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Originally Posted by banjobama
I sometimes see a movie in my head, but not all the time. Like other people said, I "absorb" the story as I read it more than I see every little detail played out. I read the words and get flashes in my mind. Once in a while, a scene will really saturate my mind and I'll see everything, but that is time consuming.
I consider myself an excellent reader, and it doesn't mean that I see the book, cover to cover, as I read it.
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I think this is about the best way to describe it for me.
I find most people read the words. That's what they get out of it.
I simply "absorb" the book. I get the story without consciously noticing the words, pretty much. From what I gather from research, I read in paragraphs or half-pages, basically, rather than word-by-word, or in lines.
Think absorbing the story of a movie without the images. I'm not a 3 dimensional thinker. I have trouble imagining in 3D. I don't think I could visualize at the speed at which I read. It'd be like watching a movie in super fast forward - I read a couple of pages a minute.
I'm not reading the words at a conscious level,and I just "fall into" the book. Any book that I can't fall into...I kind of bounce of it. Old English, reading plays, poetry, etc gives me trouble for that reason...I kind of bounce off of it.
So as far as being "in" the story, rather than reading the words: yes. Not reading the words.
As far as actually visualizing it, like watching a TV picture? No. Half the time I'd likely have trouble telling you what certain characters looked like, beyond a basic piece or two of info.