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Originally Posted by teadonkey
Also - This is just a thought I've had recently. I think that people who REALLY love reading are the visual learners/thinkers. Y'know how teachers are always splitting people in groups of visual/auditory/whatever? I don't really know all the types, I've never put much stock into it. I find I learn best when I do all kinds of learning. But my point is, to really enjoy a book, you'd have to be able to visualize the world being set up for you. Otherwise, you're just staring at a ton of letters and who wants to do that? So... not everyone is made to be a reader?
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Reading isn't only a visual experience.
Everyone's sensorium is oriented differently. We perceive the world through an assortment of senses (13, the last I looked), but one will predominate.
Vision is my primary sense. I think visually. See things in terms of visual patterns. In some cases, books don't work for me because the pieces simply don't fit together, and I say "Wait a minute! You can't
get there from here!"
Everyone else is not the same. My SO does not think visually. Hearing is her primary sense. When she asks a technical question, my first impulse is to grab a pencil and paper to draw a diagram, but that will convey nothing to her. I need to find a different metaphor to convey my meaning.
I corresponded with a chap a while back for whom touch was the primary sense. He "felt" holes in arguments.
In an extreme case, I read about a guy who could not find his way to work. He was a trained engineer, and not stupid. Examination revealed that he was not visual
at all. Landmarks that most people navigated by were meaningless to him. But he
did have a strong kinesthetic sense. So they drove him to work in a tightly sprung sports car that transmitted every bump and curve in the road. Thereafter, he found his way to work with no problem, because his body remembered what the drive
felt like.
Yet all of these folks read, and read for pleasure. Books convey more than just a visual picture of a world, and you'll have to dig deeper to find explanations of why people don't read.
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Dennis