[swayvil]

Getting sucked into a dream-world/story/abstraction is a feature, not a bug.

It's an attention-conservation strategy. Looking at an abstraction takes less precious attention than looking at reality. And abstractions are so malleable, so useful.

You can do it with a page of text. You can do it with no technological augmentation at all, just thinking.

It's so easy and useful that it's become a habit. The border between dream and reality is so blurred now that we've forgotten that there's a difference.

Maybe this is what the Buddhists call "Samsara".