Does anyone else see a story vividly when they're reading it?

[Sarah G]

So I was talking to my partner about what it is like for me to read books and realized the experience for him is very different and now I'm not sure if I'm just weird.

When I read I kind of see what's happening as I'm reading it. Like a little movie in my head. Which is why so far I haven't found any book to movie adaptations quite right, as I already have a look and voice for the characters I read. I find this really helps me get lost in the world created in a book and I get really invested in the characters.

Please say I'm not the only one that does this?

[TaaraLynn]

Definitely not the only one! I hear their voices, see the setting, clothing, see the emotions that run across their faces. . . So, I completely agree about when adaptations are made. The voices always get me!

[Sarah G]

Oh thankfully I'm not alone . Yes! Even when they use the same lines from the book it just doesn't sound right does it?

[Jillpillbooknerd]

Yes! I was trying to explain this to my coworkers the other day and they looked at me like I was insane! But I think that's the best part about reading, it's like a movie in your head!

[Kendra M Parker]

This is me, too. I definitely prefer books because I can enjoy the pictures in my head far longer. And movie adaptations are always so disappointing when I feel like I’m in the film instead of just a viewer.

[Shrabastee Chakraborty]

I have always been able to see pictures in my head while reading. This was so natural to me that I never even gave it a concious thought until much later. While I did, I found I have mental pictures of almost every book, and often they do not match wih the author's version or the movie. I used to have problems with this, but later I tried to accept all the imagery, both mine and others'. When I don't see pictures that means either I am not concentrating enough or the book is uninteresting!

[nikkyteewhy]

Oh yes. I imagine all the scenes and see them vividly. That what determine if I will like the movie adaptation if the book has one. It has to meet with the standard I have imagined in my head to be considered good.

[Lily-Rose_Winter]

I always see images of the characters and the scenes. Most of the time I lose myself in the book so much that the world around me disappears

[Beth KG]

By Beth KG

Oh my goodness, yes! For me, it is not so much like seeing a movie...but with a good book...living an alternate reality. I get lost in it and miss my alternate world when I come to the end of the book. And I agree with nikyteewhy, no movie has yet lived up to what I have created in my head, but some come closer to what I am already hoping to see conveyed.

[rave_2]

It was always like a movie in my head whenever I read books. Very vivid, too.

[strawberrysab]

I think it depends a lot on the talent of the writer. Suggestive descriptions and credible dialogues can really bring a book to live. The bad part is when a good book becomes a movie or a tv show and it's so different from how you had imagined it.

[Alice Thokchom]

Yes, I can see the picture vividly. Its like watching a movie.

[lara_haelterman]

Definitely! I always wonder how the movie would be like when reading the book. I visualize the characters and world in my head and am thus often disappointed when the real movie comes out and it doesn't resemble what I had in mind. The last example I have of this is Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I loved the book so much, and was excited to see it visualized in a movie. But it wasn't how I expected it to be at all and I wasn't even able to finish watching the movie as I preferred the version I had in my head.

[DakotaA]

I don't see the story while I'm reading it, but I definitely day dream about a story if I find it really interesting! I also don't usually picture specific faces for characters and am usually not to bothered with casting decisions in tv/film adaptations unless they miss out on something that is fundamentally important to a character (cough cough Professor Slughorn was supposed to have a walrus-like moustache in Harry Potter cough cough).

[dianaterrado]

Yes I do! That's why I love reading fantasy so much because I'm almost always in a whole different place and it's awesome!