When you read/process information...

I thought this was the way that everyone did it. I guess I was wrong... When I read, I have a tendency to be drawn into the book myself, taking the role of a character in the book. Visualizing yourself as the character, good or bad, makes you understand that character better. However, sometimes my imagination is a bit too vivid and I seem to lose track of the text and just make up my own stories in my head, just like Plainsman. When I come to, I have usually "read" a lot of text without actually reading it. Just passed over it, reading the words, but visualized something completely different.

When generally trying to visualize something in my mind there are some obstacles I can't seem to overcome, though:

I can't concentrate on keeping the same image in place, it's constantly changing and moving around. Most of the times it gets out of hand and the object, world or whatever I'm concentrating on transforms into something completely different than I first intended.

I can touch objects, feel the difference between cold and warm, even feel pain and sometimes I can smell stuff, but however hard I try, I just can't imagine opening my mouth and insert food, like an apple. It's like it disappears in mid-air right in front of me! If I use my hand to move the imaginary object and actually open my mouth, it's a whole different story, though, and it works out just fine.

I can't see everything clearly. It's like the imagery is shrouded with some kind of veil that makes it harder to see. The only times I actually can see things clearly, as clearly as in real life, is when I've just woken up from a dream. I'm half awake and starting to fall asleep, or half awake starting to wake up. A very limited time span, but I can do anything! Lucid dreaming? More like lucid thinking!

Jam it back in, in the dark.