Topic: IMMERSIVE (Read 1199 times)

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What I think the word immersion means is probably different from how other people are defining it. I am probably the one who is wrong, too, because I am thinking of it as an unattainable thing, which is something I do a lot with feelings.

Anyway I remember being very deeply immersed in Lost Highway for the first hour of it or so. I paused the movie and I was extremely creeped out and could still hear the deep ominous tones of the soundtrack in my head when I went downstairs for a snack. It changed the atmosphere of the house, it changed the atmosphere of everything for me that night. I enjoyed it alot.

I think it's true that your personality is only wet cement for so long and then you spend the rest of your life flailing around waist deep in it as it traps you more and more completely. This is the knowledge revealed to me from living 20 long years.
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I think it's true that your personality is only wet cement for so long and then you spend the rest of your life flailing around waist deep in it as it traps you more and more completely. This is the knowledge revealed to me from living 20 long years.

Haha I really liked this.
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I've been reading a book on zen lately.

I can't believe I have gone on in my own life for so long not knowing what zen is. I am turning my life around as we speak.
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I think it's true that your personality is only wet cement for so long and then you spend the rest of your life flailing around waist deep in it as it traps you more and more completely. This is the knowledge revealed to me from living 20 long years.

Yeah, this is actually pretty good.

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i'm not sure what the first thing that made me feel truly immersed was. but i know star wars was my favorite for a long, long, long time... :)
i don't usually admit it but i can still get totally immersed in that world. i actually really enjoy immersion. i think a lot of people our age (20's) look down upon it because it could seem childish. it's a vulnerability. but it's such an honest thing, i love that feeling of being a complete noob and totally immersed.

but if you're looking for a really immersive book you could check out one of these, which are probably my favorites:
parable of the sower by octavia butler
baron in the trees by italo calvino (which is a book about immersion actually)
waiting for the barbarians by j.m. coetzee
those three book completely draw me into them and i end up reading them the whole day.
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