Role playing is when people assume a role and try to "play" it, or act as they imagine someone in that role would be. Some people have to role play to survive in their life, because they don't know how to "be themselves". Some people don't delude themselves by role playing, but instead do it as a safe expression of their ShadowSide. Some people role play as a technique to facilitate learning, brainstorming, and creative problem solving of social situations.