Your Brain on Fiction EC

This article opened my eyes to the possibilities of reading that I had not yet considered. When we are reading a novel that is dealing with multiple sensory details, our brains are percieving those interactions in the book as if they were actually happening in real life. Our brains are referring to the last time we had experienced whatever is being explained, and trys to replicate that by stimulating our brains. Reading novels allows us to be more successful in interacting with others because reading novels is actually putting our minds into a sort of virtual reality! This improvement in social interaction in turn leads us to being more academically successful by interacting more positively with our teachers, class mates, employees and employers.