The Power of Art, the illusions of literture

HAve you ever read/seen? something that called you in so much that you felt like the charcter/object, when doing somthing else, to the point where you lose your identity to point and become that other perosn or feel their feelings flow through you like blood

-that you actully felt like the person, and had their motives felt their feelings

sometimes when i'm just thinking suicidly i think and feel like a suicidal person from a number of stories and movies i've heard/read,

or sometimes when i see something and it triggers a character onto me, and sometimes i just trigger

today for example ,this isn't as grim as my frist example, there is a girl who sits in front of me in IB Film class, and afterwards we talked and she was tired and she resting her head, on her hand, on my desk. (we are semi-close so my actions aren't that out of place) I remeber in this injoyable graphic novel Blankets (read it if you see it) the main character is hiding with this girl and she lays in front of him and he strokes her hair, and after she laid it down i began to stroke her hair, and that imagine came to mind, and the mood of the scene combined with how i felt about stroking her hand to create a stronger more soothing emotion

i hope that is clear, i belive it is and i hope it is a universal feeling, it was impowering, i felt out of my body (not to overexagerate the scene, but right now me and her are on that fine line of wheter it ends in freindship, or a trial relationship)

 

hmm thats interesting....I know when i read a book I feel like im in the book an observer to whats happening or depending on how i feel about the character I may feel like how she feels while reading the book. For example Im currently reading Secret Life Of The Bee's and when the girl Lilly is getting angery or sad, or having feelings for this guy Zach I sort of feel that emotion. But it has to be a good book that interests me or I abounded it completely.

But I have never experienced what you have described. That sounds cool, but that happens to me with movie...sort of...I'll have what I call movie moments (dur.) and it just seems so serial to be there in that moment. Its cool.

 

thank you; thank you; i thought i was totally out there with this idea

yeah it preety much the same, imagine you are doing something that lily was doing with someone that feels like zach to you, and then you have your own emotional reponse mixing with the memory of the story which redoubles that emotion, it can be trippy, and if in a good thing, overwhelmingly satisfying....