I think this is perfectly normal. How else would it be possible to empathise with other people and perspectives? It would not be possible at all.
Ooo that's a thought that never occured to me. I do believe you are right though, it makes since to me that the ability to emphasize comes from the ability to live out another life inside of our own. Everyday people just not noticing it because it usually only happens in fractions of a second.
And your right, I've never gotten into novel writing myself, but I have heard famous authors who describe exactly what you are saying here. It would also explain why some actors get so in character that they struggle to get out.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. You gave me a lot to think about as well. And I'll definitely check out your article , and probably that book as well.
Thank you for your appreciative response, I am pleased very much when I can surprise someone else :)
Often, we are not really aware of such things that are so self-evident. The most impressive abilities of us humans belong to us like our skin and are so normal that we hardly notice them. Unless you work with them like all writers, screenwriters or even Gestalt psychologists do. In my training, a very exciting module dealt precisely with this, with the stage that every human being enters in his or her inner being, as you say, in just a fraction of a second, and where every situation in which, for example, a decision has to be made, is played by the various characters of this inner stage. We trainees were asked by our teacher to imagine a certain scene in which a spontaneous decision had to be made and we were asked to write down which different voices and arguments appeared on the stage. I found the results fascinating and have never forgotten it since. The same scene, the same location, the same person has the possibility to vary here at any time.
Because this is so, because the human being is capable of taking countless perspectives, it is sometimes so difficult to be asked to make a fundamental decision about something. I therefore find principles helpful to have an orientation, but they become a shackle if one wants to emphasise or even force a "one for all rule" too much. The schizophrenic mind knows that this is not possible; opposed to this is the part that believes in the idea of the one-dimensional and is therefore prone to error.
Have you read the article?