Thread: How do you visualize your role plays?

Krimson said Mr Quixotic said Krimson said I don't visualize - I can't. I once read an article of someone who shared the same plight, that author had a very good description that I'm going to repeat. Picture a red square, can you? Well I can't. Logically I know what a square is and what red is, but I can't combine the two in my mind. I can kind of, if I really try, picture a square, but as soon as I try to add red it all falls apart. That said, I approach rp the same way I approach everything else, deduction and induction. I try to figure out what my character, given hisher inclinations and background, what do in any given situation, and go from there. Heaps and heaps description helps, at least in my experience. Click to expand... Hey Krimson, you'll see that we're in the same boat from my post above. And I think I know where you may have seen the red square example. This is a link I posted on my journal only a few days ago , written by someone with whom I share many similarities. I've found quite a few people don't really get what you mean when you say you can't visualise - a woman at work even said that I must be 'missing a creativity gene' she soon found out just how creative sarcasm could be. For me, when people say they're actually able to see pictures in their head, it's as if they're talking another language. Click to expand... Yep that's the one! I don't remember how I stumbled across it, but it was eons ago. Pretty cool coincidence. I have to second you there, I don't think my inability to visualize takes away from my creativity. Well, then again, who knows how creative I would be if I could visualize? So I guess I lack the sample size for that assertion...hmm. But, I have done visual arts for a number of years. And, while I'm by no means spectacular, I consider my works fair. So I don't think lack of visualizing is hurting me too much in the creative category. That said, I do wish I could visualize though. The author of that blog thing said he was naturally attuned to music, but for me, I can't hear music in my head either. The closest I've came to song stuck in my head is being able to hear a single line from the chorus. Would be cool if I were born with those talents. D I would waste so much time visualizing pink dinosaurs and other silly things! Click to expand... I spent a lot of time googling before I came across that link, and book-marked it. I wanted to find out how common it was, and I think the fact that there was very little to find on the net says that it is fairly uncommon. I'm the same, I love photography, and have been told I'm fairly talented at it. Because I can appreciate an image when I'm looking at it, I just can't retain it once it's gone. Sometimes I do wish I could, to experience reading a novel like others do, and be able to 'see' the characters, and events unfold. However, I think it has it advantages too. I don't know if you're the same, but when I think of a place I've been, rather than seeing it, I 'sense' it and re-experience original emotions sometimes just as strongly, sometimes not. I was also told in a random pm today that my writing 'adopts a unique sense of prose' and my reply was that because I have no visualisation ability, I need to compensate for it in other ways. It looks like, from what you've said about how you approach your stories that we're similar in that way as well. As for the song thing, I'm with you, but it's bloody difficult to try and describe what you mean. The other strange thing is that we're also on exactly the same page in regards to the bump I gave your thread ages ago. Now I'm sensing pink dinosaurs, but I still can't see the damn things!