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Originally Posted by inavalan
It's like watching a movie (reading a book, playing a video game, ...). We get engrossed in the plot, forget who we are, then live vicariously through the movie's characters.
If somebody turns on the light we pop out of trance, remember who we are, and why we are watching this movie (a.k.a. get enlightened).
Our subconscious can turn on the light, so we should nicely ask it to do that.
It works with phone ringing too ... 
Pretty much as you wrote in your opening post. |
Spot on.
Of course, when watching a movie, to fully experience it, we need to engage in what is known as "willing suspension of disbelief", else it is just not the same experience. Some will watch a horror movie while keeping the lights on, while others will darken the room and take the phone off the hook for the duration. I suppose it depends on how real and deep of an experience they wish to have, and whether they really want to see how it ends.
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