Think back to the last time you played make-believe. Compare it to reading a book or enjoying some other narrative art-form. Are they completely the same? What are some similarities? Differences?
The experience is very similar but there is one major difference, the narration. The book, or what have you, guides where the story goes, it creates things independent of us. It takes us where the creator wants us to go, and I feel a lot of times it is a place that is darker than what we would design ourselves. We become attached to characters or things and they are destroyed in the story, something in which we would never do if given the opportunity to. They can also spark emotions we normally wouldn't try to recreate ourselves, like sorrow, fear, etc. There is less control over what we see and it effects us differently.
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