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I think AND read in complete sentences and had NO CLUE PEOPLE DIDN’T. Like it’s my voice reading to me or whatever. Or sometimes someone else’s voice. Like if I read lord of the rings and Samwise is speaking I hear it in Sean Astin’s voice. I THOUGHT EVERYONE WAS LIKE THIS
This is so baffling to me. Like, I don’t doubt you at all, but I read this and my brain just throws up the “that sounds fake, but okay” meme. If I’m reading dialogue of a character whose voice it sounds like sometimes I’ll hear them speaking it, but that doesn’t happen often (and the dialogue has to be well-written and in-character enough to match their cadences or else my brain just says nope). Or if I remember something with words like music or something someone said, it’s not just words appearing in my brain it’s all tied up in the scene where I heard them so like I’m also hearing the background noise or seeing the place they were standing when they said it or the feeling of the room while I was reading them on a computer screen. It’s never just like, HERE ARE WORDS.
It’s most often just a jumble of sound, color, emotion, and concept with occasional words floating to the top which makes it both easier and harder to write like. It’s harder because everything has to be translated into words, but descriptions are sometimes easier because of the spiderweb of associations that mean sometimes I’ll pull out something three levels of association away but that still works in a simile or whatever. But like, that takes conscious effort to make the words go because my thoughts are just floaty chemical soup most of the time.
Like, I gotta ask. Doesn’t it get annoying to have all those words all the time? Is there time lag, like the difference between reading a story and having it read to you aloud, or is it instantaneous?
Anonymous said:
I think AND read in complete sentences and had NO CLUE PEOPLE DIDN’T. Like it’s my voice reading to me or whatever. Or sometimes someone else’s voice. Like if I read lord of the rings and Samwise is speaking I hear it in Sean Astin’s voice. I THOUGHT EVERYONE WAS LIKE THIS
This is so baffling to me. Like, I don’t doubt you at all, but I read this and my brain just throws up the “that sounds fake, but okay” meme. If I’m reading dialogue of a character whose voice it sounds like sometimes I’ll hear them speaking it, but that doesn’t happen often (and the dialogue has to be well-written and in-character enough to match their cadences or else my brain just says nope). Or if I remember something with words like music or something someone said, it’s not just words appearing in my brain it’s all tied up in the scene where I heard them so like I’m also hearing the background noise or seeing the place they were standing when they said it or the feeling of the room while I was reading them on a computer screen. It’s never just like, HERE ARE WORDS.
It’s most often just a jumble of sound, color, emotion, and concept with occasional words floating to the top which makes it both easier and harder to write like. It’s harder because everything has to be translated into words, but descriptions are sometimes easier because of the spiderweb of associations that mean sometimes I’ll pull out something three levels of association away but that still works in a simile or whatever. But like, that takes conscious effort to make the words go because my thoughts are just floaty chemical soup most of the time.
Like, I gotta ask. Doesn’t it get annoying to have all those words all the time? Is there time lag, like the difference between reading a story and having it read to you aloud, or is it instantaneous?
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Date: 2020-02-04 04:18 am (UTC)The most interesting thing to me is that it's not my voice; it's like there's a narrator in my head who is reading to me. Sometimes the narrator does voices, sometimes not. Come to think of it I can't even say if the voice is male or female, not really.
I get visuals, too; not just the pictures of whatever I'm thinking about, but at times I also see the narration spelled out in sentences, with punctuation.