Fushigi Yuugi Review Followup

After watching shows, it usually takes a day or a nap for the real feelings to kick in.  My brain has to process what it was that I saw.  It's odd, but I get attached to things very easily.  I feel what the characters are feeling and it's one of the reasons I stay away from things that are depressing or dark.  At first it was just any other show but after sleeping on it, it became something more.  In the show, the first thing that affected me was when Tamahome was captured and Miaka is able to see him through the mirror.  I stopped on that episode and went to sleep.  The next morning I woke up in an absolute daze.  I was giddy and loopy.  I swear, I was intoxicated with the series.  The next day I saw the episode with the windmill scene and the next morning I was craving man flesh.  It doesn't ever effect me right then when I'm watching it but later.
What I realized was that the show was about a girl who falls in love with fictional people and fictional people fall in love with her.  Yesterday I saw the 2nd OVA where Tasuki finds out that deep inside he really did like Miaka.  His scenes struck me so hard that he jumped up to the top favorite character spot.  I can't stop drawing him.  I can't stop thinking of him sitting in the water, touching his lip in confusion.  What's interesting about the idea of the series is the love between a character in a story and a real human.  After that I really began to understand the heartbreak that the characters felt, and the heartbreak that people feel when they finish a book. When you think about it, stories are real.  They exist in space and time therefore they must be real.  There are very real things about the characters as well.  In order for them to be written, some one took aspects from people they know or of things that we have heard about people doing and they combined them to make a "character."  If you think of something, imagine something or say something, doesn't it become some what of a reality.  when you read or watch a show you are going through an experience.  While we may say that something was "just a book." they still effect you as if you were really there.  It only becomes ten times more influential to you and your life when you start adding to the universe.  Things like fanart or fanfiction only solidify your experience with that image on the screen or page in the book. That's the magic of media.
Many things in our society are accepted as real when they are only an idea.  Just a phantom thought that we've all agreed to accept.  The color coding of blue for boys and pink for girls.  The role of humans is to get into a successful career, own a house, have a perfect family.  When did these things become the "reality."  Culture and language were once only a thought from some one the was built off of by others.
So what's my point?  That the books we read, the characters we attach ourselves to and the journeys that we go on with them are all  "real."  You cry when some one dies, you feel attached to the characters, you grow to love the world and for a brief time, it becomes part of your reality.  The sad thing though is that there is no way for you to directly interact with the characters or environment.  The characters can not think for themselves unless you think for them. On the other hand, are any of us thinking for ourselves?  Our family, culture, peers all influence and mold us into who we are.  There is no such thing as an original idea because ideas are only pieces of knowledge and other ideas packed into something that only looks new.  We are just characters being written by our culture, norms and expectations of others.
Nothing exists in a bubble, every thing is connected and every thing exists in reality.
Other videos from this awesome guy about things like this that you should just shut up and watch
Miku is more real than pop stars.
Evangalian is separate from the creator.

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Update
They just did an episode on this entire idea 3 weeks after I wrote this.  good grief.