I visualise while reading but vaguely. Kind of like I can almost see it out of the corner of my eye.
For the movie thing I have tried it on a couple of books. Maybe it takes me a minute to read a page, and the most physical action is maybe a quarter but generally interspersed with description.
I tried to find a viable sequence of more than a second or two in this book
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Fox-Deceiv...der_B00BHHDMQE
Lots of action in this book and lots of description. But my brain just doesn't seem to want to spontaneously run 1 or 2 second video clips out of several pages of reading no matter how I try to make it.
Often I 'know' what a character looks like, often it hurts my head to try and get more than an impression. And not the authors fault.
When dreaming I dream in colour with basically a movie running in my head. I have ongoing progressive dreams and still remember vividly some dreams from childhood.
I have been trying to see how this can be translated to reading.
So how would one take a segment of a book, short or long and have a video running concurrently at more than an excruciatingly slow snails pace.
I read a lot of action packed mystery/fantasy/adventure and am missing the concept. How can a page or ten with no-one doing much physical be translated by my poor feeble brain into a video like experience. Sure the movie makers do it but they do the action in one go without all of those extra lines of description, thoughts and fellings entering into it.
Maybe I am missing the way it works. Do people see a running video throughout or just little spurts where you see a moment or two of action. I get the impression from the posts that it is an ongoing thing for many. Just zip through the book with constant video running in the brain.
Not saying I want to do this all the time but would like to do it once
Give me your recommendations for books that you read and have a video running while you do it please and I will give it a try.
Thank you
Helen