Yep. But only when the book is well written. It's why I have to be so careful when I pick up a book that I don't have anything that has to be done because once I start the book it doesn't matter if I have a test the next day that is 40% of my grade or a paper due. I might intend to only read a few chapters but the next thing I know it's seven hours later and the book is done.

Becasue of the effect I use books to control my moods. If I'm depressed rather than binge on food I binge on fluffy books, or if I'm feeling masochistic a really depressing violent one.

My newest favorite author is Brandon Sanderson, (so happy he is finishing wheel of time)

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Yeah, though the level of immersion varies a lot depending on the quality of the writing. It's one of the reasons I kinda hate reading while I'm waiting for something...b/c it's usually a pretty big downer when I get pulled back into the real world by an alarm or something 🤢

lol thats not anything unique everyone who enjoys a good book experiences that. If we didn't then horror books and mystery novels wouldn't be nearly as entertaining as they are. 🙂

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lol thats not anything unique everyone who enjoys a good book experiences that. If we didn't then horror books and mystery novels wouldn't be nearly as entertaining as they are. 🙂

I was just wondering, because none of my family seem to be able to do it.

My newest favorite author is Brandon Sanderson, (so happy he is finishing wheel of time)

I read those books when I was 10. First one was a masterpiece, but then they started degrading. >.< I stopped reading the series after the 4th one.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

It doesn't really happen to me. Like, I can vaguely see a scene and the characters, but the sounds just aren't there. For me, reading a novel is kinda like absorbing what happens.

Of course, if I force myself to, I can make a scene. One of those blurry, dreamlike ones.

But thinking about this, wouldn't those horror stories and those violent tales hurt with that vivid of an imagination?

nah, i am not like that, i do however seem to be able to just skim my eyes over and pick up whats going on, or what the main idea is of the page/section.....

idk if it has anything to do with this tho xD

I'd have to agree with falmari and Valinor. If it's written really well, it's really easy to picture.I reckon that even if the plot is really dodgy, if the imagery is really good, it can create a really good setting. I read Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke a few years ago and although I wasn't that much of a fan of the plot, the descriptions and such were really good.
Well, I'm the kind of person who imagines heaps out of only a few sentences so I guess that works too.
Maybe the rest of your family just lacks concentration, imagination or just can't be bothered xD

"If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.."

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i don't, i kind of see the books in my head like a movie, as the camera.

worst part is when i read a book i've seen the wishbone(pbs ftw?) episode on, i can only see the main character as that dog

I found I was in Terry Pratchett's discworld when I was reading it. It is a funny place to be in. Still dream about it walking it too.

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Yeah. When you finally leave the book(either because you REALLY have to pee, or are done), it doesn't feel like any time has passed at all, has it?

Another thing amazing?

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Its AMAZING. The authors style of writing is how I think. Compared to... say, The Last Unicorn, which is almost the exact opposite style of how I think.
I also suggest Ender's Shadow, which is just the same story told from a different characters perspective. Its awesome though.

I LOVE that book. It's so amazing!! I actually bought it... something I stopped doing after second grade when I read a huge trilogy in a couple of days, causing my parents to cut off my book-buying money forever.

But anyway, I totally know what you mean. I often discuss it with my parents myself. I can't tell you how much I sobbed at the end of Wicked, just because I got so overly involved with the story and, as a result, didn't like the ending. My parents just think I'm nuts though... they both love reading but not to the extent that I do. Especially since, if I like a book enough, my behaviour does change after reading it.

That's why I try not to watch movies based on books I've already read, because most of the time they absolutely slaughter a beautiful storyline, which tends to piss me off - a lot. I think it's even worse for someone with a really active imagination than for your average fan, because, for me at least, I manage to make such a strong vision of the world that seeing it on the screen from someone else's point of view just feels wrong.

And does anyone else find the maps at the front of some novels, usually fantasy or historical fiction, incredibly annoying? I hate them, because I'd rather make up the world for myself.

Anyway, my awesome book that I'm totally lost in at the moment is called Shibumi, by Trevanian. It's sooooooooo good. The only reason I picked it up was because it has a picture of a Go board on the front, but after reading the back I knew I'd adore it. Books about assassins = awesomeness itself.

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I've always been like that. If I'm reading, people usually have to tap me on the shoulder or something to get me to come back to earth. And I've pretty much read constantly since I was 7 and used to read "Bears in the Night" after bedtime. When I was younger and got in trouble, instead of taking away TV, computer, etc, my parents would pack up my books. When I went to college, I knew that if I had books, I wouldn't stop reading them, so I left most of them at home. I only took a few grad gifts, some of my churf and and two or three Terry Pratchett. It didn't work as well as I hoped, since I started buying more books on line.
I have no idea where I'm going to keep all my books when I get home. There is no way I'm packing them up in boxes and sticking them in the attic like my mom is trying to convince me to do...

I found I was in Terry Pratchett's discworld when I was reading it. It is a funny place to be in. Still dream about it walking it too.

It's kind of impossible NOT to end up on discworld. Which is a problem, since Earth is so depressing afterwords.

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IWhen I was younger and got in trouble, instead of taking away TV, computer, etc, my parents would pack up my books.

Me too!! They figured out that nothing else worked, so they'd take books away instead of doing what normal parents do. Not fun for me, I might add, as it always ended up with me sobbing and begging for them back. Life sans books = not life, as far as I'm concerned.

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This is for REAL books, not manga. Manga you have no need to enter its world because its world is already on the page.

ANYWAY. I was wondering if anyone else did this thing I do.. what thing? You'll find out in the following.

So, when I read, a strange thing happens. I pick up the tidbits or long sentences about the surrounding, and in a matter of seconds, I am IN that world that the book describes. I can see all the details surrounding me; my mind takes the raw information the book has and adds to it. Its almost more real then the real world, but at the same time surreal, with minute differences in details and looks of certain objects that tell me it can not be real. If it is in third person, I'm a fly, an ant, observing the characters from afar, but at the same time are close enough that I see, hear, and know whatever they are seeing, hearing or know. First person is a totally different experience though. I become the character in every way possible. There is one difference though; my senses of touch and smell are gone. I no longer have them.

Yet, even if I am unaware of it, so deeply am I embedded in this world, my hands turn the pages, and my eyes read, all the while processing the information and morphing the world I am in to what is going on in the book. Its truly amazing, and this keeps on making me come back to the worlds of the books I read.

I thank my vivid imagination for this, for without it, this wouldn't be possible.

Anyway, the main point of this thread;

Does this happen to you, or am I the only one?

lol dude that just normal, your creative mind take a hold of you and allow each word to be able to see touch and sometime even smell lawl? 🙄

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