Reading is kinda weird, because I feel like I hear a voice, but if I think about it for five seconds I realize that "voice" has no qualities I could describe and therefore ... probably doesn't exist? Usually, anyway. Dialogue sometimes has clear voices, if I have a good idea of what the character should sound like. I'm extremely good at visualization in pretty much every way, like if I want to imagine something introduced into the real world (like, on top of my desk for example) then the image I create is typically only a little bit less clear than if it were really there. Like maybe a little fuzzy or shimmery in a sense, like it might not stay 100% clear for more than a couple seconds. And that level of detail takes conscious effort / concentration. Strangely enough, despite being very good at that in theory, I don't visualize very much while reading. Things kind of happen in a shadowy ambiguous void that's constantly shifting.
Strangely enough, despite being very good at that in theory, I don’t visualize very much while reading. Things kind of happen in a shadowy ambiguous void that’s constantly shifting.
I think that's normal, and I think it's impossible for anybody (even highly visual people) to fully imagine a new world from scratch while reading a book, IMO. I only imagine the parts that are actually detailed in the book, and the rest I kind of just sub in some setting/building that I remember from my own life, or a video game or something.
I also have no internal monologue. Voices while reading depends on how fast I'm reading, and how much I'm visualizing. I can sometimes hear an internal monologue while reading, but only if I'm reading slowly, and even then it comes at the expense of understanding/visualizing the material. Basically I can only do one at a time.
I feel that I'm very good at visualizing images and motion.
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Reading is kinda weird, because I feel like I hear a voice, but if I think about it for five seconds I realize that "voice" has no qualities I could describe and therefore ... probably doesn't exist? Usually, anyway. Dialogue sometimes has clear voices, if I have a good idea of what the character should sound like. I'm extremely good at visualization in pretty much every way, like if I want to imagine something introduced into the real world (like, on top of my desk for example) then the image I create is typically only a little bit less clear than if it were really there. Like maybe a little fuzzy or shimmery in a sense, like it might not stay 100% clear for more than a couple seconds. And that level of detail takes conscious effort / concentration. Strangely enough, despite being very good at that in theory, I don't visualize very much while reading. Things kind of happen in a shadowy ambiguous void that's constantly shifting.
I think that's normal, and I think it's impossible for anybody (even highly visual people) to fully imagine a new world from scratch while reading a book, IMO. I only imagine the parts that are actually detailed in the book, and the rest I kind of just sub in some setting/building that I remember from my own life, or a video game or something.
I also have no internal monologue. Voices while reading depends on how fast I'm reading, and how much I'm visualizing. I can sometimes hear an internal monologue while reading, but only if I'm reading slowly, and even then it comes at the expense of understanding/visualizing the material. Basically I can only do one at a time.
I feel that I'm very good at visualizing images and motion.