/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15966541]

How do you visualize the story when you read a book? Describe how you see the images when reading. Is it realistic? Is it animated? Is it like a drawing or painting? Do you hear the voices and sounds?

[Anonymous No.15966559]

The house is always either my aunt's house if it's a big old house in new england, or my grandmother's house if it's supposed to be in the suburbs

[Anonymous No.15966566]

>>15966541

When I read a story, highly realistic images that have a couple of seconds of animations pop up in my mind. Its kinda like watching a movie, but not as interconnected or complex. The images are full color, and not cartoony, or painted, it is texture like reality is.
I hear voices aswell, and I can modify it so it sounds like anyone I know, from both real life or movies.

The quality of my visual images increases exponentially with my level of exhaustion, they are always stronger at night time, or if I take stimulants that directly increase dopamine.

[Anonymous No.15966576]

>>15966541
I see the images as real people.

[Anonymous No.15966656]

i just recreate it from my memories of places and people with similar characteristics

[Anonymous No.15966666]

>>15966541
I usually don't visualize anything, anon. As in trying to make an effort or whatever. Things just come and it is like watching tv or whatever.

[Anonymous No.15966672]

>>15966541
I can picture everything except those intricate landscape descriptions, like "on a hill under the river by a fjord which is next to a mesa by the blah blah blah". Fuck off, Mr Author, who cares.

[Anonymous No.15967499]

>>15966541
I can't.

[Anonymous No.15967545]

>>15966541
Depends on the story. Maybe it's violent and gritty and the only color mentioned is red; the rest is black and white. Maybe it involves death but in a warm manner, and so the gore is dialed down behind a more cartoony, hieroglyphic style. Maybe the story is bad and it's anime.

[Anonymous No.15967589]

>>15966541
I let images recreate themselves more or les spontaneously, in a sort of cinematic motion. When I was a child I focused more in drawing more detail to it because I enjoyed that way, nowdays I don't bother and let it form as it please. The sound and voices is recreated in a similar manner.

[Anonymous No.15967620]

i pretend everyone is my friend and the rabbits are out to get me usually for the entiretyie of the action sequentce but formally not know were the

[Anonymous No.15967635]

>>15966666
>I usually don't try to get digits, anon. As in trying to track the post numbers or scriptfagging. I just get them and it is like being in a dubs thread or whatever.

[Anonymous No.15967636]

Most landscapes or buildings or people are probably drawn from those that I'm familiar with.

[Anonymous No.15967672]

>>15966672
Man those descriptions just ruin entire books for me. After not being able to make sense when the area was first described, I find myself kinda lost when every now and then the author mentions some place in relation to something that is happening, then I feel I am not getting the story 100% so its not worth reading it anymore. I then want to read something new from the start with 100% comprehension.

[Anonymous No.15967711]

>>15966541
They look like memories to me.

[Anonymous No.15967766]

>>15966541
>Is it realistic? Is it animated?
Not gonna lie, I picture various movie characters despite my best efforts. Some are animated and some aren't.

[Anonymous No.15967845]

I just insert myself as the protagonist and visualize the story as a compilation of real-life.happenings that occured to me

[Anonymous No.15967912]

>>15966541
I try to visualize just something for myself to go along with enough, generally I’m thinking of like real life scenes taking place. I imagine the happenings as though I were there.

[Anonymous No.15967941]

>>15966541
I can hear sounds but I can't visualize imagery.

[Anonymous No.15967997]

>>15966541
I vividly visualize epic poetry but not every text lends itself to this.

[Anonymous No.15968034]

Nearly everything is visualized in great detail. Sounds and voices also accurately correspond to what i'm reading. The only flaw is that when i start focussing on the visuals the image in my head starts to deform and shift in and out of color.

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>>15966666
>>15967499
>>15967711
>>15967766
>Check'd

[Anonymous No.15968068]

>>15966541
I spontaneously visualize with life-like images. It depends on whether I am familiar with the objects described. The images in my head are like images of early childhood memories or dreams, fragmentary and protean. I variously limit or indulge in visualization based on familiarity of objects described, the type of fiction, whether an author clearly intends to communicate a visual idea or a verbal one. Level of visualization changes from paragraph to paragraph.

[Anonymous No.15968086]

>>15966541
Fleeting, different art styles, sometimes it’s frustrating making a character’s face from scratch because it takes a while before it’s easy to passively envision

[Anonymous No.15968091]

>>15968068
So for example, I had little to pull from direct experience when I went about visualizing Moby-Dick. So it turned out to be more of a purely verbal experience, which I believe was the best way to appreciate the novel. Hemingway offers a lot of familiar images from life and media to adorn the fictional objects. I had less strain visualizing the Spanish mountains, so purely verbal enjoyment was also enhanced. It is middle-of-the-road cases that get difficult when I find myself focusing on visualization itself (try to avoid!).

[Anonymous No.15968117]

>>15968086
If I visualize faces, they never persist in my mind. I can't 'see' them in my minds eye in the way I can see a familiar thing like the Eiffel Tower or a watering can. If one could transmit my imagined faces onto paper like a carbon transfer, a spectator would probably find them grotesque or caricature. I have some seldom successes.

[Anonymous No.15968135]

Usually pretty hazy like I'm seeing everything through water or fog. I'm pretty sure I always narrate and do every voice in my own voice lol. I'll have to pay more attention when I read later.

[Anonymous No.15968154]

>>15968117
I agree, they’re difficult. Although for example I think seeing Harry Potter is easy because you can just use the familiar actor’s faces. Do you still have trouble in that case?

[Anonymous No.15968171]

>>15968086
>reading Proust
>narrator says this or that character looks just like this or that painting by an old italian
>look up the painting online or in my visual companion by Eric Karpeles
Easy.

[Anonymous No.15968178]

Vague black and white images. Can't seem to imagine color

[Anonymous No.15968203]

i visualise if i want to read fast, and if the visualisation in my head gets disrupted i must be off track or reading it wrong, so i go back, analyse what i read and get back on pace.

when i visualise a story, there are images, but no sounds. the images are realistic to me, but i dont see anything in the sense that you look on something. the lack of sound does nothing to get in the way of the story and i can feel the words being enunciated and expressed with passion.

[Anonymous No.15968204]

>>15968178
That’s pretty interesting, imagine being able to read with somebody else’s mind for a few minutes. We’re clearly all slightly different

[Anonymous No.15968222]

>>15966666
checked

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