How We Visualize What We Read

“Strangely, when we remember the experience of reading a book, we imagine a continuous unfolding of images. We imagine, in essence, that the experience of reading was like that of watching a film. For instance I remember reading Anna Karenina: ‘I saw Oblonsky, and then I saw Oblonsky’s house, and then I saw this, and then that …’ But this is not what actually happens.”