So my friend and I have been discussing this a lot lately. We both vividly remember losing ourselves so completely in books as children, it was as though real life seemed far away.

I've recently taken up reading again and I've noticed the more books I read, the closer I get to that feeling. But it's more for moments here and there, never for long. Do any of you experience the total immersion I've described? I'd like to think that it wasn't just my childhood imagination and that with more practice and increasing my attention span (that technology has massively shortened) I will one day have that feeling again.

Is it possible?