Putting ourselves in the shoes of people facing ordeals

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Do you like reading about scary things and watching them on TV? I do but there's that one thing: I am always subconsciously putting myself in the shoes of the person who is facing the ordeal I'm reading about/watching, imagining it's me. And I don't think I need to explain that it isn't a pleasant thing to think of. Recently I was watching this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19cnaQe3rJ8 and although I am a big fan of movies with people who meet accidents in, I always was; the scene in which that woman gets boiled alive, made a huge and very unpleasant impression on me as I imagined it was myself on whom the vat of boiling water poured.

I don't like shoes. I'd rather go barefoot.

I also prefer barefeet to shoes.

I don't explicitly like or dislike scary stuff. If it's a good book or movie then I'll like it, and if it's a bad one then I won't. But I definitely don't have the issue of putting myself in the other person's shoes (or bare footprints as the case may be). The only thing that bothers me is if violence is extremely realistic in a movie. For example, "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill" had such absurd and unrealstic violence that it didn't bother me one bit, despite the gore. But I can't watch a film where it is realistic, even if it is less graphic than Terentino.

I've always loved the part in Titanic where the ship is about to sink and everyone's holding on for dear life. People think I like the movie because of the love story, but they're wrong.

Horror or pointlessly violent movies I don't like.

I do that too! I have always been obsessed with disasters...especially plane crashes and national emergencies like 9/11. I always put myself in the shoes of the victims or people who have lived through that ordeal. It's weird because I am an empathic person and I feel sorry for them, but feel excited and thrilled when I imagine the scenario. I love being scared.

I don't enjoy being scared anymore. Sometimes I even manage to stop bad dreams by realizing, "Hey, this is is a dream, I don't have to take this," and then changing the story or waking up.