When Reading an interesting book, do you find yourself living the Story

I used to be like that until my husband kept complaining that I always had my nose in a book and never talked to him. I pretty well stopped reading books, and we still don't talk. After 54 years, Each knows all the others stories.

Yes it happens to me with everybook I read. I see in my mind what they are wearing, how thier face and body look. How the room or area is. I tried explaining that to my niece who is 10 and is having a hard time with her reading. I was trying to encourage her that she can become the story, that she can act it out in her mind. I enjoy reading because of this, I enjoy living and feeling how the story is going.

Sure, isn't that what great writing is all about? You pull your reader into the story!! I get so into a book that I start to imagine myself in the story and/or imagine casting the movie. I get so involved in a book sometimes that it becomes like a friend to me, and when I finish it, it's like I've had a good friend staying in my house and now I have to drop her off at the airport, and she will always be a good friend but now I have to get back to my real life.

Hi suesan YES!! I never realized til my children told me when i read outloud my voice would change with different characters and they could see them. I started paying attention then when I read to myself and realized I do the same, I feel their emotions,their relationships,their time period... I do tend to feel more then one characters identity tho as some books do every other chapter on different people in the same story. I too, have to unemotion when a books is over.Whether,happy,sad,or I wish thats what wouldve happened in my life... I like Dee HEnderson and all hers involve stories and people with emotion.they are Christian Detective type of a family in which each is in another field FBI,CIA,fireman etc..I also just enjoy mystery,detective stories,also those on Amish families,most involve breaking away from their community or getting excomm for believeing in Christ. They are interesting but emotional also. I also remember reading Scarlett Ohara and Rhett Butler..I took that book everywhere with me in 8th grade,before school, between classes,at night,i felt like I was part of the story.At the end- which took me about a month to read I felt like I was leaving another world behind that had become a part of me. Thats why I love reading so much via movies.ALot of time our imaginations do much better then hollywood!!

Yes i do imagine myself in the entire story peeping to their life from where they cannot see me ha ha .It is fun. Only I know that I am watching them. It has happened many times that after reading the elaborate discussiona bout the food being servedor eaten, I myself rush to the kitchen to find the stuff stored there so that I can also eat someting really good hi hi. It is more often a sight to see myself engrosed in a thriller and my friends say that all the thrill or laugh or adventure is painted right on my face.

Guess that's what they mean by getting lost in a book. I do that too with a good book. Even when I take a break from reading and put it down. I'm still in the book. Thinking about what's happened and wondering what will happen next. Usually I get so interested at getting to the end of the book (by reading it cover to cover) to see where the adventure leads. Then, when I do, I want to know more. A well written book is better than watching a movie about the same story.

I also become very engrossed in reading but I read and feel that whole story is like a drama which I am seeing in an interesting way. But I remain only audience and do not dissolve in the story.

I do that too..i can understand it better if im living the character..like im the one playing the important role..I like to picture out the scene on the book...i like to feel the whole story that sometime i cry considerng that when youre reading the book, the author writes down every little detail of it..

This actually happens to me too. For some reason, I can just enter the story. My mind just enters the world of the story of the book that I'm reading that point. It's something that I've done since I was a kid. I've always a good imagination, which is probably why I can easily enter the world of the book that I'm reading. It's just the way that I've always been, the way that it's always been.

I was reading one like that last night. It was not so much of living it, but I was picturing them. More like a director who is making the movie in my head. And it became so frustrating when the story does not go the same way as I have intended. Silly, huh?

Yeah, I often felt the same thing. That's why I only choose the best story book. Because it's the only means where I could travel and visit the places that I have never been. Or meet and talk to the people I would like to, like prince and princes, or everything that I haven't yet experienced in real life. And especially It changed me someone whom I'd never be.

I read all the time and I sometimes feel myself entering into the story and living it. At times, this has happened and I just feel that I was wishing that I was in the book. I love to read and I can visualize what is going on in the book as I read. I have been reading since I was a young child who had a vivid imagination. I still have a vivid imagination, but now I can visualize better as I read my favorite books.

When I read a book, I want to be alone to imagine what is happening to the book I read specially love stories and suspense. My eyebrows raise when there is something to react. heheh!! Yeah it is weird but it's normal to me that is why I want to read books alone so that no one can notice that I look crazy when reading and I also talk to myself sometime when I react... ei....laugh if you like ok? that's just me.. haha!!

yea... i do that evretime i read a book..... i thought it was just normal.... i can see anything i read... exept for faces... i cant imagine faces.... just like when i draw... i can draw almost anything exept faces.....wierd huh?

Oh yes definitely! When an author is a good writer, the book really comes to life for me. Sometimes I have to put the book aside for a minute or two just to think about what's happening in it. Then once I'm done reading the book, I have to wind down too. In fact that's one of the reasons that I love a good series because each book gives more insight into the characters and their world and I love that! You get to live through their adventures, visit the places they get to visit, visit friends with them, solve mysteries, meet a new romantic interest or continue a long term relationship. It's great. I also like to re-read my books because I always find something I missed the first time.

not exactly, I do get involved, want to be there, want to talk to them, to interact with their world - probably why I started writing myself

Yes, that's the characteristics of a good book but you can feel yourself inside, seeing what a character is seeing and feeling what a character is feeling. The first book that did that for me was Harry Potter where I could practically feel Harry Potter and all his experiences at his school.

It happens to me everytime and I also love to get in the book to find character which suits me and to get mesmerised by the story sometimes, well it is wonderful to do so. I understand every single words as well as the characters and the techniques of writing.

Actually I was reading a book and it reminded of my past. It was a book about this deaf and dumb kid who grows up on a farm\dog kennel. I kind of grew up the same way, we had horses on our farm and other animals. I would do similar things like walking in the area outside of the farm, my sister and I would take the ski-doo out in the winter and we'd go toboganning down our neighbors hills too. When we got to be teenagers we'd go out skiing, cross country of course

When I'm reading a very good book, it's easy to picture in your mind eactly what is going on in with the characters in the book. Usually you'll pick the character you most love in a story and picture yourself as them.