When you read a book do you...

[Guinastasia]

I usually imagine myself as a seperate character interacting with the ones in the book. Not myself but a different character that I think would be ‘helpful’.

I thought I was the only one who did this!!!

I always imagine myself as another character, and “I” deal with things that annoy me. Like “I” would tell off an annoying character that everyone else is afraid of.

[WV_Woman]

I don’t imagine myself in the story at all. I just read it.

Ok, ok, I’ll admit it. I think Mordecai in the book of Esther was a total badass and I’ve pictured myself sitting at the city gates staring down Haman …

But that’s the only time. Honest.

[Zebra]

*Originally posted by Guinastasia *
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I thought I was the only one who did this!!!

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I’m so glad that I’m not the only one. I took me some time to work up the nerve to post this thread but then I thought, “no, surely there are some dopers who do this too.”

[Lyllyan]

*Originally posted by Alto *
**I usually identify like mad with the narrator or point-of-view-character–so much so that as I child I remember getting very snappy with my sweet, inoffensive mother because I was reading a book where the main character had a very prickly relationship with her mother.<snip> **

Do you ever get so lost in a character that you find yourself thinking “Hmm, you know, so-n-so was looking for something like this”, then realize you a shopping for an imaginary person? Or telling a RL friend, “A friend told me something about X”, only to realize that you are referring to a book.

I do have a life, I really do. I’m just really empathetic.