Are stories just extensions of ego?

[NorthNow]

A book, a movie, a video game? 
 

I hear comparisons all the time, “life is like a movie”, well what are our egos the extension of? 

[Zigzag Idiot]

Some would say our uncontrolled imagination.

[JayG84]

Have you read The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell? It's a good place to start. 

Or check out Leo's video on The Hero's Journey.

Basically, stories are the ego pointing at itself. They're just metaphors for the recognition, struggle, and desolution of the ego.

[Jacobsrw]

3 hours ago, NorthNow said:

A book, a movie, a video game? 
 

I hear comparisons all the time, “life is like a movie”, well what are our egos the extension of? 

Life and the entire reel from which the mind constructs of it is but a story. A story created by the mind to entertain the mind.

This may sound nihilistic but when you really conceive of it directly you are afforded the opportunity to detach from stories and create them at will. You seek that life is nothing but a story created from the infinite potentiation of nothingness.

My first mystical experience rudely showed this to me. Extremely powerful.

[Nahm]

@NorthNow

You’re story telling now. The one about the ego. 

[Forestluv]

@NorthNow Imagine a person is telling you a story in Chinese. What is your relationship with the story? What is his relationship with the story?