How Storytelling Made Us Human (The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human)

Jonathan Gottschall's book is written as a story about how the fictional world and stories from there affect people:) It all starts with kids who have creative fantasies in their first few years of life. Next, adults leave Neverland (fictional country of Peter Pan)But fantasies overtake them in dreams, which can be considered as an “air trainer” for experiencing situations that do not often occur in the real life of sleepers. In addition, there is literature, the reading of which affects both the consciousness and the subconscious. Moreover, reading fiction and delving deeply into the plot, people do not notice the influence on the subconscious. But if you look more broadly, then each person writes his own myth about his life, which is fixed in his memory and which he shares with others. Moreover, the human memory is very plastic and the myth becomes more and more beautiful as events are removed into the past. It is this myth-making that allows people to purposefully live their lives and not fall into depression from the realization of the frailty of existence. By the way, psychotherapists often help “edit the plot” and once again play the main role. Now you can fantasize not only in dreams or reading literature - now popular games that in the multiplayer version allow you to jointly participate in myth-making and experience emotions that are difficult to get in reality. At the limit, this can lead to the fact that some people can completely move to the virtual world, which makes it easier to feel like a myth hero.

P.S. Posts on related topics can be read

• about a thousand-strong hero - https://t.me/book_cube/289 and https://t.me/book_cube/352
• about the neuroscience of reading. https://t.me/book_cube/16
• about the work of the writers - https://t.me/book_cube/294

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