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[-] Siethron@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

What is reading like for you? Do you not hear the words you're reading in your head as you read them?

[-] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 6 days ago

Its actually wilder than that, some people have aphantasia where they can't imagine shapes or forms in their mind. If you describe a dog, they do not have a mental image of the dog.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago

I have thoughts that I hear, but I can't picture images in my mind. Like I know what a dog looks like, but I can't see it

[-] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 5 days ago

You my friend, have aphantasia. IIRC its about 1-3% of the population.

[-] alternategait@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I'm not the person you asked, but I'm the same way. I do not hear sounds when I read which is one reason I don't tend to be moved by poetry (love music and spoken word poetry though). I instead tend to have an extremely vivid imagining of the things described. I always feel that books are better than movies at least partially because the special effects in my mind cannot be touched by anything possible these days.

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