How Do You Get Involved When Reading?
I am not sure how to word this properly!
When I read,I visualise ‘being’ there-Like a fly on the wall.It just happens when I start reading.
Do you do this or something else?Like imagine you are the main character?
I don’t imagine being the main character, although I certainly empathise. I also feel like a fly on the wall. I get very involved if it’s a good book. I also find sexual scenes in books much more arousing than porn.
Yes, that´s the idea at reading a book that you imagine everything, you choose the character that you want to ” play ” and the book will be much more entertaining, if people that reads does not do that what´s the sense of reading papers with words ?
With books, I play the game of testing my intuition.. trying to always stay a few pages ahead in my mind of what I am acutally reading. It lets me know that I am really getting a full perspective on things when I get to that point a few minutes later and figure out that I was right in my assumptions. And, the surprises in the plot seem to be more dramatic.
There is always 2 stories going on in my mind…. what I am reading.. and what I am guessing I am about to be reading.
No Iam not in the book, at least not when reading it. If the book is good enough I got the feeling that I cant stop reading it. I would like to know what will happen. But afterwards I can get a sense of being one or more caracters if I want to explore the universe or whatever. But usualy not while I read. Johan
I tend to put myself in the position of the main character. I can’t stop myself from doing it. But it does make reading fun for me.
Hmm… you actually have to enjoy the book when reading, imagine all the scenes like you are watching a movie. If you don’t like the first 20 or so pages of the book, and are totally clueless, then the book isn’t right for you.
I visualize the scene based on the descriptions of people and places.
I’m like that too, and I’de guess that anyone who is really enjoying a good book imagines they are right in the middle of the action. It’s like a movie, but you can stop and start again whenever you like.
It is purely your imagination. When I read, i will concentrate fully on the subject and try to assimilate in my mind. I will read only thought provoking stuff like philosophy, spirituality etc.
i do that alll the time especially in books i like, ill imagine the main character as me , or just seeing things threw there eyes.
I try to visualize the scene the author is describing….the place, what the characters might look like, etc.
it depends on what u read, if it describes a sperate person that get in actions “3rd person” u would imagine him as a different person, if the writer were talking to u for him self or directly to u as a reader and describes things to u to imagine, which could be called “1st person point of view”, u would imagine ur self getting in what he describes… and the reader usually applies his experiences to what he reads, if u read something about an airport, u would apply the airport u’ve seen or a mix of some airports u’v seen before, and so on… the difference in movies that u get what the director imagine for an airport as example not what u would imagine…
so reader intend to apply the best that suits him to what he read or hear, that what makes a good book really stays on ur mind and really effecting u…
If the author is good at his/her job then the words will evoke an emotion. The writing will take you to where the story is set, you will be able to visualise the scene and you will know what the characters are doing and what they look like.
The phrase a picture is worth a thousand words is true in the wrong sense her, because the (thousand) words will paint that picture for you.
If you don’t get involved in the story then the author has not done his/her job right.
A bad author will not create that picture and so is not worth reading.
I see it as if it were a movie. I try to visualize like the author describes it but sometimes I have my own opinion of what it looks like.