I think a reality-based life absent imagination, dreams, fantasizing, creating, inventing is not worth living. Is that your life?

Your assumption is that reality is drudgery but it does not have to be. Even going to work and house cleaning and serving on committees can be interesting if I make myself interested in it.  I enjoy my life - my husband, friends, loves, interests, doing things, helping others and making life better for others as well.  Even enjoy my sleeping.  After which I wake up every morning and greet the day enthusiastically and with gratitude to God. 

You're assuming, for whatever reason, that a reality-based life is a life absent of imagination, dreams, fantasizing, creating, and inventing. It isn't and most people know that. Also, most people know that one's imagination, dreams, fantasizing, creating, and inventing can be taken from one's mind to become a reality if you are willing to put forth the effort to make it happen.

 Reality: the quality or state of being real, a real event, entity, or state of affairs, the totality of real things and events, something that is neither derivative nor dependent but exists necessarily. (Mirriam/Webster)

  I've lived my whole life in reality but it's been far from boring, a drudgery, gray, dull, or monotone because I was willing to take the dreams and imagination I had in my mind and made and made them a reality. :)