Afraid to Dive

Fictional, or narrative reality has been surrounding people from the very cradle and accompanying them during their whole life for generations. Media, literature, cinema, video games, even music creates and forms informational environment, laying down certain tastes and values, and also leaves an imprint on the child no worse than the parents themselves. Since our brain doesn't perceive a difference between the real and artfully simulated, often feelings towards a fictional character can be as bright and sincere as feelings for a real person. From an early age, children, under affection of these feelings not only create imaginary friends, but also find role models in the characters and archetypes, trying to idolize and even imitate them. It's logically to assume that every properly accurate fictional character is able to cause deep feelings of any spectrum on a subconscious and associative level. The concept of waifu and husbando is built upon it: the characters who are wit

How often do you hear about that accidental reference you made? How often do you stumble upon the mentions of certain works in the cinema, video games, and literature? I bet that often enough, since the modern "storytelling industry", being a part of the entertaining pop culture machine, is built on the references and intertextuality, and these "inner messages" are no longer something special or new. Reference is a simplified name of reminiscence , one of the forms of mention, along with the quote. Reminiscence implies an appeal to the images of the past in art, expressing in such forms as an allusion, an homage or a tribute, and prototyping. A quotation without specifying the author can belong to the reminiscence, but it is more something like an intermediate stage. Since reminiscence does have a creative nature, its elements have always been found in human, mostly informal communication: examples are idioms, catch phrases, folk characters, and the folklore