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Originally Posted by Apache
When reading are you visualizing the action or are you seeing the words?
When I am reading I see the action in my mind. I am oblivious to what is actually going on around me.
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I'm the same way. With a well written book I see the action as a video in my head. If I hit a 'glitch' such as really bad grammar, misspelled words, or something not consistent with that universe than I find myself thrown out of the story and have to stop to check what the problem was. It happens even with the best of books sometimes, but is really annoying when it happens a lot. It's like having the video freeze up until I get past it.
On a book I'm really enjoying, I don't really remember seeing the pages.
My Dear Hubby doesn't read for pleasure, but loves audio books. I find I lose interest in audio books quickly, and I think part of that is that listening to the action is too slow to get my 'video' going on in my head. So I tend to drift off unless I'm multi-tasking (cleaning or such). But then I lose track of the story.
Hubby says he can't even fathom seeing the action in his head. He just hears it all.