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This talk about what goes on in someone's mind while they read is pretty interesting, and I had to think about it a lot while writing my novel. A character in the book has the ability to speed read, absorbing text at an incredible rate with full comprehension, with the maddening caveat that the knowledge gained in this way will disappear completely overnight, leaving only the memory of what he was thinking about while he read the words, separated from the original context, like an annotated book with the main text erased, leaving only the annotations.
Personally, I don't usually see what I'm reading as a movie, but I do picture most of it in my mind as images or short 'movie clips'. I see what the author is trying to describe, filling in details as needed. Reading these posts gives me some insight into why some authors use plain talk to describe a scene, while others focus on using flowery descriptive prose. The prose writers see the words and how best to string them together, while the plain talkers see the scene and try to describe what they see. I'm not trying to generalize too much, just making a quick observation based on what I've read here.
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