Actually visualizing the characters and setting

>actually visualizing the characters and setting
You disappoint me so often Veeky Forums, please tell me none of you actually do this.

I do it a little. Not so much when I'm reading but when I'm day dreaming after. There's so much "post-processing" that takes place. I find it helps to give them a more material existence.

I don't, but just because I can't.

I do, all of the time, really adds to my enjoyment and I read slow as fuck anyway so I might as well savor the details.

Depends on the text, but sometimes, yes. Why do you mock that?

I only visualize references to words
do humans actually "see pictures"?

It has something to do with Nabokov, I suppose.

I do this a lot for playrights
And novels
And Epics

I don't understand. I searched "Nabokov and visualization," and all that came up were a few comments on Nabokov's aestheticization of words (see "poshlost"), nothing about visualizing characters and settings.

Of course I do, and the only reason I can think for someone not doing it is that either they can't because they are retarded or becouse they feel better about themselves if the read the words faster, sacrifising savoring the book,

Yeah. It might be a bit embarrassing to admit, but I was great at visualizing before porn became my main fap material. It's a skill that can be trained and honed to memorize entire poems or even second language vocabulary. We as humans have a bias for locational, emotional, and visual information. Our minds are primitive like that, but it can be exploited with strong visualization and intuitive associations (imagining a guy named Baker dressed as a baker in your house.)

I don't get it either. It's half the enjoyment of reading, and it's basically essential for writing. If anyone has more information I'd be glad to see it, because ai really don't get what the point could be. (OP might have meant it as "actually drawing them", which I think I remember Nabokov doing for Madame Bovary or something in one of his books of lectures,but I don't know).

It's a(n ironic) speedreader meme about subvocalizing. It really doesn't make sense to suppress it outside of reading nonfiction where the goal is just to absorb information.

it's the best

Oh, ok, thanks.

Holy fuck are you a loser.

I struggle to do it. I can kind of picture characters but 3d spaces fuck me up.

It takes practice, and it's sort of a use it or lose it thing, but not a lot of people are willing to learn these days. Try spending five to ten minutes everyday visualising your room in great detail.

Stop watching porn. If anyone begins playing porn in front of you just say no and walk away.

>not getting the intended emotions streamlined directly to your amygdala without any prior collateral visualization/understanding

I cannot for the life of me, imagine a face or person out of thin air.

Sometimes I just pick an actor or actress and cast them into the role, other times I don't imagine them at all depending on their importance to the plot.

Oftentimes I will, but the images will usually be silly and grandiose since the writer will add in a bit of flair and my retarded brain takes it often literally.

I do it unconsiouscly, it just appears in my head when im reading

>not visualizing book scenes as anime

i do it but its all blurry and the characters constantly switch appearances

I do and even worse I visualise everything as an anime.

I have instant and automatic visualization. Thanks to my visual memory and the immense amount of movies/series/games I've watched/played. All fiction I read turn into film in my head, I even have sound effects.

>actually understanding the book
Bet you plebs do that too.

in the case of lots of ninfiction it also helps to understand it - if you are able to 3d visualize the described machine component then how is it bad - vice versa it will just help you

This is Veeky Forums, of course nobody does.

ITT: liars, you can't picture a thing in your "head"

You mean while reading or while writing? While reading you obviously should, though I try to avoid it when writing for the same reason I don't like listening to music while I write. It becomes a component of the piece that only the author has, causing the writing to feel incomplete or wrong when other people go over it without those additional elements.

What does Veeky Forums think of him and his books?

Are you implying this can be controlled? It just happens.

Point to where you are on the spectrum please

Garbage

Lol, this made me remember that I used to do the opposite. Whenever I watched any film of TV, I tried to have a running commentary in my mind to visualize how it would be written on a page.

Kek

Wait, how do you find Infinite Jest even remotely enjoyable if you don't visualize the scenes? The way Wallace describes things creates hilarious visuals. Why waste that?

I was completely unaware that this is something people struggle with.
Like everything I read almost instantly translates to a detailed "movie" in my head, including sounds (background noises and even different voices for characters etc.)

I never thought of this as something I was particularly "good at", I just thought it was normal.

When thinking of a book I've read the first thing that comes to mind is an image of a scene (or a setting, rather), not a quote from the text.

This is impossible to not do. Why are people falling for this obvious bait.
Visualization is a key principle of conceptualization even abstract principles get visualized.

>He thinks how fast you read a book is what decides your worthiness as a reader

Wew man

Tell me then how to "visualize" virtue

subjective, but you do
just like you visualize infinity

One could personify virtue or portray someone as virtuous. Even the world itself could be viualized through word association, but i dunno.

Explain dreams

Get a load of this pleb

Describe your experience of this because this is not at all what happens with me

>Implying there is a one-to-one mapping between words or concepts and mental images.
this is retarded. There are many cases in which no mental picture corresponds to my usage of a given word or my understanding of a particular concept. Furthermore, in many cases, a single word or concept is associated with multiple mental images, and conversly there are many cases in which a single mental image os associated with multiple words or concepts. E.g with respect to infinity, how does a mental image of aleph null differ from a mental image of aleph one? If they differ in any respect, its probably wholly irrellevant to their meaning.

I visualize images even when reading philosophy and mathematics, get on my level, losers.

Damn his do-rag meming ass, he wasn't even bald. If It said "Suicidal Psychos" on it-then mad respect but. . . .

New to Veeky Forums and apparently nothing is safe from being attached to a superiority complex or maybe there's a better term

A misconception many have is that these images are perfect. Like a dream, there are many holes your mind simply glosses over. And your mind does link abstract concepts to tangible memories and images in those memories. Your brain is like a webpage with a bunch of links leading to more links.

I agree with you. I find that peter sellers takes the place of most protagonists of books I read in my head. Odd.

great speaker, books are boring and useless, except to escape into meaningless tone-awareness

When I was reading Sphere in highschool I got bored halfway through and imagined one is the woman characters as inexplicably naked the whole time.

>actually thinking about your setting or characters at all
>not just sitting down with a legal pad and busting out a draft in an afternoon, sending it off to the publisher and getting published by the end of the week

I don't understand.

What don't you understand?