Stories are meant to put children to sleep and to wake up adults. Do you agree?

[Tarifa]

There's a phrase I heard recently, I don't know whose quote it is.

"Stories are meant to put children to sleep and to wake up adults."

Do you agree? Do stories (both in written or televised form) wake you up, make you think and allow you to put things in perspective? I think that the worst thing we can do as an adult is taking things for granted. Stories are an escape route into our imaginative world.

[Sunrising]

"Bedtime" stories are meant to send children to sleep, and we read them to children, but I don't think they are really meant for adults, but I think we all still like Walt Disney's fairy tales.

I Googled to search for the person who penned your phrase, but I didn't receive an answer, so unfortunately I can't name the person.

Recently I was travelling on a train, and a child must have dropped their book on the floor, and so I picked it up.

I had nothing better to do and I opened the book to page one, it was obvious meant for a 5 year old with mainly pictures.

I've not looked at a children's books for well, a few years now, when I was a child.

But like you say the book surprised me with the amount of information just on the first two pages, but I didn't proceed further because the guy opposite started a conversation with me, and we both exited the train at the same stop.

Having no children of my own I don't watch children's TV, but I agree the book did get me thinking lol.

[Sunrising]

As far as adult TV and stories are concerned, I haven't read a novel for years, and I only watch a film every now and then, so there is no escaping this world for me, I'm stuck with what I've got, but the TV does sometimes sends me to sleep lol.

[NathanDavis]

when I was a kid, stories didn't put me to sleep... they would keep me up at nights, my curiosity and imagination both, were way stronger than coffee... or sugar

so... just like people, not all stories or narratives are the same... nor are their intentions or purpose

perhaps, you're trying to describe what "critical thinking" would be, or some sort of introspection within ourselves that does reflect towards all around us, and from that point of view... no, that's more of rebellion and anti-establishment

more than anything, it is the "systems" that push the narratives and stories, and those are meant to control, to distract, to divide and to numb, which is way closer to put people's mind "to sleep" rather than "wake up"

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