Weird feelings after movies?

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If I really enjoyed the movie, the sensory overload is not too bad to handle. But when I didn't like it, or it upset me, it can take days for the after affects to wear off. "Requiem For A Dream" really disturbed and upset me. I wish I didn't watch it. Last night, I watched a strange version of "Alice In Wonderland," made in the sixties. I felt like I had been on some type of hallucinogen. Awful. It took a long time for this movie to wear off, and I had a nightmare when I went to bed.

Ichi the Killer worked wonders in that department. I felt awesome afterwards.
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Not recommended if you don't enjoy feeling weird and a little cold after a film.

Books, Movies, Dreams ... It's like I'm easily hypnosised. Why would some people be more prone to lapse from reality.

I've walked out of movie theaters feeling very disoriented. I can't put my finger on it.

It happens to me a lot, if it's a film or show that I really like and find really interesting. I don't get any physical feelings from it (Unless a certain thing happens to one of the characters that for some reason gets me very excited, and no, it's not anything inappropriate), but I do feel like I've been sucked into it and afterwards I'm still thinking about it and sometimes real life doesn't feel that real.

I am not sure if this is exactly the same but I find sometimes when I watch movies that I wish real life were like a movie in some ways because movies are better, or clearer, than real life. In a movie, I find that I understand better what people are going to do next, or what would be a good way to go about things, or things make more sense. In real life, I am sometimes surprised by what people do/say but in movies less so. It happens with books also, I find I can see better what the next thing is in the book, so I am less surprised by things in the story in a movie or a book, whereas real life sometimes leaves me a little surprised because I never imagined people would say or do a certain thing until they have done it, and then I feel like wow I had no idea they were gonna go that way!

Does that make sense?

I don't think that is the same thing exactly as what you said, but anyway, this is how I feel at times.

I don't feel shaky or the physical things you mention, but I do tend to come away feeling like I'm still immersed in that "world" I've just been experiencing, yeah. If a film really engaged me emotionally and viscerally I feel like I walk away with it still wrapped around me, and it's strange to adjust to the real world on my way home.

Long ago I knew someone who, when I've looked back on my memories of him now, I feel that he may have very likely been on the spectrum, but back then I didn't know anything about it even in regards to myself (it was 1993). This guy used to talk about he wished that movie theaters had a quiet room where you could go to "come down" from the experience of seeing the movie! He said he often wanted to take some time to recover from the experience of a movie, to sit and think about it, to readjust to the real world before going out into it and going home.

A few days ago, I watched The Truman Show, in which the title character learns that his whole life has been a lie. Although I'm a fan of this movie, it makes me paranoid after the fact.