chapotraphouse

I guess I'm like a 3 or 4? When asked to visualize an apple or a cow or a campfire or something, I can kinda manage it but only for a split second. I can't just hold an image there.

Hang on a sec, being a 5 is not the norm? The more you know... 🤯

Head explode, no apple!

Complete 5 for me. Also, I have an internal voice, but that voice is just me. Basically just putting thoughts into words so that I can express them, nothing different from whatever the "I" or "self" is.

For the record: I always score very high on tests of spatial memory, those tests where you are supposed to have to rotate objects to find the answer, and stuff like that. I enjoy reading fiction; I like reading more than watching movies for the most part. And in general don't feel like I'm missing out on anything, or that aphantasia gives me any problems thinking at all. I often can't tell who someone is from seeing their face, but I think that's the autism.

Besides beiing able to "see" most people have a inner voice that says things "out loud".

Now I'll give you one better, apparently there's levels to this too. One day I surprised my partner by saying that I can "hear" my throughts in any voice I wish, even accent (provided I know such accent).

Like when I remember or imagine anthing I have full visuals and audio. I still lack skill to acually articulate any of these things, so I still suck at pretty much everything I haven't practiced a lot.

This explains his books

I remember as a kid like 8 years old struggling with this not because I couldn’t visualize “the apple” but because I could but I didnt know how it was possible to visualize something without it being actually there.

Like I could (and still can) remember the feel, shape, taste, weight and smell of “the apple” and even play around with it in my head. Like I could image the sound of it hitting the ground, how itd feel biting into it, cutting it for apple slices etc.

Like all this shit I could not only imagine but feel the speculative sensation of it. Dunno I was a weird and bored kid.

I can play entire movies I've made up in my head but even though I know how long an inch is if I try to imagine what an inch by inch cube would look like in my hand my brain goes fuzzy.

Don't know how related is this, but when I started studying maths seriously I always used Desmos to graph everything, and tried to think how the graph would look before entering the function on it, to a point when I could kinda see the curve on my mind just by looking at the function. It was extremely useful during tests, being able to visualize the curve and have it help me with the problems, and is still useful now that I work in a math intensive environment.

I'm level 2 I can only visually imagine emojis for objects.

I’ve always wondered if this is a form of brain damage.

I can’t do much more than a vague impression for a split second.

Not only do i see fully visualized things, when I'm alone I visualize ideas so fully I start moving sometimes. It looks really really stupid so I don't do it when others can see me. Yes I have ADHD

I think I started around a 3 and made my way to 1 by using it all the time for depressive escapism. 3/10 experience, better than nothing - still not very effective

Fun to have, though.

i can picture/taste/hear/smell/feel if i try, but it's more like a memory than a truly active sensory experience in high competition with others... unless i force it and am drowsy. my family tells me my recall is insane, though. i think they overestimate it, because my recall for auditory is probably my strongest relative to theirs. i experience that as a mental echo. i use it when i'm trying to remember something distinct and complex for a few minutes... i'll say it out loud to myself so i can hear it and let it echo for my recall.

i had was near sighted (uncorrected for a while) as a kid, so it makes sense to me why that one is not as potent. but my recall and general experience of colors is rich.

also, having a few calm, chill, cerebral psychedelic experiences can open up meta-cognitive functions. kind of a little journey behind the curtain to see the active work being done on the stage to create the show.

I'm baffled that an author, who's entire fucking job is to visualize things in their mind's eye, both doesn't comprehend this and declares himself a 1 on this scale. Man writes fiction novels, how can he not at least consider himself a 2 or 3?

If someone says "think of an apple" out of the blue, I'm a 5.

If someone says "visualize an apple" I'm a 1-3 depending on how focused I am.

I've always thought this is because I have always been a big reader, and as a consequence, a bit of a speed-reader so it is like my brain is constantly set to "important information only" and I have to mentally set it back to "actually visualize it" because I tend to do the same thing when reading. I can be sitting here and read "Purple lightning split the sky and the ring of white roses was illuminated in the flash of light. I stood there, frozen, as I realized some of the roses were flecked with blood." & at normal speed, my mind will be like a strict 4-5. I can 'see' the scene but it isn't really complete or detailed.

Something like "Sekiro felt the rusted blade part the air behind him and twisted his body at the last second, moving out of the blade's path as he swung his hammer upwards into his attacker's chin" is even less likely to be visualized at all but if I read it even a bit slower - or just take a second afterwards, suddenly I become Sasuke in the Forest of Death

I CAN ROTATE A CUBE WITH MY MIND

I have the opposite problem where I'm a 1 and it seems more real than reality. Is that a problem? I can imagine things happening with full sights and smells more clearly than things that are happening right now. Real life seems distant and confusing.

I am autistic but I'm also prone to escapism.

Is this just dissociation?