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You didn't answer my question
Shame, your first reply was epic, but now you've become needy, it's lost its value.
Interesting. I literally see a yellow post-it with the info written on it.
That IS interesting. Do most here remember numbers etc in this way?
I don't remember most numbers this way. Just the ones in the mind castle and a few more.
This is insane. People can actually see stuff when they shut their eyes? So, if you were asked to imagine your partner you could see them? I can recall her features, can think about her eyes and cheeks and hair but I can't actually see her.
People can?!
People can?!
Watched a few more videos on it, there's a good (and short) Ted Talk on it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arc1fdoMi2Y
It's the most bonkers thing ever isn't it? I shut my eyes, it's darkness. I can't see colour, shapes or anything. Just black. I can think "ah, her nose curls out a bit and her fringe is straight" but I can't see anything.
If I had seen a picture of you, and could remember it, I could close my eyes and see you any time I wanted. I could put your head on the body of patrick swayze in road house and make you do anything I wanted. I wouldn't, of course, but I could. I imagine most people can, maybe some of your friends are right now.
Picture is firing its way over to you right now, Dave Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I don't even really need to close my eyes, I can for instance imagine the drive to work or the walk up to my parents house like a little video. Quite often people walk into my office and I'm staring at the roof, I am actually designing in my head what I want to draw on solid works/pro engineer before I even start on the software......that's what I tell the boss anyway.
As i have said before i don't even have to close my eyes...
I think I'd be lost without my imagination. I'm always imagining incredibly detailed scenarios in my head to take away the pain of real life.
I also imagine detailed scenarios, but they're not visual. When I was a child, I would insert myself into the story in the book I was reading and make up a branching story from that, based on what I had read but with me in it. Part of the reason I'm still enjoying Fallout 4 is that I'm making a story from it, imagining things like showing a visitor from the wasteland around the settlement I'm building. Part of how I design, build and decorate settlements stems from that imagined event in an imaginary world. It's not that I lack imagination. It's that my imagination lacks a visual component. Anything a person "sees" is an interpretation of data from their eyes mixed in with some video/image editing in their brain, some data from their memory and, to a large extent, what they expect to see. I can skip the visualisation and go straight to the interpretation. Good thing, since I can't visualise anything.
So there's variation amongst those of us who can't imagine visually.
That's indirectly reminded me of something. Synathesia...synthesthesia...bah, I'll have to ask the duck...synaesthesia. Input to one sense being copied over and interpreted into another sense. Not quite what you describe, but similar. Some people have it all the time - they see sounds, smell colours or whatever. It sounds strange and confusing, but it's not because you're just getting interpretations of sensory input like you always do. Sensory input that's not actually there, but it's presented to your consciousness in the normal way so it's normal and thus not strange and confusing. If a certain sound is a certain shade of green, well, that's how it is. I've had it when taking LSD...which brings me back to the topic of this thread because I could then visualise imaginary things and "see" them in the way that apparently almost everyone can do normally.