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Ahleckz said:
No, if I was to draw a clock then I'd remember that it would be a circle with numbers around it. Some hands. Perhaps in a cabinet or something. But no, I wouldn't be able to picture what I wanted to draw and then replicate that.
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See I couldn't replicate something either and if I think in that way then I start to doubt my ability to imagine images and think I must just be doing as you describe and knowing what the constituent parts are.

But I think the reality is somewhat different for me at least. Best way I can describe seeing images with my mind is like one of those magic eye 3d images. If I relax then somewhere at the back of my mind the image is there, but if I try to concentrate on it or focus on the detail then it all disappears into a blur.
 
Pretty much read/thought about this since Saturday, couldn't quite accept that people can picture things so vividly ....but there's def no visuals when i try to produce a 'mental image' , it's all just details.... .
When i think about it I can hear anything I try to 'in my head'.. a song, accent or whatever so presumably people can conjure up mental images the same way

I asked my dad if he can picture things in his mind, just said no!....when I asked him to think of a beach he said the name of a beach he's been to because he knows it. Asked him if he's tried counting sheep to get to sleep...said the same as I've always thought...it never worked, it's just counting! Can't see sheep

asked a mate about the sheep - he said he could 'see' a realistic photo image, grass, type of fence, dry stone wall.trees ...could change it if he wanted to. When he's counting them he sees 1 sheep at a time that wanders in, the rest are out of sight!

another friend said he could see AND taste food when he thinks about it!
 
Kreeeee said:
This might explain why I find reading books so dull. When something is described I just get a list of facts about the place. Do others see a real image of the place/object being built up as the description continues?
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Yes.

If I didn't it would be a bit boring.

So when you read something like: "The Orc came charging over the hill top, the Hobbits barely had a chance to react before Sam got thrown to the floor, crashing his head and knocking him out"

Can you not paint a picture in your head? Surely you can to some extent, as you must have SEEN a visual reference of an Orc at some point in your life? Along with a hill?

Hell, whilst writing that it was playing out in my head visually :p
 
Kreeeee said:
I see nothing, absolutely nothing. All I think is that there is an orc, some hobbits, and that the one called Sam got knocked out.
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But you've seen an Orc? Plus a person, plus a hill, and someone cracking banging their head on the floor?
 
Weird. I can definitely visualise, hear and to a lesser extent smell and taste things. The latter too tend to be random rather than forced, ie I'll suddenly taste or smell something I've been thinking about but I wouldn't be able to do it on demand.

Those of you that can't, what are your dreams like? Ah, that's been answered.
 
Kreeeee said:
This might explain why I find reading books so dull. When something is described I just get a list of facts about the place.
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I've always attributed this to the reason I dislike reading, I can't form the image in my head - Also why I do not learn well from text.

I also very rarely recall dreaming.
 
Logsi said:
If you had an altercation and had to recall and describe people involved to the police, how would you do it? Would you remember facts about a person in a split second altercation? I would imagine what a person looked like.
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I find this very difficult to do, I really struggle when asked "What does he/she look like?".
 
I can imagine a beach just fine with eyes open, not sure why you need to close them for that.

Imagination isn't somehow activated by closing your eyelids.
 
Delvis said:
Yes.

If I didn't it would be a bit boring.

So when you read something like: "The Orc came charging over the hill top, the Hobbits barely had a chance to react before Sam got thrown to the floor, crashing his head and knocking him out"

Can you not paint a picture in your head? Surely you can to some extent, as you must have SEEN a visual reference of an Orc at some point in your life? Along with a hill?

Hell, whilst writing that it was playing out in my head visually :p
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I just hear it as a narrative of things that are happening,like a radio broadcast
 
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