Does reading bring out strong emotions in you?
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Does reading bring out strong emotions in you?
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Yes, sometimes I want to scream at the characters and other times I laugh and cry with them. The best books normally evoke emotion. The bad ones don't in my opinion.
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Now I don't know about crying because of a book, but one instance of what happened to me comes immediately to mind. I was reading Ted Dekkers "Circle" series (a very involved story of good and evil), and I had read late into the night. In the middle of the night my telephone rang, which is not at all uncommon since I work for a funeral home. Luckily, my wife answered the phone and began speaking with the person on the other end of the line as she tried to rouse me from sleep. I am an especially hard sleeper sometimes. I woke up, but was convinced that I was in this parallel universe that Dekker wrote about in his books. It was a full two minutes before I finally came to myself, realized where I was and what was going on, and was able to coherently talk to the hospice nurse on the phone. All I could say was thank goodness for my wife's intervention!
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Reading this the other night had me bawling like a baby, our past experiences, our past losses...reading can bring it all out there...in a good way, sometimes it let's us make peace with our demons kinda, sorta, in a way...
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Ha ha! Michael, thank you for sharing this delightful story! It really made me smile! I have never had an identical experience, but I know of two similar ones. One, my hubby and I were in Asia at the time, and we went to see The Matrix: Reloaded. If you've ever seen it, you know it's a very complex, kind of disorienting movie, and the characters move through this labyrinthine building whose doors open into other worlds. Well, when we came out of the movie, it was late at night, and there we were in this deserted mall in Asia that was constructed of several similar-looking towers. We felt like we were truly back in The Matrix, and it took us a while to find the way out.michael_smith wrote: I was reading Ted Dekkers "Circle" series (a very involved story of good and evil), and I had read late into the night. In the middle of the night my telephone rang, which is not at all uncommon since I work for a funeral home. Luckily, my wife answered the phone and began speaking with the person on the other end of the line as she tried to rouse me from sleep. I am an especially hard sleeper sometimes. I woke up, but was convinced that I was in this parallel universe that Dekker wrote about in his books. It was a full two minutes before I finally came to myself, realized where I was and what was going on, and was able to coherently talk to the hospice nurse on the phone. All I could say was thank goodness for my wife's intervention!
Even more interestingly, a friend of mine was once sitting and reflecting on whether there might be a primal language that everyone started out speaking. As she was thinking deeply about this, her brother came up and spoke to her (in English). She did not understand him, and said, "What?", but he did not understand her. She was speaking something else. She had to realize what was going on, and kind of "switch" herself back to English.
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