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winston  ·  4635 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your Brain on Fiction
    The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life;
This is disconcerting but not surprising. I would attribute this to the enjoyment we feel when reading. The suspense, horror, joy etc that we encounter through a well written piece of fiction is a testament to this correlation.