Bottom line: I LOVE to read. It calms me down, I forget about whatever, and I'm THERE. I'm no longer here; at least, my head isn't anywhere close to where I am.
I've been reading since before kindergarten. By the time I was in third grade, I had read five Harry Potter books.
Now I can't tell what parts of me are real and what parts I snatched from a book. The way I talk, the words I say, the way I feel... description, sight, sound, it's like I relate everything to something I've already read. Traits I have are EXACTLY like that one character from this book, that book, and I developed them AFTER I read the book.
It's really spooky. Because