Comprehension Exercises with Dylan - #2

This week we did visualization on a place my son had only been to once, a couple years ago. It was the Lido deck of the Carnival Ecstasy. I told him we were walking out onto the deck and asked him to go from there. I did not even tell him which entrance we were walking out onto. He animated it well. There were things missing from the deck, but I soon realized that he was seeing exactly what he remembered well there; the pool, the mini basketball court, kids playing.

It bothered me at first that he didn’t remember the tables and chairs, lounge chairs by the pool, the bars, and the stage. But what I realized was that it was actually perfect. It made the point and I could show it to him from there. We could both read the same story and see it in our heads completely differently. I explained this with passion. I told him that in a movie or show the actors portray the script in their own way, but when you read you are the director and the actor. I think he really got that!