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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mrpopstar" data-source="post: 7390155" data-attributes="member: 25352">Narrative immersion in storytelling inspired narrative transportation theories in psychology. We can measure transportation into a narrative world by observing a failure to notice surroundings (passage of time or unfolding events), or other participatory responses that are shaped through absorption (strong emotions or desires to engage/communicate within the narrative). It has long been recognized as the key mechanism through which storytelling shapes us as human beings, and it seems quite obvious (only to me?) that system qualities which do anything but serve the narrative have the potential to challenge immersion if viewed through this understanding.It's a very simple byproduct of language and its limitations.I've been nosing around EN World and familiarizing myself with the "contentions of immersion," and it has stood out to me that immersion is something referenced in first-person terms. You mention some hugely successful reading experiences. Does it challenge your immersion when narratives are relayed in third-person perspective as opposed to first?</blockquote>