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[Supercow]

A good question. Yes, but I make it up as I go along rather than having a preconceived image before I start.

I’d start with the basic shapes and concepts (e.g. a tree has a large central trunk) and then look at the drawing and as the missing parts to it (branches, leaves, etc.). It always looks like a child drew it and made loads of mistakes along the way.

I’m not sure what you mean with come up with something artistic. I can make some nice arts and crafts stuff with my kids that starts with a general idea and a selected bunch of resources to execute it. The process is iterative though and the result is often different from the plan.

When you draw can you not just compare your drawing to your mind’s eye and correct it to look the same? I can copy a drawing pretty well if I have the reference material in front of me.

Artistic was probably a clumsy word to use for what I meant. Let's say "creative" instead.

For example: In the past, part of my job as an analyst was to help conceptualise mobile apps or site functionality. I would take desired outcomes ( i.e: User was able to do X) and then turn those into high fidelity wireframes (drawings that's not design, but a good approximation of what someone can expect it to function like). I would form a picture in my mind of what it should look like, and then execute on that vision.

From your responses in this thread, it seems like you'd list out step-by-step what the user in the above scenario must do to get to the desired outcome, but how would you be able to execute on designing the above, if you can't visualise how it all comes together?

 

[Kreeeee]

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[dirtychinchilla]

I spent half of last night awake designing a bookcase in my head. I wish I had temporarily got what you've got for that.

 

[GGizmo]

I don’t recall seeing that thread (this one is from 2017) but I also have no voices in my head.

I found an article about it. I noticed in the article they link it to the same condition of the thread, Aphantasia.

Does everyone have an inner monologue?
https://www.livescience.com/does-everyone-have-inner-monologue.html

The lack of an inner monologue has been linked to a condition called aphantasia — sometimes called "blindness of the mind's eye."

People who experience aphantasia don't experience visualizations in their mind; they can't mentally picture their bedroom or their mother's face. Many times, those who don't experience visualizations don't experience clear inner speech, either, Lœvenbruck noted.

 

[Jean-F]

I’m not a beach person, is it okay if I dredge up a memory of lounging by the pool of a rented villa in Papeete, French Polynesia, sipping mango juice in the a.m. and switching to tequila salty dogs in the p.m.?
I can recall that, plus my wife going nuts looking for the corkscrew like it was last week, when it was actually the mid nineties.

 

[LeoK]

Complex one - if someone asked me about the windows in my house as per the video I can visualise them one by one in my head with a pretty fuzzy perception of each image wise like a fading dream. Visualising a beach at first pretty much nothing but after a couple of minutes I start to fill in the blanks and again have an "image" of a beach kind of like a fading dream not like looking at a photograph.

that’s pretty much how it is for me. I can crudely imagine it. It does somewhat feel like I am looking at it. But it’s not perfect

 

[ik9000]

Did you used to play with Lego? How did you find playing with it? Did you only ever make the proper models to the instructions or did you go off piste and create your own things?

 

[Freefaller]

Did you used to play with Lego? How did you find playing with it? Did you only ever make the proper models to the instructions or did you go off piste and create your own things?

That's a great question.

I was at a workshop recently where the icebreaker was lego... basically, we had 7 pieces of lego (which apparently you can create over 915m combinations) and asked to make a thing in isolation and we compared our "thing" with the rest of the group, and everyone had a slightly different take on it. It was interesting as the 14 or so of us had completely different designs for the object we were asked to do.

We were then asked in the space of 5 minutes to make this "thing" in as many different combinations / styles as possible - there were at least half a doze people there who claimed not to be creative - but they got right into it!

That was a bit of a tangent, but your example reminded me of that!

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Just came across this thread and realised that I’m also one of these people

I recall a lesson in primary school where we were asked to picture a red dragon. For the life of me I couldn’t see anything… and the teacher just got frustrated at me.

It’s one of the only lessons I can remember such was the level of frustration. I know my friends could all see the dragon and I was left thinking “I am broken”

 

[ik9000]

Just came across this thread and realised that I’m also one of these people

I recall a lesson in primary school where we were asked to picture a red dragon. For the life of me I couldn’t see anything… and the teacher just got frustrated at me.

It’s one of the only lessons I can remember such was the level of frustration. I know my friends could all see the dragon and I was left thinking “I am broken”

And having promptly been thrown out over the border you've never set foot in Wales since.

 

[Kreeeee]

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[ik9000]

I made my own things, that doesn’t require visualization to do.

Depends how you do it though. If you visualise it then make it that's different from sticking things together and seeing what happens

 

[rids57]

I spent countless hours as a child building with Lego and Mechano, rarely following instructions, I excelled at art in school, got an A Level in engineering drawing and even spent a good few years as a graphic artist - all without the aid of a mind's eye.

 

[TNA]

...do you actually see a beach in your "mind's eye"?

I don't. Everything is just black (because my eyes are closed) and I just think about the facts of being on a beach, the sand texture, feeling relaxed, warm etc.

I watched this video and my mind has been completely blown. I just can't comprehend that people literally see and hear things when they think about places and situations.

I'm now sat here wondering how I am able to function at all with literally no imagination. I might go have a lie down.

Edit: An interesting article that clarifies how I think about things: https://en-gb.facebook.com/notes/bl...s-to-be-blind-in-your-mind/10156834777480504/

Edit 2: I also don’t ever hear anything that isn’t really there, such as voices in my head (I guess this is why religion was made up), or hearing my own voice without speaking.

Wow. That’s crazy. I can close my eyes see and hear things. Vivid and in detail like having eyes open? No, but good enough. I use it like my own personal holodeck and it would suck not to have that ability.

Can you **** without porn?

 

[Kreeeee]

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