> Allowing the experience to wash over you without analyzing it while experiencing gets harder. I agree, and I didn't realise the extent to which this was happ

> Allowing the experience to wash over you without analyzing it while experiencing gets harder. I agree, and I didn't realise the extent to which this was happening with me until a few years ago, when one of my children got interested in performance magic. Because he was young, I went to various magic conventions and meetings with him, and listened to a lot of people talking about the practice of magic as well as its technical aspect. Turns out, a big preoccupation of magicians is how hard it is to get people to just watch the magic without them being distracted by trying to figure-out how its done. If anything, its harder for magicians than film directors because what they do clearly does merit disbelief. Anyway, I learned that it really is ok to just watch a difficult film and experience the feelings that it produces without picking them apart. As an analytical person this was both a relief and a learning experience for me. (Also, 2001 is an excellent film.)