The Mind Navigates Through a World Without Limitation

Part of the reason stories, music and movies move us is because we're allowed to change our parameters on these things. When you think about it, we never fast forward through a movie so that we can quickly check off the box and complete it. Why do we have to retreat to this microcosm of our ideal world where we're not rushed? The answer is always us, it's internal, but the question is why?