Subject: Answerves!
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Posted on: 2016-05-26 15:25:00 UTC
Do you read/write while listening to music?
When reading? Absolutely not. It's impossible for me to concentrate on the Words if other Words are being thrown into my ears. Even lyric-less music is way too distracting, since my brain then tries to follow along with the notes.
When writing? I . . . can. I usually wouldn't, but sometimes if I'm writing a mission or regular fan story, I'll listen to something off a related soundtrack. Again, it cannot be something with lyrics, or they will distract me from the words I'm trying to put down. (I do remember in school I could listen to lyric songs while working on nonfiction essays and such, and it often made me work faster. But that's because I had no emotional investment in those . . . things.
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
Again, same-universe soundtrack or nothing.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head)
Very, very, very much. When I'm reading, there is no doctorlit anymore, no more background, only what's happening on the page—only it's not a page, it's a world.
A particularly jerkish student at my high school commented once, as I read an assigned novel at lunch, that I "read slow." (He should have said slowly, of course. Tsk, tsk, and at a prep school, too!) I guess the whole visualization thing makes me slower? Although I can't imagine that most people read by skimming; I prefer to believe he was just being a jerk, as per usual.
Do you dream in color?
*remembers dreaming about branches with green leaves being in the animal food fridge last night*
CONFIRMED
Do you remember your dreams?
*remembers remembering*
CONFIRMED
Do you have recurring dreams?
You know, it hasn't happened in years, and I don't remember the actual events anymore, but I do remember having sequels to previous dreams when I was younger, sometimes years apart. When I was particularly young, I kept having dreams about skeletal zombies being pretty much everywhere around me. Fun times.
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
Psh. I need mostly break. With all the time I spend at work, I want nothing more than being home alone at my computer during off time. I'm at the point where I don't even want to hang out with family or friends anymore, just because it ruins my alone time. I do feel guilty about it, but I just really, really need to be alone.
Which school subjects come easily to you?
My best subjects overall were generally literature courses and science courses, although there were exceptions both ways. Organic chemistry, physics and biochemistry were terrible, because they're only barely science and wildly uninteresting to me. English classes for me were an excuse to get reading for homework, and then BS some nonsense for the essays/exams for grades. But sometimes, I would get a teacher who ruined it for me by wanting us to be far more analytical of themes and metaphor and such than I tend to be when I read. Reading is only for entertainment, people!
—doctorlit needs to start breakfast now