I wonder if one large reason people enjoy eating food while watching fantastical things happen on screens is because it reminds us of being stuck in our dreams while food was funneled into us through a tube directly into our stomachs before birth. How abstract would those dreams have been with no reality to base them off of? I'm sure that since one big function of dreams is to prepare for obstacles that come about when conscious enough that I think there's a chance some baseline monkey survival situations are still hard coded into those dreams.
Things ranging all the way from avoiding falls from great heights and avoiding snake-like figures may be the kind of stuff that shows up in prenatal dreams, potentially pointing out a reason why people enjoy looking at action while eating food because it may harken us back to those heavily abstracted prenatal dreams hard coded into us for the function of preparing us for survival in the wild. Perhaps since before birth we would have no notion of what it would be like to move around even in our dreams we'd be watching someone/something else from a floating point in space and learning? Other things would be running from abstracted snake-like figures or having fights. Blob-like things would probably have been friends while pointy or slithery things would probably have been things to avoid.
On a similar yet simultaneously wildly unrelated note - does the prenatal baby's perception of what their mother is before birth mirror the common person's perception of living under an omnipresent deity? Perhaps we as humans are all collectively in the prenatal dream of a god inside the womb of another only to be birthed when all potential human perspectives are had? In that sense the potential base monkey survival mechanisms hard coded into our prenatal dreams would be analogous to the survival mechanisms of a god requiring an omnipresent understanding of existence before birth. I'm only theorizing here. Just like Michael from The Office I may not be superstitious, just a little stitious.