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Azera
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
3800 Posts
August 14 2011 01:53 GMT
#1
Hello everybody!

Have you ever read a book before? [hee hee] What goes through your mind when you read a book? Do you visualise something in your head or do you just accept the text as it is?

(eg. "Fold of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day." ........ uhh... whatever, okay.
Or do you imagine this [image loading]
or this?
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)

Whenever I read, there is a little movie, or clip that plays in my mind. I try to turn the text that I read into image, so it makes me read slower as I'am trying to visualise the text. Then there are times when I just cannot visualise the text because I don't understand the vocabulary or haven't seen what a "dreary day" is.

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JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
August 14 2011 01:58 GMT
#2
Well, for me, there's definitely visualization, but I read incredibly quickly anyway. My parents never thought TV was worth having when I was a kid, so I read a lot. As long as things are written coherently, I rip right through them.

Mind you, I only visualize where appropriate. If something is meant to be taken as pure data, that's what I'm doing.

And please don't tell me what I missed growing up without a TV. I didn't. Playing outside, riding bikes, and fishing when I was younger, plus old school computer games, then learning to build PCs, and doing paint and drywall for my uncle. TV wouldn't have beat any of that.
LML
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Germany1762 Posts
August 14 2011 02:11 GMT
#3
You missed out on Pokeman and Dragonball Z man, your childhood, a waste!
;P

I also read rather slow and visualize everything that I read, not in the details, I am just getting the scenery and if the author explains details about the clothing, I don't exactly care, there is a person for me in a room, hallway or whatever place the author gives.
LML
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
August 14 2011 02:20 GMT
#4
I never do spacial visualizations and occasionally it bites me when the author refers to the layout of the room later to describe the action.
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Azera
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
3800 Posts
August 14 2011 02:21 GMT
#5
On August 14 2011 11:20 heyoka wrote:
I never do spacial visualizations and occasionally it bites me when the author refers to the layout of the room later to describe the action.

I know! I HATE life when that happens to me!
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Herculix
Profile Joined May 2010
United States946 Posts
August 14 2011 02:23 GMT
#6
On August 14 2011 10:58 JingleHell wrote:
Well, for me, there's definitely visualization, but I read incredibly quickly anyway. My parents never thought TV was worth having when I was a kid, so I read a lot. As long as things are written coherently, I rip right through them.

Mind you, I only visualize where appropriate. If something is meant to be taken as pure data, that's what I'm doing.

And please don't tell me what I missed growing up without a TV. I didn't. Playing outside, riding bikes, and fishing when I was younger, plus old school computer games, then learning to build PCs, and doing paint and drywall for my uncle. TV wouldn't have beat any of that.


you missed out on nothing, tv was bad and now it's 10x worse.

i love books but tv destroyed my attention span for them, so i've only read like 10-20 when my internet dies for a really long time. i visualize almost everything, but it's rather quick, i don't sit back and meditate on my imagination or anything. my imagination is pretty active anyways, so it's not a problem for me to do that. i can imagine a situation out of almost nothing lol
ComaDose
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada10357 Posts
August 14 2011 02:23 GMT
#7
I often visualize but its more like i get a scene in my head then dont worry about it again untill the author goes in depth about setting again. and as i get nearer to the end of the book and i cant put it down i start reading faster and the visualization comes less often.
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Malgrif
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada1095 Posts
August 14 2011 02:25 GMT
#8
it's pretty much like a movie in my mind. sometimes i forget that i'm actually reading and think that it is a movie lol
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Yung
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States727 Posts
August 14 2011 02:25 GMT
#9
I generaly make a visual of what is said and a mix of places ive seen in dreams or places ive been into before. But to this day i still remember one so well, it was some goosebumps book about a comicbook. I can still see the warehouse that it was mainly based in today, even though i havnt read it in like 8 years.
turdburgler
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
England6749 Posts
August 14 2011 02:32 GMT
#10
due to being dead inside i dont visualise anything when reading a book ; /
Suddenly
Profile Joined January 2011
United States181 Posts
August 14 2011 02:51 GMT
#11
I do the same thing. I think it makes the experience more fun for me. I just like having that visual aspect. Granted there are certain scenes that don't work and my reading pace is slowed, but personally I think its worth it.

On August 14 2011 11:25 Malgrif wrote:
it's pretty much like a movie in my mind.


After a while it gets like this, where it just keeps running from scene to scene. I agree.
crate
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States2474 Posts
August 14 2011 02:59 GMT
#12
I visualize but because of how many words I don't actually read it's not uncommon for what I visualize to be plain wrong (I associate the wrong hair color or style with a lot of characters).

It's also somewhat hazy and undefined in almost all cases. I only create a detailed picture of a scene if I stop reading and decide to just figure out what that one scene looks like to me. I'll have faces but nothing else really pictured for most characters in most cases, for example ... if it's not what's being described in the current sentence generally there's just some sort of "placeholder" in the image in my mind.
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Iranon
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States983 Posts
August 14 2011 03:12 GMT
#13
Basically a movie, but much more involved, and much less specific. I don't think about visualizing strict details, but I almost always lose track of the world around me completely and just think of myself as existing as whatever the narration in the story is. I don't try to visualize what I'm reading, I just sit with a book on my lap and what the words on the page say is what's happening around me. When I close the book, it's a very weird sensation as the real world floods back in. I imagine that time stops in that other world, and it will start again when I start reading again. It's really awesome.
ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
August 14 2011 03:22 GMT
#14
I do the same thing crate. I visualize books as I read, but I don't try too hard for accuracy. If I read a detail that doesn't fit with my mental picture, I'll just update the image and keep reading, no big deal. I greatly prefer authors that can vividly depict a scene with as few words as possible because if I see two pages of text describing a room, fuck that shit I'm just imagining a generic room and skimming the description.
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
ligas
Profile Joined May 2011
81 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-14 03:36:44
August 14 2011 03:28 GMT
#15
have you tried audiobooks? there might be a an audiobook version of what youre reading. perhaps that could alleviate some of the confusion on how a certain passage should be understood. it's also very convenient.

edit

oh youre reading jane eyre id suggest getting an audiobook with a voice actor that has a female english accent.
ZaphoD[42]
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany16 Posts
August 14 2011 03:30 GMT
#16
I always vizualize when I read a book and i can even remember the story of a book like a movie without reading it at the moment. The easier it is to forget that you are actually reading the better the book I think.
On the other hand a character from my favourite book (guess what^^) is described with three arms but when i read it the first time i fear i skipped that part and whenever i reread it i get totally confused for a minute because i refuse to alter my imagination.
Additionally when im tired or something similar my vizualization becomes less accurate and suddenly there are holes in the picture or something like that. I know I should stop reading when this happens =)
Phant
Profile Joined August 2010
United States737 Posts
August 14 2011 03:33 GMT
#17
I used to like to read, than I had to go through 12 years of English through public schools, now I am completely ruined.

Perhaps one day I will enjoy reading again...
KhAmun
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1005 Posts
August 14 2011 03:37 GMT
#18
I really don't try to do anything, I just take it in, it typically does turn into an image, unless it is very clever or intricate language, then I think of it in a different context.
hifriend
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
China7935 Posts
August 14 2011 03:53 GMT
#19
Yeah I always visualize a ton, sometimes I even stop after a page and just think for a couple of minutes or read the page twice just to get a mental image.

Then I go see the movie and it shatters my world view.
ClysmiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2192 Posts
August 14 2011 04:25 GMT
#20
I'm same as you. I visualize each sentence... which makes me a suuuuuper slow reader.

But I don't really read a lot lol
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