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I remembered something out of the blue last night. My dad and I had gone to see a movie, and afterwards he asked me why I was so quiet. I told him that I was just reacclimatizing to the real world, and he was confused. It turned out that when he consumes media, he doesn’t get immersed. He doesn’t come out of it like he’s just gone through a change in reality. Which makes me wonder how he even consumes media at all, because the only way I can imagine doing so is by losing my thoughts to it and entering the story. Do you guys get immersed in books and movies, or do you enjoy them some other way? Can you describe the other way?

I don't get much immersed in anything except maybe work much, mostly out of having a disperse attention span and constantly switching between tasks. I'd say I still take in everything that's happening, connect with the characters and so on but I'm still fully aware of my surroundings and what's going on. I thought immersion was reserved for things one really really liked so this concept of engaging with everything like this is new to me.

Immersion is important, but it's not the only way I enjoy things. A really good book or movie will make me feel like I'm waking up from a dream when it's over and I quite like that feeling. That doesn't happen with everything though. I can still enjoy something without being immersed in it, but only if I'm with somebody to talk to about it.

Wow, uh...no? That's...okay I'm not going to say anything else there.

I watch things. I view them with my eyes and hear the dialogue/music/fx with my ears. If it's good, I might genuinely focus my attention on it, but I'm still pretty damn oriented in the real world. I know where I'm sitting, who I'm next to, and what else is going on around me. I would never have conceived of anyone experiencing a shift in reality, that's alien to me.

I only feel like that for good books these days. Otherwise for most stuff, I feel like I'm seeing how a fellow writer wrote things in a plot, rather than getting super suspension of disbelief, if that makes sense. I still enjoy stories, but I'm not super deep into it most of the time as you described. Hopefully there will be more stories that will get me super immersed though!

Huh, I definitely experience story immersion, but not nearly to the extent you're describing. I'm still very much rooted to the world consciously, even if my thoughts are totally absorbed in the world I'm reading about/watching/playing in. Like it wouldn't be a huge deal if I had to pause something to go swap my laundry and come back.

Yeah, I like getting immersed. I even get mad at 555 fake phone numbers.

Not at all, I didn't even know that was a thing. Then again, I am that person that's watching a movie while reading a book while playing one of those 'connect three' games on my phone. xD

I can't imagine being so 'into' something that I forgot I was... existing, I guess is what I am getting from your definition of immersion? Even when I go to the movies I'm just... watching something?

That really only happens to me with books for some reason. Maybe because with visual media, it's all shown to you and you don't really have to use your imagination to fill in so many blanks? Maybe my mind doesn't quite recognize the "real world" while I'm reading because it's working harder to imagine what things look like or sound like...

But honestly I don't really enjoy TV and movies so... *shrug*

Occasionally with RPGs but that's assuming I'm REALLY into the game in question which typically only happens once every other year or so. I attempt to prologue the 'high' of immersion through collecting related merch and writing fanfic.

Yes, immersion is important to me, at least when it comes to fiction. I love getting totally immersed in the world of the piece of media. That's why characterization and worldbuilding are the two most important things to me in a story. I want the world and the characters to feel real. Also, that's why I hate first person, because I can't seem to immerse with things written in first person.

Immersion is awesome, but I only experience a moderate degree of it when I'm really engaged with something (especially a book), and I almost never get so immersed that I partially forget myself. The fact that I don't forget myself doesn't make me any less engaged though. I'm definitely the type of person who hyperfixates intensely on certain stories, sometimes to a degree where it's a little bit unbalanced and not entirely healthy. But for me that manifests in how I think about the story when I'm not actively watching/reading it. When I'm hyperfixated I think about that story and those characters constantly, like they're never far from the front of my mind.

One instance I remember where I did partially forget myself was when I read the entirety of The Virgin Suicides in one day, finished reading it late at night, went to the bathroom, and was genuinely startled that my own face in the bathroom mirror was pretty. It was jarring and felt like it shouldn't look that way. The book goes to such an ugly, sickly, decaying, disturbing place, with a lot of vivid little sensory details woven in, and I guess I was immersed enough in it that by the time I finished it, ugliness was all I was expecting to see. The fact that the Lisbon girls are all pretty until they essentially begin to decay (psychologically) under the suffocating weight of their parents moral panic and deranged imprisonment may've had something to do with it as well. To this day I don't know how I feel about the book, but it certainly packed a punch.

I love when I can get immersed in something but it's kinda rare for me. It was easier to get immersed in movies when I was a kid (the original Jurassic Park film comes to mind) but as an adult, I usually notice too many inconsistencies in movies or little things that ruin my suspension of belief and that makes it hard to get immersed. If the movie is good (and the soundtrack is good), I can get immersed in certain scenes or for several minutes.

I can absolutely get immersed in music though if it's something I like. Good music can really transport me.

I also get really immersed in books if they're written well. Sometimes books are written with such flowery prose or sentences that have me tripping and stumbling all over them and it doesn't allow me to get immersed at all. (Usually I quit the book when that happens because idgaf about fancy words/sentence structure; I read for the story.) But if the book is written in a way that doesn't have me focused on the words on the page, then I can get absolutely immersed and it'll be like I'm experiencing it. The best books are the ones where I don't even see the words on the page at all and then later on I get confused and think it was a really good movie that I watched.

It depends on the media. Some are very easy to get lost in and I enjoy that very much. Others... there are aspects that make it hard to forget you're watching a movie. Bad performances, weak plots, terrible costume/wig choices, etc. Those all prevent total immersion. I might still enjoy what I'm watching, but it's definitely "something I'm watching" and not something I'm immersed in to the point of forgetting it's not real.

I tend to get immersed in books.pinlished lit, fic, manga, graphic novels, whatever.

Sometimes podcasts. Movies & shoes definitely can drag me in, but books take the cake.i think maybe it's because my brain has to create an image with the words given vs the world shown to me by this other medium.

It can depend. If I'm just killing time before the next task or something, then immersion not that important to me.

But if I sit down and intentionally invest chunks of my day into something, then absolutely. I want to care about plot, characters, story, music, visuals, etc. Maybe part of it is that I want to forget the world I live in for a little while, but I also like being in other people's worlds too.

I do a little of immersion and non-immersion, less so for movies/tv, especially out of a theater, and more so for books and music and plays. For me if I'm watching something with a friend, I'm not going to get immersed at all. Usually that means my brain is on and I'm analyzing the narrative as I go, or I'm watching other people react. The difference for me is how much of my senses I'm actually aware of/I am aware of thinking. That said, I've only taken time to re-acclimatize with books.

Books are by far the most immersive media to me. I've missed (multiple) bus stops, I'm so in the other world you can call my name repeatedly and I just won't hear you.

Movies and TV are less so, I never completely lose awareness that I'm in a room watching a screen, but occasionally I do get so emotionally involved that I have flashes of very hateful, violent feelings towards people who talk during it and break the mood. It's why I don't really like to watch things with friends because if they do that I'm going to think less of them for a while and there's nothing I can do about that (I never say this of course, except the occasional sshhh, please).

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