Suspended Disbelief

Motivation

"Suspended. Belief."

These are two words that have always struck me as strange.

Analysis

When we go watch a movie, we think of the movie as real.

Do we really?

Do we have to think, consciously, to convince ourselves that something is real,

or

Do we have to think, consciously, to decide that something is not real?

The way I see it, we automatically see everything as reality. Something being not real is a higher level concept. 

So if we just sit and look, that is belief in reality.

It takes more thinking to not believe in reality, to see the context, that we may be in a cinema, and images on the big screen are not real - it's a movie.

Conclusion

Believing is the norm. Disbelief is an action that comes afterwards.

Thinking consciously should be called suspended belief.  "Suspended disbelief" is the state humans are in, by default. There is nothing to suspend.