Voices or Images or Nothing, oh my ...

What do you experience when you read?

Some people say that they generally hear the words of the text in their heads, either in their own voice or in the voices of narrator or characters; others say they rarely do this. Some people say they generally form visual images of the scene or ideas depicted; others say they rarely do this. Some people say that when they are deeply enough absorbed in reading, they no longer see the page, instead playing the scene like a movie before their eyes; others say that even when fully absorbed they still always visually experience the words on the page.

 From the comments:

This is only very slightly a propos, but just after reading this blog post I was struck by this from Auden's The Dyer's Hand:

"One can read Shakespeare to oneself without even mentally hearing the lines and be very moved; indeed, one may easily find a performance disappointing because almost anyone can with an understanding of English verse can speak it better than the average actor or actress. But to read Racine to oneself, even I fancy, if one is a Frenchman, is like reading the score of an opera when one can hardly play or sing."