Think back to the last time you played make-believe. Compare it to reading a book or enjoying some other narrative art-form. Are they completely the same? What are some similarities? Differences?
Similarities: Similarities consist of, in my opinion, "suspending disbelief," in the sense that one must pretend, and the best imaginations create an entire game or world of make believe, because the better the logistics, the more emotional satisfaction one can derive from the experience.
Differences: These seem to lie in the length of imagination taken to produce a proper and entertaining world of make believe. For example, many books or other works of fiction are successful because they can greatly assist in the configuration of your imaginative processes, through logistics of the make believe world in the book, characters that display very human like traits, and even imagery. While these are provided as a good base in many works of fiction, simply playing make believe requires one's mind to do all of the leg work. Whether that is more rewarding or not is up to interpretation, however, the differences are evident as far as the length one must go through, creating the world in make believe, and simply playing in one in a well written novel.
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