More on brains, stories, and brain-stories

[lonespark]

In Unfuck Your Brain, on the next page it talks about distinguishing between reality and representations of reality
Like in movies or rollercoasters or any other kind of simulation

And how it's important for your brain to perceive danger/risk vs. perceived danger/risk,
which often involves relearning/retraining.

We do that stuff all the time...
Like pet owners have to learn what's dangerous for their specific kind of pet
and also for their particular pet.
And that's the same for children or anyone else you need to take care of...

And with jobs, like, 
clean enough for your house isn't clean enough for a commercial kitchen,
or a hospital!
And in everyday life people tend to avoid hazardous waste, fires, etc.
but when you have the training and the responsibility to deal with it,
the risk calculations are different.
(They get too different, and complacency kills, but still...)

With stories, tho...
People's tolerance for "unreal" pain/fear/etc. varies.
And I've always been a person who deep-dives into what I read, and what I watch, and what I learn.
I get feelings about it, and I can't just turn them off
because fiction or history or not personally affecting me right here and now.

I think probably folks of certain neurotypes
may need stories more?
Certainly relate to them differently,
Feel them more intensely...
Use them in different ways?
Or need/use different types of stories?

Comments

[silveradept]

I think this is true. We all need different stories and we relate to them differently, depending on the feels they give us and the characters they contain.

[alatefeline]

Yessss this is a good thinkythoughts for me to read right now, THANK YOU.

Coherent response ... maybe later? But thanks regardless.