My Two Reasons for Reading

I've noticed that I read (watch YouTube videos, etc.) for two main reasons:

1) To learn something.

2) To savour an atmosphere.

I get annoyed at myself for the second motive. What do I ultimately get out of it? That's what I ask myself.

Recently I became very drawn to the whole idea of "campus horror". I read a horror novel set in a university and watched two horror films set in a university. I wanted to savour the atmosphere. But then I feel a bit guilty, thinking: what do I take away from it? What did I get from it? How am I enriched or improved?

Of course, you can both learn and savour an atmosphere at once. Sometimes I start reading a particular author or blogger (or just a book) to learn something, but then revisit it to savour the atmosphere. I can't seem to liberate myself from this preoccupation with atmosphere, and I'm not even sure I want to.