u/last-tangerine-2681

Anytime someone is talking or telling a story, I actively visualize what they are saying and the scene plays out like a movie in my head. I’m just now realizing how distracting that is sometimes and how maybe it causes me to be a bad listener sometimes since I get distracted seeing what they say. Sometimes it’s easier to not look at the person i’m talking to because it is less distracting for me to hear all of what they say if I don’t pay attention to their face too. It also makes things uncomfy when someone tells my about their imitate life because I literally see all of it. I feel like sometimes the movie like visualizing can cause me to see more instead of hearing and then I miss some of what’s said. (Because I was watching the movie in my head that’s being described and lost focus on their words) Anyway to turn the visualizing down some so that I can be a better listener?