"Real"

I think that the realness of a game to the point where it meshes with a persons reality is not out of the question . I think this is especially true in younger children as I have worked with children between the ages of 6 and 12 who will talk about video games that they play at home and they talk about acting out the moves and they reference the characters as if they were real people they interacted with daily. I think that to a child the realness of a video game can be equated with how real the easter bunny or santa clause is. I think that the realness is there and that the fantasy can interject itself into reality. I think in a sense its like dreaming... I can speak from experience that I have woken up from a very vivid dream that seemed so real that for a brief moment I may confuse details of it with reality.



Going in a little different of a direction though I think that a person can also assume the persona that their character has. I think that a person could feel empowered as their character or a range of other emotions. I think that sometimes for people it's nice to escape who they are and take on this alter ego and even take it to maybe a bit of an extreme and interjecting this persona into their everyday life. And whose to say that one persons reality and conciousness is wrong and anothers is right.