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[moominmolly]

When you read a book -- when you get into the reading groove, that is -- how do you absorb the individual words? Do you start at the beginning and go to the end? Do you recognize the letters as a group? Do you recognize the shape of the word, or word sets? Something else entirely? Is this something you can even SEE in yourself?

In general, I think of my brain as working very much like my brother Paul's, but in this case, we've never really lined up, so I'm curious how the rest of the world works. I sort of have a pathological relationship to letters, so I'm not very objective.

EDIT: when people speak, I see the letters pass through my brain.

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[keyne.livejournal.com]

I see sentence- and area-shaped patterns, I think (my reading speed is very fast). I don't subvocalize while reading or hear the words in my head.

On the other hand, when people speak, I see their words in my head.

[nitouche.livejournal.com]

I see sentence- and area-shaped patterns, I think (my reading speed is very fast). I don't subvocalize while reading or hear the words in my head.

I do this too. And I eventually figured out that it's why I'm not a poetry reader at heart -- poetry forces me to actually pay attention to each word, and I find it frustratingly slow.