>I have no idea how reading would work without at least hearing it though. If you told me to read without doing this stuff it would be like telling me to think

>I have no idea how reading would work without at least hearing it though. If you told me to read without doing this stuff it would be like telling me to think without having thoughts. Impossible. I read a lot - and the story unfolds in my mind's eye. But I don't hear the dialog as sound, unless I explicitly want to (if I wish to hear a sentence in my mind, using a friend's voice, I can). I don't even "read" the book (including the dialog), except at the beginning. When I get into the story it's just in the mind, I don't consciously read. And the dialog is also not voiced, it just "is". Which is one reason I've never felt that strange, foreign, or difficult-to-pronounce names are a problem (a complaint I often see in e.g. Amazon reviews). Never had that problem. And if I try to add a voice to a spoken sentence the reading slows down to "natural" speed, which is way way too slow for me. (As for hearing sounds in my mind in general - I'm very susceptible to ear worms, and I don't use a car stereo - if I want to hear music I just hear it, in my mind.)