Anybody else have this problem? What should I do?

>>9320883
i just imagine all of the characters are your mom

>>9320886
This, especially when I read erotica. It's good to have a usual frame of reference on hand.

>>9320886
>>9320925
epic

I don't think you're supposed to imagine what characters look like, at least I know I don't think about it. The author didn't know what you'd imagine, so it can't really be important to the book?

if you grew up in the iPad your brain is just craving flashing brightly colored images - don't worry you can get over this. read books, listen to classical music, dont play video games, dont watch 8 hours of youtube. You are capable of real experience, I believe in you OP x

>>9320883
Please /tv/, just go away.

There's probably some kind of early draft of a possible scene from some new superhero movie that leaked today, so there's no need for you to be on /lit/.

I've never had much of a visual imagination. Even when physical descriptions of characters are given, I don't pay much attention to them.

I'm not a very visual person.

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>>9320984
>I don't think you're supposed to imagine what characters look like, at least I know I don't think about it. The author didn't know what you'd imagine, so it can't really be important to the book?

>>9321001
I'm banned from /tv/ right now and I want to get back into reading.

I just bought Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama.

>>9320993
>dont play video games, dont watch 8 hours of youtube.
I already don't do either of those things.

>>9321028
So then how do you read books? You picture nothing in your head at all? What do you experience?

>>9321046
I don't picture anything, usually. With some effort, I can imagine locations. But I generally just think in terms of the words and get a sense of the action. It's hard to describe but I never felt like this was a detriment to understanding a scene.

>>9321060
I am the same. Has never affected me.

I think it makes me actually relate better. If you picture people, you are "objectivizing" the book in a sense, whereas with a more general comprehension of the book it is more universal and thus applicable

>>9321060
>>9321975
what the fuck is wrong with you people

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>>9321995
maybe i should have mentioned im autistic

>>9322001
I don't know if there's necessarily a correlation between the two.

The idea that you have to 'play a movie' in your head as you read a novel is a brainlet misconception of reading. Literature belongs to the realm of abstract and sublime, if you attempt to visualize the sentences you gonna misunderstand majority of it.

>>9322019
>if you attempt to visualize the sentences you gonna misunderstand majority of it.
seriously what the fuck does that mean

I imagine all young female characters as anime girls and all male characters as action heroes such as Clint Eastwood, Chuck Norris, or Stallone.

I also do this when I think up characters for my own novels, which are admittedly shit. I can think up a whole story just by scouring pictures of anime girls and then pick a badass leading man to pair up with her.

>>9322035
Is all of /lit/ autistic?

>>9322037
yah aha xD

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>>9322037
>>9322023
>>9321995
>>9321041
>>9321001
>>9320993
Visualization is not an important part of reading.

>>9320925
And something else in the other hand

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>>9322037
Say that again.

>>9322054
So you just stare at the words on the page without taking anything in?
How do you experience anything from reading?

>>9322067
You don't need to visualize to "take things in."

>>9322080
It doesn't happen automatically for you?

>>9322080
I just listen to E-books with my eyes closed. So I can maximize the visuals.

>>9322094
Sometimes, but sometimes not.

>>9320883
>he watches TV

>my thread is still up
thank God