Everything everybody else has said resonates with me as well, but there’s one thing nobody has really hit on yet, so I’ll talk about that.
While I have no visual imagination, I have a fairly rich auditory one. While thinking up an example, the McDonalds jingle that goes ” ba da bop ba baaaa, I’m loving it” played in my head. I can recall it at will, and pitch shift it as I want. I make no claim of having perfect pitch, but I do have decent relative pitch.
My internal voice has internally repeated nearly every sentence I have ever read or written, unless I deliberately shut it off. I can recall voices and sounds, and I think it helps me identify accents and languages. This doesn’t make me a perfect mimic, but I have yet to mistake an Aussie for a Kiwi , which apparently happens.
Movies definitely affect my reading of books, but I usually don’t mind these changes. I’m never going to read Samwise in a voice that isn’t Sean Astin’s, and that’s fine by me. My reading speed is average. And in a good book, I will often stop and reread particularly pleasing prose, which is generally (but not necessarily) alliterative. The pleasing effect can either be in hearing the sounds play out, in my head, or in the way it would feel to say the sounds. So while visual readers may enjoy a book for the color of the roses, I am often doing similarly, by admiring the susurrations of those same roses. This may be related to ASMR in some way.
I do hear the voice of comic book/novel characters that my brain synthesizes automatically, everytime. I noticed this when there is an audio/movie version of a book and disparity exists. Actually, audiozation comes more often. I read and write texts with an inner voice, and sound gets clear when I read slower. That’s why I stay to be a slow reader.
Everything everybody else has said resonates with me as well, but there’s one thing nobody has really hit on yet, so I’ll talk about that.
While I have no visual imagination, I have a fairly rich auditory one. While thinking up an example, the McDonalds jingle that goes ” ba da bop ba baaaa, I’m loving it” played in my head. I can recall it at will, and pitch shift it as I want. I make no claim of having perfect pitch, but I do have decent relative pitch.
My internal voice has internally repeated nearly every sentence I have ever read or written, unless I deliberately shut it off. I can recall voices and sounds, and I think it helps me identify accents and languages. This doesn’t make me a perfect mimic, but I have yet to mistake an Aussie for a Kiwi , which apparently happens.
Movies definitely affect my reading of books, but I usually don’t mind these changes. I’m never going to read Samwise in a voice that isn’t Sean Astin’s, and that’s fine by me. My reading speed is average. And in a good book, I will often stop and reread particularly pleasing prose, which is generally (but not necessarily) alliterative. The pleasing effect can either be in hearing the sounds play out, in my head, or in the way it would feel to say the sounds. So while visual readers may enjoy a book for the color of the roses, I am often doing similarly, by admiring the susurrations of those same roses. This may be related to ASMR in some way.
I am physically nodding to you right now:)
I do hear the voice of comic book/novel characters that my brain synthesizes automatically, everytime. I noticed this when there is an audio/movie version of a book and disparity exists. Actually, audiozation comes more often. I read and write texts with an inner voice, and sound gets clear when I read slower. That’s why I stay to be a slow reader.