immersion

Is it the same for you? I was remembering the dude called "Face" in "The A Team". Total character immersion was his stick and I wondered if he was going to come out of it. He would even select a character before the mission started which seemed a psychic choosing and necessary down the line.

Although I don't do character design, I do put myself in the room when I am imagining a house design or a piece of art. It seems essential to be in that "space" to explore the spiritual dimensions before I commit to physical form. And it is kind of out of whack with all this virtual reality, because I can fully realize an idea in a virtual form and be satisfied enough as to not desire to see it in physical form. Now I can imagine, sketch it flatly, draw it in 3d and walk around and through it. The drawing is not real but I can get enough cues to realize the great possibility of materialization. Easy on a desktop model, overwhelming engineering feat in sticks and stone.

Writers never seem to get this bent. They are used to visualizing a character and watching it come to life in the story. The extra layer of having to materialize a form in this dimension, this material plane is a great stress. I design a house, no I formulate the idea of a house, do a drawing of it. The first comments I get are "that's cool, what are you going to do with it?" and "are you going to build it?" Of course now I'm full of anguish, I do not have the means to materialize this idea. I feel a rush of urgency followed by a weight of inability. I move on to the next idea, the next design because it is easier and more economically sound to imagine.

Maybe we are all like this in our perspective roles, playing characters with all seriousness, immersed to the point no one can doubt our sincerity. They even hope for you, push you to the characters goal. Now I really don't care much if the thing becomes a pale physical reality, the glory is in having the vision, can you see what I am seeing. I try really hard to illustrate it so that you see it too. There is not enough time in one life to realize all the dreams. Don't you see dreaming is the reality? And we all take on the myths and legends and hero personalities, immersing ourselves to follow paths in guises, dipping our souls in paint to color our canvases uniquely.

Total character immersion is our stick and I wondered if we are going to come out of it. We even select our life's character before our mission started which seems a psychic choosing and necessary down the line.

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