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One of my favourite all time threads.

Still blows my mind people can't imagine

This.

I was actually lying in bed other day thinking about this thread. I was imagining how I want to assemble some wooden bird cages i'm making... I was visualizing how I wanted all pieces to slot together like those 3d build animations you see on youtube.

The fact some people can't do that is so odd.......
 
3 - I recall dreams (normally nightmares) about 4 times a year. I wake up knowing I've had a dream and what it was about, and I am aware that I could see things in the dream, but I cannot visualise anything that happened.

That sounds crazy, so I guess you are capable of visualising stuff in your mind, I mean you do it in dreams but you're not able to willingly do it on demand.

Were you any good at art, design etc.. at school or did you struggle with those subjects?
 
Only read the first post (not watching the video) but to answer yes I do actually imagine a proper beach. This is what I think about when I am lying in bed struggling to sleep. Lying on a beach, or actually in the water, all I can hear is waves. Soon fall asleep. :)
 
1 - I am very good at knowing if I've seen a face before, and I can tell you features such as a mole of length/quantity of facial hair. I make a list of facts about the face.

2 - I could give the list of facts about the face, and then correct the artist when I see the final image. I couldn;t describe the face in a way that would enable someone to sketch it first time.

3 - I recall dreams (normally nightmares) about 4 times a year. I wake up knowing I've had a dream and what it was about, and I am aware that I could see things in the dream, but I cannot visualise anything that happened.
Very similar to myself.
 
I dream in full detailed technicolor, it's as real as real life but I can't consciously visualise anything. When I dream they are quickly forgotten on waking as there is no visual data remaining for me to remember. When I try to visualise something, whether it's a scene or an object I get an instantaneous flash image in my mind that seems to contain all the details I need but is gone as quickly as it appeared. I was actually very good at art as I could visualise direct to whatever medium I was using and even worked for several years as a graphic designer :D
 
Kreeeee wouldn't be very good at imagination Christmas by the sounds of things:


I feel I'm the opposite to be honest, there are times where I can be distracted very easily and start to drift into a bit of a daydream, I don't even need to close my eyes for that :D

That being said I don't think I have much of a creative side to take advantage of it, or that I haven't found the correct way to express it yet.

I can have very vivid dreams, being able to recall every detail when I've woken up. It's also presented a few weird things as well, such as having sense of de ja vu whilst in my dreams and when waking up. Some are definitely repeated dreams but I don't know where the feeling comes from sometimes, it will usually trigger me into realizing that I'm dreaming and wake me up.

If I haven't had much sleep and have to quickly get up the sometimes my mind is almost stuck on a loop, there's been occasions where I'm constantly repeating the same thing in my head until I come to in the shower or something.

I think the worst one though was back when I was a teenager, I'd dreamt that I had a full normal day at school, nothing out of the ordinary. I'd gone down to my mum's market stall after school like I normally did, we went to Tesco and did the shopping, got the bus home, had dinner, everything I'd do in a normal day. I'd even gone to bed in the dream. I had this at least two or three times, on the final time I woke up before I'd gotten into bed in the dream and was extremely confused what had happened, I couldn't get my head around the apparent skip in time and having no memory of it. I was utterly convinced that the repeat dreams were real events.

It was a slow upsetting realization that they weren't real as my mum had actually died several months prior, I literally had to get up and check things around the house to convince me that she was in fact gone. It was utterly confusing and heartbreaking but thankfully I've never had dreams like that since.
 
I can still remember the particular smell every time i'm reminded of a gate that i used in nursery some 38 years ago! I can remember the slide latch of the wrought iron green double gate (perpendicular not side by side). For years, everytime it has appeared in my mind, or o have driven past it, i instantly get this smell in my mind, very difficult to explain. But yea, i can 'see' things in my mind quite easily. In the same vein of my first point, i can 'smell' Bangkok when i think of being there too. Horrible sewage mixed with pollution and food smell haha.
 
Yeah I have no minds eye never really thought about it till someone asked a month ago...

Although one down side to it is you can't visualise people's faces like missed loved ones or your kids that your not allowed much access to... Suppose that's what photos are for :rolleyes:
 
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