No matter how hard I try to read, I still can't picture it right. I just can't. I'm trying to develop the habit and enjoyment of reading, but it's difficult since I can't imagine scenarios, and when I can, they are very poor. Is there a way around this? Maybe I'm just moronic.
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Stupid frogposter.
>he thinks you're supposed to "imagine scenarios"
Stick to movies kiddo
They are not whole scenarios, but things that make up the scenario.
You absolutely are. If your brain is not providing connection of all types as you're reading you're not really engaging the text.
no, you're not, you just have to understand the next (and not even that much, because a part of the understanding comes after you've read a bit more)
i'm another anon
It's just part of the limitless understanding that you can extract from a single instance.
Just because it's your preferred doesn't mean shit, especially it being correct or even useful since as previously mentioned, a person who can imagine a scene probably has a much more intuitive and therefore deeper grasp on the material that it goes beyond simple textual "understanding".
"understanding" is just first step of assimilating new information, if you're not letting your mind make associations and engage with it different faculties it's not going to stick and it's not going to expand
Some people just can't do it. Visualisation isn't a skill necessarily, it's just something you either do or don't. Some people have an internal voice that speaks, some people have images that appear in their head, some people have both.
Just try to imagine like basic shapes in your head, try to manipulate those shapes, then try to picture something from your memory, an object like an apple, your house, a street nearby, increase the complexity.
If you can't do any of that, then don't worry, it's not a failing of yours it's just the way you are.
Don't listen to this defeatist midwit
Practice more. Your brain will adapt. The more you do it, the better you'll get at it. You can do it anon!
It's biology you fricking idiot. You don't get to choose it, if you can't visual ANYTHING. Then you are a verbal thinking not a visual thinker.
Look it up you stupid c**t. I hate how confident people are when they are wrong.
Notice how I said if you can visualise shapes at least then you can start to improve.
>Visualisation isn't a skill necessarily
so how will I understand what is going on if I don't use visualization while I read?
literature is an abstract medium, you're not meant to play movies in your head
Do you also fail to appreciate music unless there's a cool MV to go along with it?
How do you understand what people say to you? Do you have to imagine a picture of a house to know what a house is when someone says the word "house"?
I guess probably not.
It's really not a big deal to not be able to imagine a dark and stormy night. You just have to know that it's there.
It's pretty rare that people just absolutely can't do one though. The majority of people can do both. So if you can imagine a white square in black space (or the other way around, but I find white shapes in black space much easier to visualise personally) and then try rotating it or moving it around. If you can do shit like that then build from there. Learning how to draw might help. Most people don't even see what they're actually seeing anyway, most people see an abstracted version of life until they learn how to really look at the details.
When you remember something, do you have like a quasi-film that plays in your head or do you just remember events? It's hard for me to imagine what it's like to be a verbal thinker since although I can do both, I'm way more titled towards visual thinking.
It is a skill. You can improve your visualization.
http://winwenger.com/imstream.htm#Backup
what are you reading?
if the book is any good you could try to just read it and not try to forcefully come up with a visual interpretation of every scene, that must make the whole thing a chore. see if the story is interesting on its own. maybe after you've been reading for a while (like regularly for months) images will pop up here and there, especially if you reduce the amount of time spent on mindless browsing etc.
but if not, well, I dont know. I always loved novels and I have a terrible imagination, I never 'saw' any characters and long detailed descriptions of places and scenery bore me. I nevertheless enjoy the general athmosphere a talented author is creating. not to say I am not envious of someone who has some fricking movie playing in their head while reading, if such person even exists
>what are you reading?
Dracula.
I see, I should focus on understanding what is going on more than trying to paint the whole scene in my head?
Did you watch lots of TV/spend much time on the Computer as a child? High screen time in early development is strongly associated with the inability of symbolic thinking.
>Did you watch lots of TV/spend much time on the Computer as a child?
yes.
>High screen time in early development is strongly associated with the inability of symbolic thinking.
ok, how can I change this? inb4: just get off your computer, man
Bro don't fall for this stupid shit. 99% of people spent a lot of time on screens when they were a kid. It's like asking someone "Did you enjoy sugary foods when you were young?"
Whilst it is true that is commonplace today, it does have an impact upon one's imagination. Though I would say that, rather than the perpetual tendency to hopelessness that is cultivated on IQfy, one can simply pay attention to how much mindless visual stimulus that one is subjected oneself to.
I myself noticed that, after getting into reading 15 years ago, that my imagination was only sourced from images from video games or films/programmes or places I'd been; after ceasing to play video games and limiting my consumption of boxsets, I can now imagine places I've never been.
>imagine characters as anime characters
>enjoyment and engagement of book goes up 1000%
Try to come up with little movies in your head, not just concepts of movies which is how creative ideas tend to be, but shot-by-shot, full detailed scenes that you can account for every aspect like lighting or camera movement. It sounds moronic but it's what I've been training myself to do and it has improved my mental images like nothing else.
If you can't visualise don't bother. Just read the story as it is. Description scenes are cringe anyway.
Does anyone else remember their visualisations?
it's expected that the parts that gave you vivid mental images are the ones that you will remember the most, because the brain is a lot better at remembering images and their associations than just textual narratives
Unironically read children's books.
Try hitting your head really hard
kys
fine, I will.
good 🙂
okay
stop completely the consumption of goypixels for a month. I had the circumstance to get detached from all the ~~*screens*~~ for several weeks. In the end of my solitude my visual imagination returned naturally. But now look who's posting again here, I am trapped again...
>But now look who's posting again here, I am trapped again...
is our condemnation, to remain here forever.