Fantasies in my mind can slow my reboot?

I don't think it'll slow the reboot time but it's stressful having these unfulfillable fantasies and desires so it can lead to relapse. I would suggest that you fill your time with activities other than fantasizing. If you find yourself starting to fantasize, you can pick up a pen and write, or pick up a book and read, or watch some tv anything really to get your mind off it. The key is that you find a pleasurable activity that isn't PMO. Some sort of healthy replacement. For instance, some ex-smokers eat carrots when they would have normally smoked a cigarette. When I'm starting to 'go there' I use the nofap emergency button and get lost in those pages. I also like to journal, read, and occasionally watch tv.

 

By no means am I out of the woods. That being said I've had fantasies enter my head the last few days. It did not get me aroused though. Almost like the brain was going back to it's regularly programmed schedule of having pornographic images in the mind but the body portion of arousal was disconnected. I have not felt any worse. I choose not to fret over it and spend time after going "oh shit, someone said that's almost as bad as a relapse".

Obviously it's encouraged to not think about these thoughts or dwell on them for what are probably obvious reasons. If you go to the barber, you're going to get a haircut. If you think about fantasies, you're going to want to consummate that fantasy.

Another nice way to sum what I want to say: don't worry, be happy. The end result of you worrying too much about it is stress that could lead to PMO. Think of the fantasy as the drop right before the top of a rollercoaster. Let it run it's course without indulging it, and they won't even phase you after a while. Something happens with all that fancy chemistry stuff mentioned on here. You literally won't feel held hostage as much.