Using fMRI scans on 19 lonely fans of “Game of Thrones”, researchers discovered that they processed their favorite characters similarly to real friends in their brains. This suggests that lonelier …::In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain that is active when thinking about others, a new study found.Researchers scanned the brains of people who were fans of “Game of Thrones” while they thought about various characters in the show and about their real frien…
I am not that lonely, but I have imaginary friends who are fictional characters from books and actual people from history. I talk to them in my head when bored, like when folding laundry or driving. I wonder what that would look like in an MRI.
Look at r/tulpas on reddit (no lemmy community as of now)
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I can’t tell of that community is a joke or a mental health issue.
It doesn’t look like a joke to me…
thanks for link
I’d look at online gaming.
Classic MMORPGs seem like they would be right up this alley.