Stories are my life, I am and have always been entrances by all forms of art. I can't walk away from a movie, I can't stop a song before it's done, and in no way can I ever not finish a novel. I'm a writer so I'm used to seeing the scene so vividly in my head, it's like I'm there as some omnipresent god watching the world unfold and then transcribing that into a novel form. So it's pretty normal for it to work the other way too! :D

This happens to me all the time. Particularly when I find the book to be amazing. My recent one is Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. It was originally a mini-series he wrote for BBC, but they edited it and watered it down a lot. I haven't seen the show but read the book, and I have such a specific way of how the characters look to me, that when I finally saw a clip one character looked nothing like I had evisioned. I also find myself becoming so engrossed with a novel, that often it is really only when people phyically touch me that I snap out of said novel. To me that is a sign of a good author and a good book; if you can get a reader to become so into your novel that they have to be phyically moved in order to get out of the world you have created, then you have written a veryy good novel.

Ah! Getting lost in a novel is the best ever. I do it weather I like a book or not. Though that isn't always that good. I don' usually picture the character as described. too often i form my own vision of the character depending on how they act, and things they say. There are not ever really based on people I know. Or places I know. As with locations. I picture everything vividly while they are describing it, but that image fades when there is interaction of any sort. It ends up as a blur of the colors that were there in my head. When I really like a book I don't blink, and sometimes start reading out loud without even noticing it. I never form a whole picture, and even after seeing a movie made out of a good book I picture whats in my head. Often I end up reading for hours that only seem like minutes, and before I know it the books over. All I can think to myself is 'Wow I thought the book was longer then that.' but really I just read fast when I'm really into something. I even get to the point were I have to stop and actually conscientiously read slower so I get everything. :)

Deffinately. And it's the best feeling in the world, being ripped away from reality. Sometimes, the only thing that would take me back to the real world is the glow of the sunrise. :D

Lol, I do that with every book I read.

Yes, All that happens
it's one of the main reasons i read books
to get lost in it...to make a new world, different from this...to just get lost and imagine the possibilities...to just think differently.