When you have a memory (for instance, you remember walking down the street from your house to the office this morning) — it seems perfectly...

Woody Allen's satirical short story "The Kugelmass episode"[1] has an unattractive, middle-aged literature professor jump into...

What is excellence? Part of the answer lies in an analysis of what it means to excellently engage in a practice. (You can engage in a practi...

After a day-long hiking trip in the Ragged Mountains near Charlottesville, Virginia, Augustus Bedloe has an astonishing tale to tell: was it...

Let's look closer into memories. In the video excerpt from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire we have seen what we might call a trip i...

I have written that fiction that includes passage into an instance of unreality highlights the perspective of the passenger, thus emphasizin...

In the extracts from passage scenes in movies that I have given in my recent postings, I have identified a technique which I called shifted ...

Let's begin to clarify some notions. I have introduced the idea of traveling into an instance of unreality, such as the fictional world ...

We have looked at fictions and memories; let's now examine something you get when these two are combined: dreams. Already in 1984,[1]...

Let's widen the scope a little. The spectrum of unreal worlds is not restricted to those created in fiction. Harry Potter (in Harry P...