/lit/ - Literature

When reading a novel, how vivid are the pictures you conjure in your mind's eye?

My imagination has become kinda stagnated after years of not reading, a few months ago i picked up a novel for the first time in a long time and found it difficult to vividly imagine anything, even though I'm used to daydreaming often. Especially the faces of the characters, at best it was all like a half-remembered dream. Now after getting through a few books I'm slowly regaining some of that ability, the characters i imagine have gone from B movie caricatures of how they were intended or real actors my mind keeps forcing to cast to actually in some cases impressive visions. I'm still sometimes having issues with picturing places, they tend to keep kind of a disheveled and patched together appearance of a not very vivid dream. Overall I'd say i have a decent visualizing ability, though it's not as concise and consistent as I'd like it to be.