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if you say you can remember details of people's faces etc then that is visualisation.. no?....as said above nobody physically sees anything unless they're looking at it or dreaming!
 
builder22 said:
if you say you can remember details of people's faces etc then that is visualisation.. no?....as said above nobody physically sees anything unless they're looking at it or dreaming!
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As the article suggests - ask yourself the question how many rooms are in <a place>, your room at work for example. Do you go through a shopping list "There's one by Jeff, one by the photocopier, one by the door" or do you imagine the room from your imagined/remembered perspective and just count them in the visualisation you just imagined/remembered?
 
Sounds normal, that's the way I remember/see things...I don't think anyone can hallucinate on command. Maybe in the 90s :p

I don't remember 99% of dreams but I can remember who was in them/ different objects etc, all based on things or a combo of things in real life/ daytime.

I don't like reading but it's just because I have no real interest in stories/fantasy etc. Rarely watch films too unless there's something in them that interest me
 
Yes I can visualise a beach pretty clearly. Colour of my towel to the palm trees on left. But i've worked in creative fields at various points so maybe it's just training.

Dunno bruv.

Edit: As someone else said they can visualise 3d objects, I had a play around in Blender (3d program) and I can imagine say a cube and imagine myself editing it and quite clearly see it in my mind...

Just another example.
 
Dave M said:
As the article suggests - ask yourself the question how many rooms are in <a place>, your room at work for example. Do you go through a shopping list "There's one by Jeff, one by the photocopier, one by the door" or do you imagine the room from your imagined/remembered perspective and just count them in the visualisation you just imagined/remembered?
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I can't differentiate those 2 ways of counting windows! I'd only remember the windows I've seen, and know are there. If that makes sense
 
Hmm.. I just asked a mate. His response..."If I'm reading a book and a guy goes in to a pub I don't construct a picture in my mind of a pub, with a guy in it, I just know what a pub looks like'....which makes perfect sense to me!
 
I'll ask....

If I imagine myself on a beach, I think about a beach I've been to or from a photo/film, I remember colours and details but I don't see it!
 
Yes, it amazes me. People can actually see an image of something they're thinking about?!

What I'm thinking is that 2% have a more clinical/less romantic way of describing how they 'visualise' something. Although that does seem a bit absurd!

Maybe I'm in denial!
 
They've tested people using MRI scans. Most people, when asked to imagine something have the areas related to visualisation and sight light up with activity. For those with aphantasia they don't.
 
Kreeeee said:
Yes I focus on the "nothingness" until I fall asleep, or listen to YouTube videos about weirdos who can't imagine things. I've never known any different though, so I'm not necessarily missing out as you would be if you suddenly lost the ability to imagine.
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Must be quite relaxing though, falling asleep to nothingness. Some people strive to be able to get absolute nothingness when they meditate.
 
Kreeeee said:
Have a read of the last link in my first post and see which side you relate to.
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There's a lot in that article I can relate to yes, but thinking of details vs thinking of the whole face/room I can't quite seperate.

Prob the most important one....
I am constantly lost :p No use with directions, walking or driving. I've always thought there was something in my brain not allowing me to navigate....I had a driving job for 10 years and learned the routes, stuffed if there were diversions etc tho. I've always assumed I'm just too easily distracted/not interested as if it comes to it I just use a map,or ask

But....I can definitely hear sounds in my head, I can think of the different intro/riffs/progressions etc of different songs, that's what goes through my head the majority of the time.

I can't draw

I don't get it when he says seeing black, but it also makes no sense to say you can see something other than recalling details to make the image.

I spell in a more muscle memory fashion.

This question:
5. Visualise a rising sun and look carefully at the details of that mental picture; how clearly do you see that sun rising above the horizon in a hazy sky?
Just has me thinking...eh? How can I answer that!

I guess like everything else there's varying degrees! of Aphantasia
 
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Kreeeee said:
Aphantasia is an absolute condition, everything else is just varying degrees of being able to visualise.

It's interesting that you can hear things that aren't there but you can't see them. I can do neither one.
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I've spent 1000s of hours playing guitar/piano and listening to music so maybe that's part of it... I guess I just have really low ability to mentally visualise.
 
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