When you are reading, how do you envision the story?

[Severin90]

When you are hearing a story or reading a book, how do you envision the world?

For me, I strangely enough imagine anything like it was taken place in a cartoon or comic ala Disney quality. I may or maynot be a victim of the "evil" disney cooperation. Its very VERY rare i envision characters like real people

Don't know if the title describes it well, but hey its my first post ever..

 

[The Cheezy One]

Cell shaded, so not cartoony, but not real either. I thought it was just me! I also don't really see anything unless it's described. I fill in the sky and ground with a really bland colour.
Good first post/thread, there are some stupid ones, but this does make sense

EDIT: Like Tips_of_fingers says, if I have seen the character portrayed once, then I mentally visualise them as that, unless the description can convince me otherwise. Reading the Prydain Chronicles, it was a long time before I could picture Flewddur Flamm as anything other than an old man, and taran as anything older than a 10 year old.

 

[Jamboxdotcom]

i pretty much envision them as a series of photographs, or occasionally short segments of video.

 

[Jedoro]

I generally envision everything realistically, since that's how all my daydreams and stuff go so I can relate to it better.

 

[Tips_of_Fingers]

Welcome to the Escapist...stay out of the basement etc.

I envisage the story with realistic-looking characters/colours/proportions etc.

Unless it's explicit that things appear otherwise.

If I'm reading a book that's been adapted into a film, and I have seen said film, I find it very difficult to get the image of the actors and architecture out of my head.

Prime example: Lord of the Rings.

 

[Severin90]

Welcome to the Escapist...stay out of the basement etc.

I envisage the story with realistic-looking characters/colours/proportions etc.

Unless it's explicit that things appear otherwise.

If I'm reading a book that's been adapted into a film, and I have seen said film, I find it very difficult to get the image of the actors and architecture out of my head.

Prime example: Lord of the Rings.

True and i also end up in the situation were I try to piece the scenes from the film to the book so all the filler content and noveladaption just gets over my head.. Espacially with action /war movies

And thank you, you are first to congratulate me yay! If you by basement means trolling, I sir will stay on the top floor thank you

 

[Les Awesome]

i once read a very colourful story about unicorns space, time travel
and transforming old people
i imagined it with FAMILY GUY characters

 

[Tips_of_Fingers]

SNIP

No, by basement, I mean that if you say or ask something really fucking stupid, you'll be sent to the basement.

enjoy your stay at the Escapist = ]

 

[Udain]

I'd have to say I imagine everything as realistically as i can manage, but tend to focus on the characters and important scenery, everything else is fairly indistinct and impossible to focus on.

Although I do tend to read books as if I were watching a movie, reading the words becomes totally subconcious and I just see the events play out as if they were really there, anyone else do that?

 

[killcheese]

Whenever i read i picture all the male character to be Bruce Wills and all the female characters to be Scarlett Johansson topless, it even makes a shitty book like the great gatsby fun to read.

 

[Severin90]

The cartoon adaption can sometimes be a bit strange.. I always imagined fx Dumbledore and professor Remus Lupus to be this guy
http://magicalscreencaps.com/images/mulan/gall/mulan_363.JPG

 

[Rawle Lucas]

I imagine books I read to look like live-action movies.

 

[Fwee]

Depends on the writer to me. Some can put me right into the picture, and my brain will match the tone with its imagery.
Others will just be text.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Generally realistically, except my mind always seems to give things a rather washed out colour palette.

 

[Weaver]

Mine are always fairly realistic, though often things can be a bit foggy and unspecified, especially if the book fails to mention the details of those things. For example if it doesn't specify what the background of the scene is, there just won't BE one.

 

[MassiveGeek]

I sort of visualise it subconciously. Images sort of appear faded on the pages behind the letters when I read, sometimes they're entire scenes, sometimes images, and for some reason, sometimes all I see is a forest.

 

[Leopard]

Usually in my head? Just throwing that out there.

 

[Wasurenagusa]

I visualise stories in a bit of a strange way.

I see everything in my head as it happens, and everything which goes on takes the form of shadows. I imagine people look like what I would make them look like and make the story my own.

However, I see everything as shadow, and in turn, these scenes are painted in my head as recollections of events I observed.

 

[RatRace123]

I usually see a movie.
Sometimes when I really get into it my mind will actually make a soundtrack to it.
Granted, I've got all the musical ability of a pair of underpants, so usually the soundtrack is "borrowed" from other movies.