sometimes when reading I start thinking about something else, often it's something atleast tangentially related to what I'm reading. I realize this after a few paragraphs and then think I wasn't rigorous in my analysis of the text which caused my mind to wander. but if I start thinking about something else that's related to the feeling the text evoked in me, isn't that also fine? atleast if I also remember what happened in the book
I've found it only happens, when reading nonfiction, if the text itself is on a tangent.>oh we're going on a tangent?>guess I'm going on my own
>>25178210I noticed it rn while reading sartre's nausea, when I started imagining what sort of a person I would be if I was living in Paris in said times, with a similar pursuit. i didn't stop reading while thinking about it, and now I'm thinking if it's more daydreaming or examining the scenario of the book by putting myself in it.
>>25178161focus on what you're doing. Stop copeing and convincing yourself it's actually good
