• leadore@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    No, it isn’t. No more than concentrating on anything else is. It’s kind of sad that so few people read books anymore that it’s perceived as being like a trance. What about daydreaming or watching a movie or playing a video game? Are those trances or like drugs? I’d say those are at least as if not more escapist than reading a book.

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      I’m in a deep trance while I’m reading your comment. No, wait, I’m sitting on the toilet doom scrolling…