Don people who play FRPGs lose the ability to distinguish between fantasy and reality?
Role playing games make a very sharp distinction between reality and fantasy. Even in I-games like Multiverser, where the player is playing a character based on himself, the player is always distinguished from his character. Even in LARPs, where the players are acting the parts they play, this character/player distinction is maintained. Can an author so lose himself in his writing that he confuses his books with that which is real? There is a degree to which every author feels his work come alive as he writes it, as if there were another world out there and he is as much discovering it as creating it; but ultimately he knows that that world exists in his imagination solely, except if he can convey it to others. Do readers become lost in the worlds written? Many times avid readers become so immersed in a book that all else fades away; but as soon as the book is closed, reality returns in full measure. What of television shows and movies? One viewer reports that whenever a character on t
