this veers off topic from the current discussion, but is a good story that kinda falls under the topic of emotional attatchment to Anime.

My passion is cycling and I am an avid racer, this puts me in a unique category (called dumbasses by most) that enjoy suffering and go out of my way to push my physical limits and hurt to the point that something gives. ie I've had the misfortune of breaking a rib and my back while pushing myself to hard on a steep climb (things break under too much stress). Anyways, during races, where the pain is always the worst, i've found myself in an interesting position where my body wants to give up, and feels completely out of energy, but i know that its important to my team that i stay in the race and finish well. What i do in these situations is rely on my training by forcing myself to think of times where i've been in more pain and suffered through worse circumstances. These reminders come to me *EXACTLY* like the flashbacks we see and love in Naruto during a battle. You know the ones, where _insert_character_here_ is about to lose than mentally flashes back to some event or incident that rejuvinates him completely and he/she ends up kicking some serious ass. Seroiously, during these flashbacks while racing, for a moment (or many) it seems like im back doing whatever climb or ride or even race that im remebering and then i'm suddenly shot back into real time rejuvinated. It's an awesome sensation.

So that would be my emmotional attatchment to anime, i've had the pleasure of experiencing flashbacks just like we see. Does neone else have ne similiar experiences?