That is, if we are watching something that might apply to our character....do we start feeling it as our character?
I think it does.
My primary character, in general, is based on time travel. A scientist who goes more and more native as the years and the trips to the past goes on. Hard to say how it started, maybe because I started going to TRF in the early nineties when I was in a sci fi club, maybe because I have a heavy influence of post NBC but pre movie ST book reading, but it is there.
Things past that just build on it. CMDF, Sliders, Otherworld, Fantastic Journey, Westworld, and so forth.
I'm not going tomorrow, to Sherwood, because sickness during the week insists that I finish recovery and catch up with all the things during the week that I put aside to get well.
But I feel it. I feel it as I watch "Timelines" tonight, a random choice of a movie that is making me feel what it may be like to go back in the past even though for renfest, it is ideal. I feel it to be part of a science team when there is one in orbit and when I have been part of others in the past.
Subject wise, it may be ideal, but it is not the best choice of movies.......given the way my fantasies go.
But nevertheless, watching that movie now, with what could be tomorrow but won't be, I am feeling very connected to it now.
Interesting idea, shall have to ponder it more