I used to be a visualizer. At around the age of 8-12 I could imagine a movie in my mind as I read. Once I read an entire 500 page book, one which was relatively high level for and 8 year old, in a single day. Unfortunantly, I don’t to do that anymore despite being an older, more experienced reader. I slowly push the pages and subvocalize. it takes me a few weeks to read 500 pages. I don’t know what changed my mindset. It’s a lot less satisfying to read this way. Does anyone have tips about how to active a mental movie while reading?
There’s more distraction nowadays. It’s easy to pick up your phone and look through the notifications every 30 minutes and it takes just that long to get deeply concentrated. Something I do is to put my phone away, on the third floor and to tell myself to finish this 300 pages every four hours, which is a reasonable reading speed. It comes down to trading all that screen time on your smart phone for reading. I am trying to be more social so I’ve been doing the inverse but definitely feel like my brain is slowing down as a result lol. I’m becoming addicted to the notifications and I feel like it’s messing with my brain chemistry.
I loved reading on my iPad with kindle but I found I would get distracted too much so I’ve gone back to regular books and leave all my stuff in the other room on silent.