My answer, based on a week of total immersion, has to be a firm yes.
At its best, reading results in a change of consciousness, a total immersion.
He believed that she was ready for total immersion in a hot zone.
"There must be total immersion for youngsters," read his campaign policy paper on education.
He taught his students by example the satisfaction that comes from total immersion in our science.
Instead, a program of total immersion in study was encouraged for the younger generation.
He predicted that movie sound would increasingly be used to create a sense of total immersion in the story.
Short of discovery, the pleasure for the participants is the total immersion.
It's important to say that total immersion can have its downside.
For me, the trauma of total immersion was the best incentive to learning.