Changes and challenges will come and go but we will always have the gift of transporting ourselves in time and place through stories.
Fiction vicariously gives us an escape from where we are.We never grow tired of loving and needing the fiction we find in books and movies. As children, we beg for one more book before we give over to sleep or ask to hear the favorite, over and over again.
As adults we continue to trade in sleep to finish the chapter, see the end of the show, binge-watch the series or re-watch favorites on a host of devices. Why? We love fiction and we need fiction. We learn from fiction, we upload our imaginations to access fiction, we feel our way through fiction, we connect and we find ourselves and others through fiction. It expands our social occurs to the extent that the evoked images are activated by psychological transportation to a state in which a reader becomes absorbed in the narrative world – for a time, leaving the real world behind. We are moved emotionally and neurophysiologically. It’s not a matter of ignoring the false notes; we don’t even see them. Green and Brock argue that entering fictional worlds “radically alters the way information is processed.” The more absorbed readers are in a story, the more the story changes them. They propose that when we are highly absorbed in the story, we barely detect “the false notes” or inaccuracies. It is not a matter of ignoring the false notes; we don’t even see them.Whether it is the story you are reading to your child or the movie you are watching with hundreds of others in a theater, the experience of, screaming or crying together connects us to others. Even if we watch separately, the fiction in books and films become part of our shared experience. Movie titles, characters, and dialogue evoke certain meanings, become part of the shared culture and are used in our daily lives long after a film is seen. When we are driving a race car, neurons in our brain fire. When we watch James Bond drive a race car, a subset of those same neurons also fire giving us the virtual-reality experience of driving. In terms of emotional or affective experience, if someone wounds me or steals my child, a set of neurons register pain and anguish in my brain. If you witness my pain a subset ofAs such, fiction invites us to see and experience the world through other people’s eyes. There is a reason thatFiction allows us to know we are not alone in our feelings and thoughts. Many have embraced the reality that they are not the only one in a dysfunctional family thanks to series likeFiction fulfills the request, “Stop the world, I want to get off.” It allows us to escape from our world to worlds of fantasy andMany films and books provide the justice and moral reckoning we crave but can’t guarantee in life. We believed in the decision reached inbecause we need it. Too many days in our lives feel like a “Mission Impossible.” We have needed James Bond, codename 007, since he arrived in the 1953 novelevents at a distance. It interrupts the code of silence and the symptom of avoidance so common to Post TraumaticDisorder. It allows small, safe, visual and emotional steps to re-experience, find the words and integrate the unthinkable – tragic death, child abuse, war etc.. They found that reading the books improved attitudes toward stigmatized groups in elementary-school children as well as high-school and university students in Italy and the United Kingdom.raise consciousness about the horrors of slavery and racism and offer a glimpse of hope in the actions of young people using sports to connect.and other threats. One hypothesis is that this is actually a counterphobic solution to what terrifies us: death. We are soabout death, we can’t stop dealing with it, denying it, rounding up other survivors, or watching it in fiction.“Tell me the facts and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.”Suzanne B. Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP, a psychologist and host of “Psych Up Live” on International Talk Radio, formerly taught at Long Island University Post and is the author of three books includingSelf Tests are all about you. Are you outgoing or introverted? Are you a narcissist? Does perfectionism hold you back? Find out the answers to these questions and more with Psychology Today.
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