Honestly I don't think I could ever do that. I think the only way I can enjoy something is by going through the process of spending a lot of time thinking about whatever I'm watching or after I've watched it. Like the longer time I spend thinking, the more enjoyable it is, so time is an essential part of the enjoyment. That's the weird thing about this "the matrix" style idea of uploading information to the brain in an instant - can you get the same enjoyment if you don't spend a lot of time on it that feels like a long time?!marvingray wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 8:27 amHonestly, it's a good thing to narrow interests as long as you're enjoying what you're watching and only widen if you feel stagnation or boredom. It's literally impossible to even come close to watching everything out there, after all.
I hear a lot of younger people only watch "recap" channels where they explain shows or movies from start to finish so they don't have to watch them, that's the kind of stuff that blows that mind...like how short can our attention spans eventually get?
Maybe one day we can go into a trance-like state and upload and enjoy an entire movie, directly into our brains, while only 1 minute passes in the real world.
But tbh, it's getting harder to do that, as the brain does get bored of things or things feel stale, so I have had a down period for a couple months or so now where I have been way more passive but that's for another topic I guess. The brain is really like a bitch sometimes.