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Re: Is immersion important to you?

[(Anonymous)]

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.