It's interesting to read differences in visualisation as, since I hadn't thought about it much before, I suppose I always assumed everyone visualised similarly when reading. I'm somewhere in the middle- I can visualise the story or aspects of it, but it's often hazy and it comes and goes in splotches as I read. It also depends how absorbing the book is. The more absorbed I am, the more (and more consistently, and more vividly) I tend to visualise while reading. Generally though, it's not that vivid or consistent unless the book is really fantastic. I definitely visualised more when I was younger however, and I'm not sure if that's because I read more absorbing books then or because the ability has weakened as I've become older.
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