portion of them come up to ask about my weekend, and I relive it telling them.

I look at my pictures that I took regularly, and smile at the memories of my friends and the different things we did while there, what shows we saw, etc.

And I start seriously looking at the weather mid-week and start planning alternative garb depending on what the weather will be (like tomorrow, the temp is supposed to be 94 at Bristol, so it's light and airy, no noble garb or tight bodices).

So, if I'm not at faire, I'm listening to faire sounds, looking at faire pictures, and planning next week's garb.   

[Captain Teague]

So....does that mean you're in real world denial? 

[Lady Lowrye verch Jankyns]

I'm still pretty new at this, but I can see how easily it is to become addicted.  It is a wonderful community of people.  I'm looking forward (okay--I'm driving my husband crazy trying to figure out when and how many times I (we) can go to the next Faires that are coming up.  I'm even trying to "recruit" friends to go!