“There’s a feeling I love almost more than anything: the feeling of sinking into a good book while the world around me fades away. My breathing slows, my shoulders drop, and the mental chatter in the back of my mind goes quiet.

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Reading uses some of the oldest circuitry in the human brain. For most of our evolutionary history, we were readers - just not of books. We read animal tracks in mud, storm patterns in clouds, danger signals in the rustle of leaves.”

Interesting read on reading:
https://bigthink.com/mind-behavior/how-reading-books-regulates-your-nervous-system/

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