I think it's actually far more interesting in psychological terms: that people have rich fantasy lives inside them that they don't always get the chance to express. (I'm with the Doctor on how wonderful human beings are!) I'm in favour of people having vivid fantasy lives – provided they acknowledge that they are fantasy. To go down any other route is to tip into delusion. To subscribe to 'supernatural' explanations is to deny the splendour of the powers of the human imagination.
I do wonder if there will be a decline in this sort of thing now that people can get to play with 'avatars' in things like Second Life, to exercise their imaginary personæ?
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Date: 2008-02-11 10:04 am (UTC)I do wonder if there will be a decline in this sort of thing now that people can get to play with 'avatars' in things like Second Life, to exercise their imaginary personæ?