@yangyang_x2 said in Is it just me or like:
When you’re reading or listening to a random story/book, it’s like kinda sad, and you start crying out of nowhere , and you’re near someone and they just say “dude, it’s just a story/book, it’s most likely fake”
*I do this when I write bronana bread. I do this in literal rps/D&D campaigns with my friends. Because sometimes the storytelling (even just reading) is just so detailed and emotional, that it really does play with the Pathos of the mind. (Pathos is a writing technique that is usually used in persuasive
Because sometimes, it’s not fake. Sometimes those events are reality, because there are people like that who do the things in the situations.
EDIT: It can also be that because you’re attached to a character, because you see something of yourself in them, they remind you of something, or they’re just your plain favorite, and something bad happens. Reader’s minds are amazing, because we can get ‘transported’ to a new world, and we don’t see just words on a page, and so when something happens to that world and those characters we’ve learned to love, our mind does irrational things to us. (Ex: make us cry, etc., etc.)
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