I want you to know that fiction is created by humans as an exercise of the imagination, yet fiction has a part to play in our evolution.
Firstly, in fantasy fiction, we are in another reality, a reality of our own choosing, either created by us or for us by others. One of the attributes of good fiction is its ability to suspend the normal conscious reality of everyday life, and introduce a new reality; this phenomenon is called suspense or suspension of disbelief.
Our current conscious reality is full of so much flaws that sometimes we wish to have the ability to tweak it a bit– and we can, by embracing fiction. In fiction, our brain rewires itself to experience a new reality different from the one it has been experiencing.
Due to the nature of the brain, it loves new sensations, and another attribute of a good work of fiction is its intrinsic power of giving new sensations to the brain and affecting the mind.
Then we have to consider the kind of fiction to feed our minds with, for the wrong sort of fiction would have the wrong effect on our minds; I say we use fiction like drugs, an overdose could kill.
Jumping from one reality to the other has a very profound effect on the mind, apart from making it stronger and flexible, it expands its awareness making it adaptable to any form of experience. A mind exposed to sufficient fiction cannot be taken by surprise in any situation that the universe may throw at it.
Lastly, we can draw important myths from fiction and make them true, for indeed, everything imaginable can be real for a given value of real.
It is the brain that experiences these realities, so can choose which is really real at a given point in time, amazing results would be discovered once this is practiced.
meaning fiction can be a very powerful tool for mind improvement and reality control, but lets not forget its well known purpose which is entertainment.
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