As I noticed, after reading 2-8 thousand words a day, after a few days of reading like this, it becomes very difficult for me to read, and I started reading actively lately, before that I only watched TV shows and movies, and now I have a slight headache, the text is floating, I even confuse words. In fact, that’s why I used to read very little, and now I’m so tired of TV shows and movies that I’m willing to force myself to read, even if I have a headache, to become emotionally attached to books instead of just consuming like zombie like I used to.
Are you reading books because you want to, or because to think you HAVE to?
There’s no point in suffering through a leisure activity you don’t enjoy.
It’s not that I don’t like it, I like it, it’s just that I’m too used to TV shows and movies with music, which is a bit unusual, although interesting in its own way, it’s just that I find it difficult to enjoy the events in the text, there are no pictures, no character voices, and when I try to revive it in my fantasy, I get tired quickly.
Are you completely unable to see images or hear voices in your mind’s eye/ear? No matter what you read? And it’s always been like that?
Or do you just get fatigued after a while? But with effort can have a visual or audible imagination?
The former could be something called aphantasia, which is when someone is born without the ability to visualize things in their head
The latter might just a skill thing. When I was about 10, I had to train myself both to sharpen my imagination, but also not to fall asleep reading every time. I remember doing this distinctly, just constant practice with my imagination. It got a lot easier as I practiced.