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ultrafacts:

- When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior and thoughts to match that of the character, a new study suggests.

Researchers at Ohio State University examined what happened to people who, while reading a fictional story, found themselves feeling the emotions, thoughts, beliefs and internal responses of one of the characters as if they were their own - a phenomenon the researchers call “experience-taking.”

They found that, in the right situations, experience-taking may lead to real changes, if only temporary, in the lives of readers.

Source/more info: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/exptaking.htm

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^ fav fictional character

*facepalm*

is this the reason i have random manic moments? just saying random shit to my friends and bein completely stupid with them?….