Many of the stories read so far have involved the main character allowing himself/herself to be swept away by the constant internal desire to fulfill what they initially set out to do, even if it's void of all logic and reason. There is a clearly defined separation of logic in The Yellow Wallpaper, where the husband doctor is trying to cure his wife of the mental sickness she is exhibiting and she is locked in a room just like she is locked in her brain. This separation is also clear in the Haunting of Hill House, where the narrator's pursuit of freedom leads her blindly to stay at the house.

This clear separation between following the desires of the idle mind and logic and reason makes it extremely difficult for me as a reader to connect with these characters and their encounters with the supernatural. It is too easy to dismiss the events that happen and label them as something that occurs only to those with mental illnesses. The TV show, The Walking Dead, is as popular as it is, because it combines the psychological with the logical, making the possibility of living through a zombie apocalypse extremely relatable in that regard. As the class transitions away from the psychological, I feel this idea of the supernatural will be much easier to grasp.