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I must say, it is a little creepy. I think we are all susceptible to it, being human, the way our brain processes information.

I dream a lot, every night, intensely and vividly, and there have been moments where after I wake up and later in the day, I find myself thinking of some snippet of it as if it were reality, and I have to shake my head internally when I realize that thing was only part of a dream.

And being an avid amateur historian, I see people who think of movies as narrations of reality. It is why I sometimes get irritable when I watch a movie with a leftist bent.

It is an absolute issue that there are people who cannot distinguish entertainment from reality.

My wife gave me a stocking stuffer for Christmas a few years back called “The Sons of Liberty” because she knows I am intested in the Revolutionary War era.

When I watched it, I became so incensed because it wasn’t just wrong, which happens in even good and entertaining movies, it was a fantastical fabrication where Samuel Adams was a guy who was portrayed as a 30 year old hipster (think Captain Jack Sparrow from “Pirates of the Caribbean”) in black clothes jumping off roofs onto British soldiers in Boston with a tomahawk in each hand....in reality, he was a somewhat furtive guy in his early to mid forties who was most at home in the smoky back rooms of taverns talking politics.

I watched one or two episodes (It was a series by the History Channel) and I was so incensed I threw the thing in a drawer and it sat there for a few years. But over time I kept thinking of it...and after doing some research online, found in an interview with the Producer that it was never intended to be a historically accurate portrayal of anyone, but was wholly for entertainment purposes! (I know-I thought it was the “History Channel” which I never watch anyway, since I don’t have cable and don’t watch television!)