@yangyang_x2 said in Is it just me or like:
When youโre reading or listening to a random story/book, itโs like kinda sad, and you start crying out of nowhere , and youโre near someone and they just say โdude, itโs just a story/book, itโs most likely fakeโ
*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, itโs 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 youโre attached to a character, because you see something of yourself in them, they remind you of something, or theyโre just your plain favorite, and something bad happens. Readerโs minds are amazing, because we can get โtransportedโ to a new world, and we donโt see just words on a page, and so when something happens to that world and those characters weโve learned to love, our mind does irrational things to us. (Ex: make us cry, etc., etc.)
