Post by jastyne on Jun 25, 2021 20:36:41 GMT -5
When someone tells you to picture something in your mind, do you guys, like... *actually see* something?? The same way you can 'see'/visually perceive something that's actually in front of you? I keep wanting to say 'physically', but I don't think that helps answer the question I'm trying to ask. How different-- how much more or less concrete/vibrant is it than the visual field you take in? How is it different? Does it replace what you're seeing with your physical eyes? Where does it appear? In front of you??
I'm honestly feeling rather shaken up trying to process the notion that people can actually... see pictures? When I try, my eyes start looking around and are confused-- where would I see them? That 'camera' screen is taken up with what's actually in front of me.
If I close my eyes, I can better... picture things, but my picturing isn't visual at all. I wasn't conscious of the issue, because... in 'picturing' my mother, for example, I do feel her in such a way that I am aware she is blonde, has brown eyes, the way her face moves... I know those things, and I can kind of... feel the waves of those frequencies moving through me/my body, somehow?? I don't relate to the people who don't know what their loved ones look like, but I'm.... I "know" what they look like, but I don't actually see them... or anything?? I can see what's in front of me, or I can see black contrasted with dynamic light patterns of varying intensities that will fade into black. I've sometimes said I feel like I navigate the world like a bat or a dolphin-- with something like echolocation as my 'primary' sense, somehow.like I *feels* like, if that makes sense? I relate with the experience synesthesia, because when people talk about things like songs being a certain color, that makes absolute sense to me. Because that song.... feels like that. And most times, I seem to experience things that feel in line with other synesthesiac people's experiences.... because But I certainly can't actually... visually see anything.
I thought everyone was being... metaphorical, and meaning the same thing as me, or at least closer to it than is seeming like the case .I'm trying to understand and grasp the potential ramifications of this... I don't like the idea of there being perspective that I can't see. I'm uncomfortable
You can take a quiz I wouldn't count as reliable, but you can get an idea of what they're getting at and perhaps where you fall? I had one brief, flat, faded picture of a rainbow that I think might have flickered into my visual field for a fraction of a second, but that was all-- and I tried really, really hard.
Where would you say you fall on the aphantasia --- hypephantasia spectrum??
If you want to read just one thing, I reccommend this: www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-the-minds-eye-is-blind1/
I'm honestly feeling rather shaken up trying to process the notion that people can actually... see pictures? When I try, my eyes start looking around and are confused-- where would I see them? That 'camera' screen is taken up with what's actually in front of me.
If I close my eyes, I can better... picture things, but my picturing isn't visual at all. I wasn't conscious of the issue, because... in 'picturing' my mother, for example, I do feel her in such a way that I am aware she is blonde, has brown eyes, the way her face moves... I know those things, and I can kind of... feel the waves of those frequencies moving through me/my body, somehow?? I don't relate to the people who don't know what their loved ones look like, but I'm.... I "know" what they look like, but I don't actually see them... or anything?? I can see what's in front of me, or I can see black contrasted with dynamic light patterns of varying intensities that will fade into black. I've sometimes said I feel like I navigate the world like a bat or a dolphin-- with something like echolocation as my 'primary' sense, somehow.like I *feels* like, if that makes sense? I relate with the experience synesthesia, because when people talk about things like songs being a certain color, that makes absolute sense to me. Because that song.... feels like that. And most times, I seem to experience things that feel in line with other synesthesiac people's experiences.... because But I certainly can't actually... visually see anything.
I thought everyone was being... metaphorical, and meaning the same thing as me, or at least closer to it than is seeming like the case .I'm trying to understand and grasp the potential ramifications of this... I don't like the idea of there being perspective that I can't see. I'm uncomfortable
You can take a quiz I wouldn't count as reliable, but you can get an idea of what they're getting at and perhaps where you fall? I had one brief, flat, faded picture of a rainbow that I think might have flickered into my visual field for a fraction of a second, but that was all-- and I tried really, really hard.
Where would you say you fall on the aphantasia --- hypephantasia spectrum??
If you want to read just one thing, I reccommend this: www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-the-minds-eye-is-blind1/
I also have subclinical 'facial blindness'. I can meet a new person and talk to them for two hours but if I see them the next day in even a slightly different context I'll almost never recognize them. It's very embarrassing. But if I take a test for 'facial blindness' using famous people, I'll score 0, I recognize them all. Very frustrating. As for you, well, maybe enjoy the synaesthesia? I have very good memory for people's voices!
