When you read a book, do you visualize the landscape and the people, like a movie scene flowing through your mind?
When I can't pay attention yes. So I don't have to re-read the same sentence again. Otherwise I don't bother
>>24842322Of course. If you aren’t imagining all the details, you’re “reading,” but only by definition.
>>24842322If I'm enjoying it yes, my imagination doesn't get erect otherwise.
1-5 has more to do with keeping accurate mental images in you’re head. Like Temple Grandin. You read a page of the book and the image created is something you can keep in your head accurately without changing like older AI video when you move around in your head. This is how high IQ individuals can build things in their head one day accurately and then make it later with no faults. Most people have the ability to imagine vivid images in their head, but can they keep those images in their head long enough to move around with no change and see little details without your brain changing them?
>>24842322All of it. I construct a universe
>>24842322No, I'm an NPC reddit user. I don't read the book until I've seen the movie.
>>24842322Yes, but not really like a movie. If the characters or their surroundings aren't really described, in my imagination they're just some kind of abstractions, while stuff that is described in full detail can be really vivid. I'd say that I mostly focus on some general sense of mood that I get from the various scenes.
no. imagery is for low iq retards who need to be "shown" like children instead of just knowing abstractly
I'm convinced all the people saying 1 - 4 are lying. Ask them to draw the apple from 1 and they wont be able to do it despite claiming to be able to see 1
>>24842322Yes. I feel bad for aphantasiacs. I wonder how much better my imagination would be if I read more as a child.
>>24843052You can't be serious. If people could look at something and draw it well, everyone would be making art.I'm imagining 4 right now. I'm spinning it around. I just sliced it in half. Your reply is cope.
>>24842322Sometimes I get really vivid imagery and sometimes I get pretty much nothing. It depends on attention, personal appeal, familiarity, probably other things. I don't believe people that claim they're constantly envisioning some 3d movie tho
I can rotate the characters in my mind
>>24842322Yes
>>24843045>t. STEMtard
>>24842322I used to be able to visualise things before taking psychiatric medication.
>>24842999This. It's more like a dream to me.
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When I read, I definitely visualise everything as if it's really happening. I have clear silhouettes of what the characters look like and I imagine vividly what the environments are.Something I've recognised however is that my imagination when reading tends to follow a blueprint of my own memory so to speak. As in most of what I'm imagining in my mind is all in the same style visually as to what I am familiar with in my daily life. It's hard to imagine a completely foreign concept on the spot.Like if I asked you to imagine a book in your mind right now, the image you get will likely be similar to books you have recently read or books you are familar with visually. If I asked you to imagine a completely new book that you've never seen before, it'l be very difficult. It's like trying to imagine a musical melody you've never heard before.
