This happens to me in the start of the book. But after I get really absorbed, my interest in the plot simply urge me to understand what's going on.
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Do this all the time. It's more common with ADHD but everyone experiences it I think
I have the same problem with audio books. There I am, driving along, and then think "what the hell is going on in this story? Who are all these people?"
Admittedly, that probably says more about life than the story, but hey 🤣
Always to me, read a page then re read the page. Dyslexia doesnt help either
No but I listen to a lot of audio books and I read/listen to a lot of fantasy and sometimes fantasy worlds get a bit complicated. So I've learned to not start a new one until I can really pay attention for a while. Otherwise the new magic / concepts may bounce off me.
Attention span issues. If I stick to my diet my attention span is great but eat carbs and I can't finish any task lol...
That happens when I'm tired. Sometimes my head falls into the book as well, I see it as a subtle hint my body gives me to hit the bed.
I got like 800 pages into Gravity’s Rainbow once before I realized I had no idea what I was reading.
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I do this with everything from reading to watching youtube videos etc. I have to pay special attention to really understand what I'm even reading/watching sometimes. My goldfish memory doesn't help at all
I'm writing a book. How can I better avoid this to make the reader understand what's going on? I've been considering bolding the names of characters and places the first few times after they've been introduced.
While also having little intermissions where the characters consider the next best option (while sounding organic, of course)
What else?
Every time I have to try and read procedures for anything.
Normal for me at least. I think I have adhd. Never got it diagnosed though
Business books do this all the time
This happens to me all the time.
Constantly for me. I reread or give up
I think it's pretty normal. It's probably similar to zoning out while driving and suddenly realizing you were on autopilot. We're able to do a lot of things without active focus.
Sadly, all the time.
Lol yep, or when I'm playing a story heavy game / vn. I think I get distracted by my thoughts and then have to refocus myself 😅
Yea it happens all of the time. The mind wanders
I do this all the time, I thought it was just me when I was younger
It happens to everyone to varying degrees. It's a phenomenon similar to highway hypnosis (where you forget completing large sections of familiar drives), in that you are consciously participating in the activity but not commiting enough processing power for your brain to deem it important enough to encode.
Reading becomes so practiced it's simple, comprehension is another matter entirely.
This has happened way too many times, especially in many books. This makes doing a lot of my assignments a lot more difficult and often has dissuaded me from reading. I am trying to get better at reading, so I got myself some more books (that I'll read sometime in the future maybe) and combining it with some music or white noise to prevent me from zoning out.
I used to be able to entirely loose myself in reading for hours, whether the book interested me or not, because I was just passionate about reading. Nowadays my ADHD (and partially my anxiety) has become so bad that I can barely get through one page while seriously paying attention.
Yeah, quite common. Used to happen to me even in my bookworm days
Books, tv, movies, YouTube even. Especially if I'm multitasking with programming.
Depending on the style of writing, when you are reading a book where you are putting yourself into a narrative.
Sometimes that narrative immediately envelopes you and you turn each page pulling you to the end of the story wanting more.
Sometimes it takes a little longer with the cogs of the story being just a bit bigger or smaller than your minds cogs. If the write too specifically without bringing in context that the reader can enmesh then the gears never turn and the book doesn't become a page turner, the reader tunes out.
I think sometimes editors cut content in the opening chapters of books to cut down word count so there is more at the end chapters to end the story well but at the cost of understanding at the outset of the adventure.