"I have learned a lifetime of experience and heartfelt moment
   from things that aren't even real".

   I think that's why I love fandom - all fandom. Lifetimes of
   experiences are written into characters by mere mortals;
   creative writers who have whole Multiverses buzzing around in
   their brains.

   They may be fiction, but the experiences they share that you
   _relate to_ become YOUR experiences. YOU fought the battles. YOU
   caught the bad guys. YOU snuck around dark corners and had
   powers and abilities that the 3D Life you might not.

   They live inside you. They guide you. They teach you. They speak
   to you.

   You don't HAVE to do these things in your 3D self; you've
   already done them by UNDERSTANDING someone else who DID. It
   doesn't matter whether their experiences came from an anime or
   somebody's grandpa who went through a war; the moment you
   understand THEM and how they feel and how they think... their
   lives become yours. Part of you is them. Part of them is you.
   They live in YOU now.

   My fandom was/is Doctor Who. I've seen the classic series, the
   new series, never missed an episode.

   Since I was 8 years old watching it with my grandmother.

   Because of this, somewhere inside of me, I've lived thousands of
   years, had impossible experiences... and I can relate what I
   learned, heard and felt from fiction to ME and to everything
   around me.

   If you've experienced thousands of lifetimes from stories, I
   believe, in some way, you become thousands of lifetimes old.
   People in 'real life' that remind you of fictional people - you
   _understand them_ because - you've met them before, or some
   version of them in a story.

   I believe that sometimes fiction is more real than the planet we
   walk on and the people we see and talk to each day.

   I love science, but this is one of the areas that science
   completely misses: Stories. Imagination. We can contain the
   whole Universe in our brain, even if the physical Universe
   doesn't fit in there. All we have to do is understand it.
   Then... it fits. Somehow... it fits. I've run out of words on
   this and wish I could find a few perfect words that say it all.

   Wait... YOU did, already:

   "I have learned a lifetime of experience and heartfelt moment
   from things that aren't even real". -Maxx Davis

   I just wrote an essay based on your words. :D* thank you :)
   Original Context of quote: "The idea contained in that perfect
   set of words is so strong that it makes somebody really _think_
   and go, "Wow.. that's me right there". Or, "omg that just
   changed my life!" A few words. A few powerful words" i agree
   with all of your quote, but the one that stuck out to me was
   this. actually the reason that i showed this to you is because
   of just that! I find my self to relate to L, even on a personal
   level being as L and i both have insomnia, its just kind of
   funny how we learn so much and we gain the respect of those who
   don't really exist... the thing about everything is that it was
   created with a creativity so intense that people can relate, the
   things that you watch, see, feel, just hoping its real when
   really its, not... I have learned a lifetime of experience and
   heartfelt moment from things that, aren't even real... and i can
   already say that that goes for all of us that feel, we all have
   some one ti relate to weather it be reality or fiction. The
   theme song as well holds true to this, "My dreams have turned to
   reality". -Maxx Davis