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Does anyone else have trouble visualizing scenes when reading novels? I'm working through Blood Meridian right now and I can't imagine things as vividly as I'd like to. I have this same problem with most other books I read. I feel like I haven't seen enough of life, of the varieties of locations and scenery to properly picture things in my head.

>> No.7853587
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7853587

try reading.

>> No.7853593

>>7853571
just fucking Google the places they travel to dumbass. look at the pictures then just remember them when you read.

>> No.7853610

>being a sub-visualizer

>> No.7853626

>>7853571
>he still visualizes when he reads
Miss picture books, don't you.

>> No.7853655

>>7853626
I don't know if you're being serious or not but I agree one hundred percent
Visualizing scenes is just a way of escapism. It takes away from the text.
If anything you should be seeing colors and visualizing individual words instead of seeing some movie float through your view

>> No.7853677

>>7853571
Read less child porn for starters.

>> No.7853683

>>7853655
you are a meme

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>>7853683

>> No.7853714

>>7853683
only if he's a level 10 oldfag

>> No.7853743

Who the hell visualises scenes?

Do you try and view shit like a movie in your head?

>> No.7853746

>>7853743
This

>> No.7853793

How can people not visualize anything when they read? Why would writers include sensory details if they didn't want you picturing what's happening in the novel?

>> No.7854924

>>7853793
>meme

>> No.7855120

>>7853655
I'm really not a fast reader but I never fully picture things like a movie and I assumed that's the norm? Like recognizing words by the letters in it or overall shape rahter tahn the acutal odrer. Words just build associations. And you will always just get a few words, not the whole picture. It's way more subconscious than thinking of the very shape of a house and just where exactly the character stands in front of it and what color his shirt is. Isn't that how everyone does it?

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7855152

OP you are doing it wrong.

a novel is like your friend telling you a story: pay attention to the rhythm and events of the story. when a friend is talking to you, do you squint the whole time like an imbecile, trying to visualize whatever your friend says? your mind will conjure images when it is compelled to conjure images.

>> No.7855158

huh, i automatically visualize scenes when i read, it doesn't even slow me down when reading; how is this wrong? Please explain

>> No.7855397

>>7853655
How do you know what's happening if you don't visualize what's happening?

>> No.7855554

>>7853610
>>7853626
>>7853655
>>7853743
I don't get it. That's how I've read for years. It doesn't take anything away from the actual text.
I wonder if that's connected to the fact I don't mind subtitles.

>> No.7855604

>>7855397
By reading the words, anon.