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We Don't All Have a "Mind's Eye" | Aphantasia

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@mikecremona7810
@mikecremona7810 4 жыл бұрын
"oh I don't have that" * spends 10 min unsuccessfully trying to imagine a red apple
@DanielNyong
@DanielNyong 4 жыл бұрын
No way
@Megan-ii4gf
@Megan-ii4gf 4 жыл бұрын
lmao same
@MelodicTurtleMetal
@MelodicTurtleMetal 4 жыл бұрын
Same. I'm also not sure what I should expect. Am I supposed to have focus on it? It's seeing black failure? I'm not sure I understand how vivid these people claim they can see something in their mind. Like dream clear?
@duckwatching5429
@duckwatching5429 4 жыл бұрын
Just imagination not actually real
@emeralddragon1144
@emeralddragon1144 4 жыл бұрын
@@MelodicTurtleMetal there is a scale 1-5 of how vivid or not at all nothingness, outline, slight colour, details, lifelike. while awake 1-2, and for me dreams are 3-4
@mrejj04
@mrejj04 4 жыл бұрын
So are there people with no internal monologue AND no mind’s eye? Are there people who have quiet brains? What’s that like?!
@andyh9382
@andyh9382 4 жыл бұрын
It’s like if you’re watching a show someone asks you what you’re thinking about. I say nothing. My mind is blank expect for what I happen to be watching/doing. This is not 100% of the time. But a good majority.
@kristofersokk1580
@kristofersokk1580 4 жыл бұрын
@@Crootcovitz I think they're connected in the way that having one increases the chances of also having the other, but they're definitely different things.
@Theocloud
@Theocloud 4 жыл бұрын
I don't have either except when really needed. If I really need to memorize a number for example, I can say it in my head, but that's about it. I'm never talking "to myself" the rest of the time, but I can imagine discussions with others.
@JackLawson11
@JackLawson11 4 жыл бұрын
no thoughts head empty
@kristofersokk1580
@kristofersokk1580 4 жыл бұрын
I have a limited mind's eye (no colours, same with dreams) and no inner monologue whatsoever. It's quite zen tbh
@rjdrakon2492
@rjdrakon2492 4 жыл бұрын
I was shocked some years back, when my wife told me she could close her eyes and see things, like watching a movie. I always thought was just an abstract concept. She was equally surprised I could not do it.
@DanielNyong
@DanielNyong 4 жыл бұрын
I’m so shocked. “Don’t think of a pink elephant”. Doesn’t work for you.
@Fitzkrieg
@Fitzkrieg 4 жыл бұрын
I always just thought they meant think of the word
@shannonmanning6166
@shannonmanning6166 4 жыл бұрын
She might be having Closed-Eye Hallucinations, which is not a psychosis. I have it, and it's part of my bedtime relaxing routine. I did some research on a whim a couple of years back. Imagine my surprise, when I found that not everybody can do it.
@Slekejkwls-1819
@Slekejkwls-1819 3 жыл бұрын
Ask her if she can _actually_ see it like if it was outside here mind or see it _inside_ her mind (if she can actually see it she wouldn't be able to tell it apart from the actual world if she doesn't she would). Some people don't have the separation so everytime they imagine it seems real instead of a foggy non-directional unrealistic imagination
@rjdrakon2492
@rjdrakon2492 3 жыл бұрын
@James Taylor hahaha
@gladyss11
@gladyss11 8 ай бұрын
I was actually shocked to learn people could see anything with their eyes shut. I only see a black screen over dark blue. Always. Nothing else.
@Cici11107
@Cici11107 6 ай бұрын
Me tooo! I just realized i have alphantasia😢
@maddies757
@maddies757 3 ай бұрын
Just to clarify, visual memory has nothing to do with your eyes. I can imagine things whether my eyes are open or closed and actually sometimes it's easier to keep them open and just unfocus them while I'm thinking of something. I don't actually see images on my eyelids when I close my eyes, I see black as well. The images are in my brain.
@travellerundertheleaves
@travellerundertheleaves Ай бұрын
​@@maddies757 I experience the same thing.
@hazeinthehill
@hazeinthehill 19 күн бұрын
@@maddies757good explanation, i think some people misunderstood thinking that people can see an image on your eyelids. which (from what i understand) is not true. I see a black screen with blue/purple wave forms. but when i try to imagine a picture i "see" in my brain a faint visual of whatever. but that "seeing" is just within my brain, not within my eyes.
@MildredCady
@MildredCady 14 күн бұрын
I recently heard about aphantasia recently and I’ve had it all my life. My brother doesn’t. And now I have a phrase to describe the word salad that exists in my brain all the time; verbal scaffolding.
@Jessica-xo5vj
@Jessica-xo5vj 3 жыл бұрын
It took me 17 years to realise “picture this “ wasn’t just a metaphor 😂
@darkdragoness5
@darkdragoness5 3 жыл бұрын
I know, right?
@alan4sure
@alan4sure 3 жыл бұрын
Huh! Odd😁
@Ansemite
@Ansemite 3 жыл бұрын
Same with counting sheep. What sheep!? There are no sheep!
@AndreaCrisp
@AndreaCrisp 3 жыл бұрын
Yep. I took a yoga class in college to help relax and meet the requirements of taking a physical exercise course. I dropped out for several reasons, but a big one was not being able to picture anything in the mediations at the end. It was stressful vs relaxing.
@NK-ct2nl
@NK-ct2nl 3 жыл бұрын
45 years for me
@OceanAbyss_
@OceanAbyss_ 4 жыл бұрын
I've never been able to do that, and just assumed nobody could... welp
@elibrooks6348
@elibrooks6348 4 жыл бұрын
Same
@IanSmithKSP
@IanSmithKSP 4 жыл бұрын
My brain graphics card is pretty weak, but still accurate. I can only render something for like a split second. I imagine visual rendering is very costly in energy
@bobbobber4810
@bobbobber4810 4 жыл бұрын
@@IanSmithKSP Maybe if you train it you would be able to do it easier after a while.
@IanSmithKSP
@IanSmithKSP 4 жыл бұрын
Bob Bobber I use it A LOTT. It’s as good as it’s gonna get
@immortal2318
@immortal2318 4 жыл бұрын
Do you have dreams?
@JerryFlowersIII
@JerryFlowersIII 4 жыл бұрын
If I were to answer how many windows are in my house I would mentally walk around my house.
@MsMarmima
@MsMarmima 4 жыл бұрын
If I know a place, I can re-create parts of it in my mind, but I've never actually Seen it. More like consolidating information into a mental 3d model.
@dallasrover5515
@dallasrover5515 4 жыл бұрын
I would, too, but I wouldn't see it. I would feel myself walking around it, and maybe even hear my footsteps, I could point to where I know the window would be, but I can't see it.
@rek8193
@rek8193 4 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I did during the video. I had a thought checklist and I went down the list from room to room counting windows.
@brainwater176
@brainwater176 4 жыл бұрын
Dallas Rover but I’m sure you do see your house in dreams which leads me to guess that aphantasia is the lack of controlling your minds eye. Not the total lack of the mind’s eye.
@KiltedSatyr
@KiltedSatyr 4 жыл бұрын
Its hard to say exactly how I know it. I'd say it is definitely a memory. but it is almost like proprioception, the sense of knowing your body's position. I just kinda know. its like I sense them. I have 12, if you count the door window. I can usually learn the layout of a new house very quickly and can move around through it in the dark with what seems like above random success
@crowd3r862
@crowd3r862 Жыл бұрын
I recently discovered that I suffered from Aphantasia, even though I don't consider myself to be suffering in any way. It's hard to describe what I don't see, because my imagination uses my memory of having seen these things previously to get a vague idea of what something might look like, even though I don't see a thing. For instance, when I picture an apple I know what an apple looks like - I've seen them before. I know what red looks like, I've also seen that before. I just don't see a red apple - I see a black canvass with nothing on it - also know as the back of my eyelids.
@flarps387
@flarps387 Жыл бұрын
Ш don't see a very clear picture "like in a movie" when I think about things/events; they appear as if they are very deep but close to my eyes. For example, I can't imagine someone eating an apple for a very long time; it's more like a gif. I can imagine different variations, a drawn apple or a real one, but seeing thoughts is not as pleasant as watching a real movie. But I don't know how you can live without your inner voice. If I need to swear, I swear hahaha
@Itssdahi
@Itssdahi 11 ай бұрын
Exactly the same as you, I tried to explain that but you explained way batter
@Aftershock888
@Aftershock888 10 ай бұрын
The space inbetween the back canvas and your memory is the minds eye. With deliberate practice your imagination can get better.
@snowflake-dg3fl
@snowflake-dg3fl 10 ай бұрын
lol even I discovered that with an insta shorts explains why my memory sucks XD
@TheSarahJane33
@TheSarahJane33 9 ай бұрын
This is how it is for everyone. The people who say they “see” something see it in their imagination. Not literally right before their eyes like a projection on the back of their eyes.
@andarted
@andarted 4 жыл бұрын
Someone: _"Do not think of a purple elephant."_ Me: _"Okay?"_ Someone: _[smirks]_ Me: _"Now what?"_
@seanathanbeanathan
@seanathanbeanathan 4 жыл бұрын
Me, confused but thinking about the Concept of an Elephant that is Purple: ????
@501meganinja
@501meganinja 4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@roberttomsiii3728
@roberttomsiii3728 4 жыл бұрын
The one I saw had more red than blue pigment.
@victorclabaugh1373
@victorclabaugh1373 4 жыл бұрын
Lol at least it's not pink
@wjrneo2
@wjrneo2 4 жыл бұрын
@@victorclabaugh1373 I’m sorry. Elephants on Parade has to be one of the most freaky Disney animated sequences ever made. And I can’t explain why as an adult. But as a child, no likey!!
@PlanetPsych
@PlanetPsych 4 жыл бұрын
Aphantasia: "A life without mental images" When people with aphantasia read novels they can't really visualize the images, but they can develop an emotional connection to the story!
@cruzcastillo6227
@cruzcastillo6227 4 жыл бұрын
yep
@ponchoshop854
@ponchoshop854 4 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, that makes sense
@omghighlights1366
@omghighlights1366 4 жыл бұрын
Can people with aphantasia be artists?
@dtaggartofRTD
@dtaggartofRTD 4 жыл бұрын
@@omghighlights1366 Definitely. just requires some trial and error to figure out what looks right since it's harder to think it out ahead of time.
@mixiekins
@mixiekins 4 жыл бұрын
Yes! This is why reading stuff with complex scene descriptions puts me to sleep. It breaks my heart because I have to rely on movie adaptations.
@Kevin-iu8hl
@Kevin-iu8hl 3 жыл бұрын
As an artist who never had a mind's eye, it was heart breaking to learn that everyone else did.
@strawberry_gf
@strawberry_gf 3 жыл бұрын
do you dream in images?
@rileywaghorn6225
@rileywaghorn6225 3 жыл бұрын
I also have aphantasia and some people can cure it and develop a minds eye with a technique called image streaming
@TheHotaru93
@TheHotaru93 3 жыл бұрын
Same here...
@rosesareblue73
@rosesareblue73 3 жыл бұрын
Same here
@AtarahDerek
@AtarahDerek 3 жыл бұрын
For what it's worth, while I can imagine things quite vividly, I cannot, for the life of me, put those mental images onto a canvass. I can draw just fine, but what I have in my head acts as the storyboard and what's on the canvass is the final product. Except that the quality of the work is inverted; what I put on a canvass looks like a storyboard in comparison to what I have in my head. And it is SO frustrating! It's a big part of my perfectionism, and you probably don't deal with perfectionism quite the same way I do because you don't get overly attached to the ideas in your paracosm. Though it would be interesting to know how you might deal with perfectionism in other ways.
@jamesongorman8531
@jamesongorman8531 Жыл бұрын
It actually dawned on me earlier today just how crazy of a concept “minds eye”/inner monologue, both of which I have, truly is. I can imagine my own voice, other peoples voices, songs, movies, anything. I can hear it, but I can’t hear it. The mind’s eye is even stranger to me. I can picture an apple, rotate it, turn it upside down, peel it, I can make it change from fuji to golden delicious to granny smith. I can see all of it crystal clear, while at the same time I can’t see it at all.
@Itssdahi
@Itssdahi 11 ай бұрын
Exactly, that's what I was thinking, like I can see it when I want, but I don't actually see it like, I can differentiate the imagination from my mind to real world, because it's not like I have screen in my mind that have everything colored, but I can imagine what would the color look like, for example, when I start imagining a red apple, firstly I choose a place on where will the apple be, for example my home on the table, something that is familiar, is usually the option that I pick, then the apple gets placed there, outlined then instantly the 3D design of it is filled up, with it's texture and that, almost like doing a project in blender, that obviously happens in just seconds, then I try to put the color at the end, all of this I can imagine it, but then I suddenly remember what is the place of the imagination is coming from, it will be that dark pitch black background after closing my eyes or something like that, so it's still weird for me
@Shadowmech88
@Shadowmech88 11 ай бұрын
"while at the same time I can’t see it at all" I think this is the hardest part to explain, especially to people who lack the ability. When you see something in your mind's eye you're not literally seeing it in a way that's indistinguishable from reality, but it's like you have the impression of seeing it. The best way I've thought to explain it is that if literally seeing something is like eating food, then visualizing something is like smelling food. Same goes for "hearing" one's inner speech vs literally hearing actual speech.
@jamesongorman8531
@jamesongorman8531 11 ай бұрын
@@Shadowmech88 a weird part of it for me that i just recently remembered was how when i was little i had it and it was still pretty strong but it was almost like i couldn’t totally control it, like if i imagined a skateboarder going off a jump and spinning (i played a lot of thps) after they landed and were supposed to stop they would just continue spinning like some strange glitch. idk if that’s weird or not 😅 have you had that or anything similar or heard anyone talk about it?
@Shadowmech88
@Shadowmech88 11 ай бұрын
@@jamesongorman8531 I can't say I have. The closest concept that I can think of is intrusive thoughts, where unpleasant/morbid thoughts pop into one's head largely outside of their control. Personally, I've always been in full control of my mind's eye as far as I can remember.
@thealmightyduck335
@thealmightyduck335 11 ай бұрын
Ironically, it's boggling to think about how complex the brain really is. Even more interesting, the idea of you, a brain, thinking about itself in a way that even makes itself confused ("you" in the collective sense).
@generalZee
@generalZee 3 жыл бұрын
My high school girlfriend told me that when she saw a movie it would get translated into a description, and when people talked it was kind of like she was reading their dialogue. Books were just the natural order of the world to her, while in my brain every book, even a dry instructional manual, gets transformed into a movie or game tutorial in my head.
@AfroSnackey
@AfroSnackey 3 жыл бұрын
This the one.
@loolfactorie
@loolfactorie 3 жыл бұрын
Same, it's extremely had to "imagine". My ex was the same; I wondered how she enjoyed films if the instant it was gone, she couldn't vividly recall it.
@deehatcher8713
@deehatcher8713 3 жыл бұрын
I was always say I have a DVD mind.
@Nezha_Main
@Nezha_Main 3 жыл бұрын
When I listen to a song my brain makes an entire action movie for the song.
@Limpass610
@Limpass610 3 жыл бұрын
@@Nezha_Main bruh When i try to imagine for some reason its like a color blur, i know i could do it way better in the past But when im daydreaming, shits vivid asf. Sometimes i even catch myself playing songs in my head louder than my surrounding. Now not so much becausebi have earphone all the time
@Daymare_666
@Daymare_666 4 жыл бұрын
I'm 32 and I just discovered I had this a few weeks ago. It's not like learning I have a disorder, it's more like discovering that most people have a super power that I don't have.
@syber-space
@syber-space 3 жыл бұрын
I found some serious benefits to Aphantasia too though. Not having to deal with reliving memories, getting to experience something more akin to seeing something the first time again, having an easier time understanding abstract concepts, being more able to "live in the moment", etc. Definitely seems like I'm missing out on something, but since I can't imagine what it is I don't let it get me down too much.
@Daymare_666
@Daymare_666 3 жыл бұрын
@@syber-space, I have a theory that we can't suffer from PTSD, since we can't visualize that traumatic event again.
@syber-space
@syber-space 3 жыл бұрын
@@Daymare_666 From my talks with others, it seems you can still suffer from PTSD, but it's physical, rather than "flashback" style. Freezing, increased heartbeat, panic, etc. but no visuals. I don't suffer from it myself, and I do suspect that it's less common for aphantatics to have, but from those I've talked to it isn't quite immunity.
@ashleyhanson1269
@ashleyhanson1269 3 жыл бұрын
@@Daymare_666 I have PTSD and aphantasia. My PTSD triggers are mostly auditory, but can be visual. Lots of PTSD treatments involve visualization, which wasn't effective for me, but EMDR, which is sensory, has been very helpful in managing my symptoms.
@Madara2B
@Madara2B 3 жыл бұрын
An overactive imagination can be debilitating. being scared of fake situations one has only seen in their head...
@zacharynelson2856
@zacharynelson2856 4 жыл бұрын
Wait wait wait.... people can see stuff? In like their head?
@wesleygreenhow8843
@wesleygreenhow8843 4 жыл бұрын
you guys are seeing things in your head?
@SilentBudgie
@SilentBudgie 4 жыл бұрын
@Medicinal Blood Do you literally see things that you imagine? Like are they overlaid on your field of vision, blocking your view of the objects behind the one you're imagining?
@Theinventormind
@Theinventormind 4 жыл бұрын
Yes! Welcome to the club!
@Medic47
@Medic47 4 жыл бұрын
@@SilentBudgie Nope, literally I can imagine anything I want in as much detail as I want. Kinda like having a dream. I've had dreams so realistic and so detailed I thought they were real momentarily after waking up. I can still see, kinda like having both at the same time but you can't 100% focus on both. Sight and imagination don't overlap, but generally, you can't focus on both in detail at once.
@TheBabaloga
@TheBabaloga 4 жыл бұрын
@@SilentBudgie No, it's about whether or not images are involved in the sensation of thought. If you can mentally move around your house to count the windows in each room by remembering how the room looks you don't have aphantasia. Otherwise you probably do.
@SvafaBlackhand
@SvafaBlackhand Жыл бұрын
As someone with aphantasia, one of the things I've had to learn is that I have to be mindful of what I describe or say, especially when telling a story. This comes up in regular life sometimes, but I really discovered it when playing rpgs with friends. It had never occurred to me that they could, and would, literally visualize something if I described it. This could lead to much more visceral reactions than expected, and took me a little while to figure out why, because for me it was just an amorphous concept on a checklist.
@ravinraven6913
@ravinraven6913 Жыл бұрын
yea some peoples minds can imagine the worst stuff, so people should always watch how they say things like they will say something like poop and even before describing something else, we have a bad immage in our head of you pooping till you continue the descriptions...its kinda the main reason people read books, if you can't imagine it, then theres no point
@dreadsndogs4406
@dreadsndogs4406 Жыл бұрын
​@@ravinraven6913I read books all the time without being able to imagine it, I also love writing fiction, so there is absolutely a point in reading books even without the ability to visualize
@mainstream2226
@mainstream2226 Жыл бұрын
I visualise everything without input on my part, so whatever someone says my brain will conjure a mental picture of regardless of how sweet or gross, kind or absurd, pretty or objectively horrific.
@TheRealMycanthrope
@TheRealMycanthrope Жыл бұрын
​@@dreadsndogs4406I'll take your word for it, I wouldn't see a point to reading if I couldn't visualise. Like ok, I read a description of something; now what? Without the ability to visualise it's just ink on a page.
@drodsou
@drodsou Жыл бұрын
@@TheRealMycanthrope I always wondered why books spend so much time describing in detail scenes and how people look or dress... until I learned that many people can actually picture that in their minds :-).
@rfichokeofdestiny
@rfichokeofdestiny 4 жыл бұрын
I could never figure out why my parents were grossed out at dinner when I’d bring up roaches, or dog poop, or other such things. It took a long time to find out that they involuntary “saw” those things when I talked about them. To me, they were just words.
@catbeara
@catbeara 3 жыл бұрын
OH! Is that why people freak out so much about gross topics when eating?! That has always confused me.
@rfichokeofdestiny
@rfichokeofdestiny 3 жыл бұрын
@@catbeara It would seem so. At least there’s two of us. 😏
@syber-space
@syber-space 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I guess that does make sense. Never really thought about that...
@donuts3476
@donuts3476 3 жыл бұрын
My little brother has aphantasia and he said cheese boogers. And after that day I didn't want to eat cheese for days. K I just grossed my self out imaging people eating boogers. Skdjwbfjdj bye
@donuts3476
@donuts3476 3 жыл бұрын
Also I was eating cheese macaroni so I was so grossed out
@ManyThingsIDo
@ManyThingsIDo 4 жыл бұрын
Everyone watching shows and movies made after a book: "That's not how imagined the characters!!" Me: "Imagined? :o "
@Vaith
@Vaith 4 жыл бұрын
Well sometimes they even just change the characters appearance. You can still tell the difference if a character was described as blonde and ends up with brown hair. But even though I have aphantasia I can still select features of people I've seen and attribute them to a book character. It's clunky and I often do google searches of people discriptions to fill my memory banks. So when I read I get an idea, but the visual adaptation is always never what I construct and it throws me off. 👁️👄👁️
@aperson7899
@aperson7899 4 жыл бұрын
@@Vaith I believe I have slight aphantasia(self diagnosed so take that as you will) for me my mind always glosses over visual details like they are completely unimportant when I read In addition to that my imagination is very much non-visual and is more concept based to the point where anything I imagine is more a concept than anything (actually writing this down I'm starting to wonder if I actually have aphantasia or if I just don't find visuals important)
@EddieAdolf
@EddieAdolf 4 жыл бұрын
Right!? I can 'deduce' what the character may look like, but it's a chain of logic based on experience... not mental imagery.
@danieldeelite
@danieldeelite 3 жыл бұрын
I've always wondered why authors described characters. I always attributed it to humans being really superficial. It never occurred to me that most people need to simulate a picture in their brain. Every time I got to the point in a book where they were describing how people looked I was always thinking, okay weirdos.
@Doomsword0
@Doomsword0 3 жыл бұрын
@@danieldeelite This is so interesting to hear
@TheMrMe1
@TheMrMe1 4 жыл бұрын
I always thought sayings like "minds eye" and "imagine" were metaphors. Like sure, imagine an apple. I know what an apple is. I can conceptualize an apple in my mind. I just can't see anything that's not physically, actually in front of my eyes. I had no idea people actually visualized it - "saw" it in their heads. Suddenly, mind palaces made more sense to me. As did the meditation sessions I had to take in PE class in school. "Imagine you're on a beach. Hear the waves crash on the shore" etc, I was never able to do that. There was no beach, no waves, so how was I supposed to hear them? Oddly enough, I do dream visually. I can also get earworms and manipulate their volume to an extent. On one hand, I feel as if I'm missing out. On the other, I'm used to the way I am..
@InezAllen
@InezAllen 4 жыл бұрын
@Some_Guy_632 I don't know what the OP of this comment experiences, but for me things are stored in my head with a list of attributes, so an apple is "roundish, green red or yellow, has a stem on top, sometimes is a gradient between two colors" but there is no like, visual of an apple, it's all just words
@TheMrMe1
@TheMrMe1 4 жыл бұрын
@Some_Guy_632 It's kinda hard to explain. I have a "feeling" of what an apple looks like, if that makes any sense, but there's never any imagery at all. I don't really have a list of words like Quincy, just this feeling. If I'm asked to imagine a blue apple, well, I have a feeling of what an apple looks like as well as what blue looks like, but for me to actually fully get the concept, I'd have to see a picture of a blue apple. That's what I mean by conceptualize. I can "imagine" a blue apple insofar as I know what those two concepts are seperately and I can kind-of-but-not-really smash them together, just non-visually. I hope I'm making any sense at all 😆
@luminalsaturn2
@luminalsaturn2 4 жыл бұрын
Earworms? You mean tinnitus (ringing in the ears)? I have tinnitus, and Mother of various deities does it ever get loud sometimes!! It’s multi-tonal, too, which is extra annoying. XP
@NovaSaber
@NovaSaber 4 жыл бұрын
@@luminalsaturn2 An earworm is music that gets "stuck in your head".
@wolfferoni
@wolfferoni 4 жыл бұрын
Wait, you can manipulate the volume of earworms? So can you quiet it down and think about something else at the same time? I think for most people, earworms are just a bit louder than normal thoughts so we can't hear anything else when we get an earworm, which is why they're so annoying.
@broncokonco
@broncokonco Жыл бұрын
I realized I had aphantasia prior to 2010 in high school when someone would quickly say’ “Don’t think of a purple elephant!” And most people would say it was impossible. For me, all I thought of was the term “purple elephant”, but I didn’t imagine one at all. I can spend hours with someone, and unless I made a specific observation related to their hair for example, if you asked me their hair color afterword, I wouldn’t know.
@Aneenvw
@Aneenvw Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I would suck at giving the police someones description 😂.
@HweolRidda
@HweolRidda 6 ай бұрын
​@@AneenvwOn the otherhand I think there are suggestions that people with aphantasia make better witnesses of events. They don't "see" things that weren't there; either they saw and remembered something that happened or they didn't.
@zackorion
@zackorion 4 жыл бұрын
It took me until i was 29 years old last year to realize that when someone said "Now picture this..." they were being literal and telling me to ACTUALLY visualize something. After a while of reading on the subject i came to learn I have Aphantasia less than a year ago.
@leomadero562
@leomadero562 4 жыл бұрын
I doubt that, not due to anything you said but because i believe many people have a misunderstanding resulting from words like "picture this" and people "seeing things" in their head. Can you imagine going from your room to the kitchen and grabbing something from the fridge? I don't mean like a movie playing in your head, just the fact that you can think about going from your room to the kirchen. Normal people don't actually see things, despite what many people say, it is all just a misunderstanding from the double meanings of words. I can just see darkness with my eyes closed, nothing else, but i "know" what an apple looks like for example. A lot of things like "turning the apple over in your hand" are just metaphors that try to make it easier to imagine
@MelodicTurtleMetal
@MelodicTurtleMetal 4 жыл бұрын
@@leomadero562 you picturing an apple in your head sounds like me, but most people apparently can actually see an apple, almost like a dream figure. I think as a young child I could somewhat do this, as I remember imagining and actually visually seeing a motorbike weaving between trees, poles, etc while driving. I think it got so bad that at one point I was frustrated that I couldn't look out the window without seeing that, and it was distracting. ... I think that happened 😐. Other than that one memory, I can't recall 'seeing' something when I shut my eyes.
@bilbobaggins5938
@bilbobaggins5938 4 жыл бұрын
@@leomadero562 You have aphantasia.
@kscg2993
@kscg2993 4 жыл бұрын
I am 58 years old and just realized this year that other people could actually see something when they closed their eyes. Mind blown.
@MelodicTurtleMetal
@MelodicTurtleMetal 4 жыл бұрын
@@kscg2993 yeah, but can picture your mind being blown? They can...
@anoyint
@anoyint 4 жыл бұрын
Just wait for the comment section to be filled with people realizing that they have aphantasia
@BleuSquid
@BleuSquid 4 жыл бұрын
Hahah, right? I'm in a couple fb groups on the topic, and there's someone joining pretty much every day going through this realisation. It's fun to watch. (And they even sometimes still surprise me with a realisation I hadn't yet made myself)
@perrydowd9285
@perrydowd9285 4 жыл бұрын
I can see it all in my mind's eye.😂🤣
@michaelposey3321
@michaelposey3321 4 жыл бұрын
Perry Dowd y’all mind see’ers be out braggin today 😂
@perrydowd9285
@perrydowd9285 4 жыл бұрын
@@michaelposey3321 If you got it, flaunt it.💃🤭
@damien4197
@damien4197 4 жыл бұрын
I mean, I've known about this since the late 90's... actually came about because a Wiccan was trying to describe to me how they did a spell: "picture yourself sitting under a tree, then slowly have a bubble expand outwards from you..."... I was like hold up, you lost me at that first part. Started asking everyone else if they could actually see an apple when they thought about it, and they got really confused when I told them I couldn't. Wonder how many thought I was just lying O.o
@HandsomeDevil456
@HandsomeDevil456 Жыл бұрын
I remember reading this meditation book, and it said something like, "Imagine you're descending a ladder". No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't imagine anything. Some time after that, I realized I simply cannot visualize images. It's nice to see that there are others like me. I'm strong in math and logic but weak in creative things. I've wondered if having aphantasia has anything to do with that. I do dream though and I can hear my own thoughts. The way I remember images and events is I remember information about them. For example, "He was wearing a red hat" might be something I remember. But there's no visualization of a person wearing a red hat. It's simply a piece of information that I remember.
@JoeNoshow27
@JoeNoshow27 4 жыл бұрын
My mind's eye is weak. I see only vague, hazy things. This especially plays into memory. I remember the emotions of a situation, but I can only visualize brief glimpses. It always baffles me when people can recount a memory as though they're reliving it. On the flip side, my inner monologue is strong. I'm constantly having conversations with myself. Edit: It's been a real pleasure reading everyone's responses. I used to think maybe I was weird. But it goes to show that, for all the ways in which we're similar, we're also all very different. Inevitable really, given that we're hyper-complex organisms, evolutionarily fuelled by random, genetic mutation.
@wolfferoni
@wolfferoni 4 жыл бұрын
I think I'm the same as you. I see vague, hazy things as in, if someone told me to visualise a red apple, I'd see a red apple but there's no solid outline and it's pretty blurry. It's not like the way it's shown at the beginning of video where a 3D apple turns into 2D. It's kinda like watching things in 144p except worse. When it comes to memories, I don't see slides in the sense that it's a static image but rather, a few seconds of a situation. And yes, my inner monologue never seems to end. Despite a weak mind's eye, I daydream and imagine situations a lot, although it's mostly focused on conversation.
@asvarien
@asvarien 4 жыл бұрын
Same here.
@wigoow1206
@wigoow1206 4 жыл бұрын
I do have some hazy images too, but they are like lighting strikes in the middle of the night. A split second of a vage impression, not more
@itisdevonly
@itisdevonly 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, my mind's eye is there, but not very detailed. When I dream it's often lacking in details or very dark. I have had vivid dreams before, but they are the exception rather than the rule. I remember one dream where it was as vivid as real life, I was wandering around a crowd of people at my high school and everything was in vivid detail. It was a lucid dream, so I knew I was dreaming, and I was just astonished that there was so much detail, as if I were seeing things in real life. It's really rare my brain can conjure up such detailed images.
@ajuntapall6193
@ajuntapall6193 4 жыл бұрын
Oh don't worry, I have no problem feeling the cringe from past situations even without seeing them!
@jahalr6598
@jahalr6598 4 жыл бұрын
And there are some like me who cant figure out whether I have aphantasia or not . I dont see anything ,but I feel like I am looking at a very hazy cloaked image of what an apple looks like
@Masterplan79th
@Masterplan79th 4 жыл бұрын
that's it, you have it.
@JonathanMartinez-eh8zt
@JonathanMartinez-eh8zt 4 жыл бұрын
That’s still visualization, I would say you don’t have aphantasia. Just because you don’t see a vision in the physical world of an apple doesn’t mean you are not visualizing. I’m not sure anyone can do that. I don’t claim to be an expert, take it with a grain of salt
@jahalr6598
@jahalr6598 4 жыл бұрын
@@JonathanMartinez-eh8zt @Masterplan79th all right the polls are in . Alas it is a tie. Let's see if someone else weighs in and can end my confusion once and for all 😂
@Theocloud
@Theocloud 4 жыл бұрын
You and I have partial aphantasia I think
@Theocloud
@Theocloud 4 жыл бұрын
There is such a thing as partial blindness so I think partial aphantasia would be the equivalent term
@pipphd
@pipphd 3 жыл бұрын
It’s very comforting to hear that other people struggle with visualizations as well. I have to work extremely hard to visualize anything verbal and always need to use an physical image to draw from. When I do visualize it’s only for a fleeting second before it’s just darkness again.
@samuelyoung1236
@samuelyoung1236 3 жыл бұрын
This seems to be my experience I didn’t know others had more
@the.eleutheromaniac
@the.eleutheromaniac 3 жыл бұрын
I totally hear you, that's exactly what happens to me
@ferris6219
@ferris6219 3 жыл бұрын
I remember i had that when i was in 5th grade i was really good in geometry but now im 20 and i cant really see like that anymore or im having a Bad time seeing things in my thoughts
@Miners666
@Miners666 3 жыл бұрын
When I read a book for me it’s like a movie playing, I no longer see the words or pages, but when doing artwork I still need a physical image or object to draw from. I think that it is two separate abilities.
@jordan6622
@jordan6622 2 жыл бұрын
It's like a quick image for me sometimes I can imagine it more than once and can only sorta visualize things with my eyes open allot harder with my eyes closed, just thought I'd share.
@TheOftedal
@TheOftedal Жыл бұрын
I only realized that I thought, memorized and "visualized" things differently well into my thirties. When people told me to visualize something I never knew they meant it literally. "You actually see a stuff in your head? What did you smoke? You're all tripping!". I was never good at recognizing faces and I always thought I had a shitty memory as I never seemed to be able to remember my past as vividly as everyone else. I have extremely vivid visaual dreams but it's "lights out" as soon as I wake up. It is fascinating to me that most people experience the world differently. The interesting part is that I am creative and work with visual design and I have an eye for colors, architecture and interior. But when I construct a creative idea in my head I imagine the abstract concept of it intead of visualizing it with my "minds eye". I have an internal verbal discussion regarding how something should look, act and feel instead of visualizing it. This always worked fine for me so it never put a stop to my creativity. I guess we all learn to compensate especially when we are born this way. Fascinating stuff!
@leishac3367
@leishac3367 Жыл бұрын
This was incredibly exciting for me to watch. My whole life, my every thought was connected to visual imagery. I loved creative writing because it played out in my mind like a movie. That was until 2003 when I was in a car accident and received a severe concussion. Among other side effects, I lost my visual imagery. After 20 years, I have found "work-arounds" to be able to write again. But it is very difficult. The movie screen is forever dark. No doctor has understood this. But now I know it's real and I'm not alone. Thank you.
@Starkl3t
@Starkl3t Жыл бұрын
That's wild dude. Maybe you have a superpower now you just haven't realized yet.
@bureaffari3694
@bureaffari3694 Жыл бұрын
@@Starkl3t had*
@marioluigi9599
@marioluigi9599 Жыл бұрын
Please explain, because I don't get the whole minds eye thing, especially when you're reading a story... Cos if you already see a whole place inside your mind from just like one sentence, like say the inside of a candy store, but then you continue reading the description and it describes it in more detail, doesn't it continually have to change? How does that work? and like let's say it was nothing like you at first thought it was... then what? Like the whole place flies out of your vision and you get a whole new thing altogether? I don't get it. For everyone else like me, you have to build up the idea step by step. You don't get a whole thing straight away What about tasting the candy inside the store? Is the whole visualisation in 3D at all? If you can see it, can you also use your other senses like tasting it or smelling it? Or do you "suffer" from atastia and asmellia?
@leishac3367
@leishac3367 Жыл бұрын
@@Starkl3t LOL the superpower of adaptation.
@leishac3367
@leishac3367 Жыл бұрын
@@marioluigi9599 HI. Well I can only speak for myself and my own experiences. I have never been able to imagine or recall the precise taste or smell of something. So I can't speak to that. As for the visual, of course it would change with additional information and context. Working with your example of a candy shop. My favorite shop is small, quiet, dimly lit, offering mostly chocolates and brittles, giving it an almost monochromatic feel. So that would be my first image. Today I can't close my eyes and see it. But I can give a general description because memories are a thing. Now let's say the next line describes the candy shop as a large open space, bright and airy, with an explosion of colors. Obviously my mental image would change to incorporate the writer's desired vision. These days, since I can't "see" what I'm talking about, I tend to describe things more by the feelings they evoke in me, or the tone or vibe, if you will. I hope that helps.
@pax7081
@pax7081 4 жыл бұрын
"Picture a red apple." Literally picturing the cover of a random Twilight book even though I've never read one.
@gaylecheung3087
@gaylecheung3087 3 жыл бұрын
Actually a Macintosh came to mind
@thehods4
@thehods4 3 жыл бұрын
Newly discovered I have aphantasia. When I read where you wrote "Twilight book," I didn't picture the book, but remembered it in my memory. Previously, I would've said I "pictured" it - but I now know that most people ACTUALLY PICTURE IT🤯 Lol, mind blowing.
@cplhobs6045
@cplhobs6045 4 жыл бұрын
Anyone else find out that they have this like me, I thought minds eye was just a metaphor for something. Didn’t realize people are actually walking around with pictures in there head all day
@syber-space
@syber-space 3 жыл бұрын
Kind of? For me it was just I never really considered it. I assumed that the feeling/sense/idea of the thing being thought about was the same thing as imagining.
@rogerwheaton6653
@rogerwheaton6653 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, finally when I was 78. I was married 51 years but it is impossible to picture my wife. She used to get annoyed if she came home having gotten a different hair style because I had no reference image in my mind of her hair earlier. This also made my education all through pharmacy school terrifying. As soon as an instructor said anything it seemed to be instantly gone, so I took notes like mad till my hand cramped.
@CJ-ew9mq
@CJ-ew9mq 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's like the whole "Get that image out of my head!" Or "Why'd you have to put that image in my head?" They say it cause they automatically started picturing it once it was mentioned That's scary though, you can't remember words after they've been spoken?
@rebeccacummings6697
@rebeccacummings6697 3 жыл бұрын
@@syber-space same
@johnlarkin2748
@johnlarkin2748 3 жыл бұрын
Yes we do... Also music. I can play a song, not brand new but a song I have listen to 20 time or more and play it back in my head, skip to the chorus or isolate the vocals. Then play the song on my guitar... not always exact until I play along to the actual in the real world recording but enough to get the gist of it. Same thing with images, movies. I can recall images of my childhood, what people have said to me and emotions and create phantasy worlds in an instant. Things that are repeated or memorized are easier to bring up in my minds eye. I am a building manager currently and I know where almost exactly (except for when someone moves something and doesn't put it back where it was designated by me or tells me or shows me the new location) everything is in regards to janitorial and maintenance tools, location of said tools is photographed and placed in my brain for instant recall. I am asked where something is located and most of the time it's exactly where I last remembered it. Unless some else didn't put it back where they found it. PUT THINGS BACK WHERE YOU FOUND THEM, PLEASE! Just saying, finding things is a waste of time and money.
@rudolphteperberry3888
@rudolphteperberry3888 8 ай бұрын
Sounds well trippy to me that most people can see things that aren't there just by closing their eyes and imagining!
@musiclover666100
@musiclover666100 3 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad this is being talked more about now. I'm an art major, and you'll hear people go, "oh, visualize this as blue instead of gray, does it have the same effect?" (this happened last week, and the closest explanation I can think of rn) and of course I don't know since I have no idea what it would look like because, I can't visualize it.
@michaelkaminski1166
@michaelkaminski1166 2 жыл бұрын
What kind of art do you make and/or study?
@musiclover666100
@musiclover666100 2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelkaminski1166 right now I am just taking printmaking, but I've done drawing, painting, and photography. I'm mainly seeing what medium/tools I like to work with best
@patsk8872
@patsk8872 Жыл бұрын
Maybe aphant is one reason I am terrible at drawing.
@dbix11
@dbix11 Жыл бұрын
I have a pretty decent minds eye and inner monologue and I have zero artistic ability. It's not from a lack of trying though
@kylesadirtbag5937
@kylesadirtbag5937 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like art might not be the career for you
@joshuab4586
@joshuab4586 4 жыл бұрын
I always thought I was weird or misunderstood when movie characters would say stuff like “I can barely remember her face, it’s all blurry now” because I just couldn’t picture someone’s face and actually see it. I’m able to like create something in my mind and remember it’s features for building it later, but I don’t visually create it, just kinda feel it
@luukvanoijen7082
@luukvanoijen7082 4 жыл бұрын
Same, wtf lmao
@EnderElectrics
@EnderElectrics 4 жыл бұрын
I'm so confused isn't that the same for everyone?
@klounpound6945
@klounpound6945 4 жыл бұрын
@@EnderElectrics no. Turns out people think differently. For example some people can't here their inner voice.
@EnderElectrics
@EnderElectrics 4 жыл бұрын
@@klounpound6945 so you can physically see an apple in front of you?
@klounpound6945
@klounpound6945 4 жыл бұрын
@@EnderElectrics I think with my inner voice. Tho if I focus on something hard enough I can visualize things. But I have to focus on it to see anything
@seanathanbeanathan
@seanathanbeanathan 4 жыл бұрын
"Verbal scaffolding" THAT'S EXACTLY IT 😂😂 that's such a good description of how my brain works
@gabumonboys
@gabumonboys 4 жыл бұрын
Bet you didn't See that one coming.
@seanathanbeanathan
@seanathanbeanathan 4 жыл бұрын
@@gabumonboys Eye-
@smoothe14
@smoothe14 4 жыл бұрын
I called it my idea fence. It is a metal fence and all my ideas kinda link together in a weird fence way. If that makes sense.
@seanathanbeanathan
@seanathanbeanathan 4 жыл бұрын
@@smoothe14 I describe memorized information about my hobbies similarly!
@naturalnashuan
@naturalnashuan 4 жыл бұрын
@@seanathanbeanathan Me too, but I think of it as more of a verbal checklist or decision chart.
@MsMary-mg3ho
@MsMary-mg3ho Жыл бұрын
Wow! I just turned 59, and this was the first time I realized this is an actual condition. I have a really hard time picturing things. It also means I don't have a very good sense of direction. My sister can find her way somewhere if she's been there once, but I have to have a map almost every time. Even to somewhere that I've been many times, I can get anxious when I have to go there alone because I don't remember where it is and can't "picture" where to go in my mind. I think this is also one of the reasons I have a hard time with meditation practices. It's just amazing to figure this out! If someone says "picture an apple," I can remember seeing an apple, but I'm not actually picturing it in my head. Who says you can't learn something new every day!
@kingconstantinusthesadisti133
@kingconstantinusthesadisti133 Жыл бұрын
Its not bad for you. For some people, if their inner voice too powerful, they will end up as crazy people who lose complete control of their sorrounding.
@CaffeinatedTigress
@CaffeinatedTigress Жыл бұрын
I want to say I don't think aphantasia contributes to a lack of direction. I definitely can't picture things in my mind, but I am probably one of the few people out there on the road that isn't reliant on a GPS. I can tell you where I am at any given point in my state capitol - however there are a few spots that will throw me for a loop. I always say there's something weird about those spots - either entire blocks that my brain just refuses to acknowledge... or roads that I swear I'm facing west, but I'm actually facing south. I had friends test me with a compass when we were in the woods one summer when we were working on a movie. They'd blindfold me, turn me around and around then face me some random direction and I could accurately point out north. Every. Single. Time. I was never wrong. (and before anyone tries to say "you could tell where the sun was, etc" - Nope. In the woods, lots of tree coverage, blindfolded, spun around. They did everything to try to put me at a disadvantage. Did it at night a few times too. I know which way north is because when I'm facing it, I have this weird feeling in the bridge of my nose. It's strong enough that I can't sleep if my bed is aligned east/west - because I'm a side sleeper and when I'm on my side facing north, it bothers me.)
@MsMary-mg3ho
@MsMary-mg3ho Жыл бұрын
@@CaffeinatedTigress Wow, that is really impressive! I guess my sense of direction (or lack of it) doesn't have anything to do with it then. Darn - I thought I had a good excuse! 🙂
@nancyholter5646
@nancyholter5646 Жыл бұрын
@@CaffeinatedTigress Our noses have a concentration of iron. My husband is like that , too.
@quantisedspace7047
@quantisedspace7047 Жыл бұрын
​@@CaffeinatedTigressDon't pigeons and other homing avians have some sort of calcium/magnesium substance above their beaks for this purpose ?
@michellem3050
@michellem3050 Жыл бұрын
When I did landscape design I worked with someone who did amazing planting design - her combinations were great and appropriate for the spaces. I asked her one day, and she said she closes her eyes and imagines the space, the way the wind blows and the lighting, and tries out how different plants look and respond in that space. I was blown away. I have some minds eye but not like that! I can imagine about 3 or 4 plants together before I can't hold it all, and can't put the combo into the space being designed in my minds eye. Sigh. I'm slower and not as good at it.
@ruddiestmanx5116
@ruddiestmanx5116 Жыл бұрын
I can’t imagine anything. It’s just fuzzy black when I close my eyes. But I have very vivid dreams when I’m asleep. I can even lucid dream. But I can’t picture anything in my head. So to think how I want something to look I move it around. And I usually take notes or pictures to help me visualize stuff.
@marzipanmouse
@marzipanmouse Жыл бұрын
Vajrayana practitioners (they do a LOT of visualization) seem to think that you can get better with practice. Their visualizations are quite complex.
@JohnCena-le1jj
@JohnCena-le1jj Жыл бұрын
So what is a "normal" mind's eye? Being able to see a vivid, lifelike image of an object in the mind? Or just a vague representation of that object? Because I can only see vague representations.
@emilysmith2965
@emilysmith2965 Жыл бұрын
The wild thing is, we don’t really know! I mean, we seem to expect vivid descriptions from writing and massive visual effects in our movies… does that mean we’re great at reliving all that detail later? Or do we crave it from creative media because we don’t make so much of it ourselves?
@KenFullman
@KenFullman Жыл бұрын
@@emilysmith2965 I can definitely create scenes in vivid detail. I wouldn't have a clue how to recreate them using real life. If the scene I'm creating is complex I won't even be able to see using my real eyes at that time because my visual input is totally replaced with the images I'm creating. So if I was imagining a scene where a house is collapsing into a stream of molten larva, you could walk up to me and slap a custard pie in my face and I wouldn't see it coming. Whatever I'm "picturing" is literally what I'm seeing. So I'll be oblivious to anything my eyes can see at that time. I'm pretty sure that, anyone watching my eyes at that time, would notice that they're not focusing on anything in particular. If I see a glazed look in someone's eyes, I'll naturally assume that they're "picturing" something in their mind.
@jellojackalopes
@jellojackalopes 4 жыл бұрын
I'd always been really confused by those meditation exercises where they tell you to imagine yourself sitting beside a river or something. I just can't picture it at all. But this difficulty in imagining things did help me become a great descriptive writer. I don't imagine things. Instead, I "see" things as words. Descriptors. I memorize things not by how they look, but by mentally jotting down words that describe them. It's kinda weird to explain. Can't draw to save my life though.
@VerbenaHA
@VerbenaHA 4 жыл бұрын
That's very cool! I'm glad you found that skill :)
@BadgerPride89
@BadgerPride89 4 жыл бұрын
yeah, i call it my ''daredevil'' sight, like it's an echolocation hitting something that i can briefly get an idea of.
@ochenc1071
@ochenc1071 4 жыл бұрын
My grandma tried to get us to do one of those once and I just pretended that I could see.
@MsMarmima
@MsMarmima 4 жыл бұрын
I've never been able to get into guided méditations... Now I know why lol
@rebeccafreeman9883
@rebeccafreeman9883 4 жыл бұрын
Theyre super hard, there's one guy that I like that tells you its ok if you dont see anything or if its not clear and encourages the meditator to focus on what they may or may not be able to see (emotions, feelings, colors and etc).
@delaneyanderson389
@delaneyanderson389 4 жыл бұрын
I remember my freshman year of hs my drama teacher told everyone to imagine a green sweatshirt. Then asked everyone who saw a green sweatshirt in their mind to put up their hands. When I was the only one in the class that didn't out my hand up she told me I was just joking around and that everyone envisions things in the brain
@MisterWayneTV
@MisterWayneTV 4 жыл бұрын
that's tough..
@g.m.2427
@g.m.2427 4 жыл бұрын
Ah, the wonderful world of insensitive teachers thinking they know it all :/
@IluvDelutaya
@IluvDelutaya 4 жыл бұрын
@@g.m.2427 Especially a failed actor.
@eliannam.5700
@eliannam.5700 4 жыл бұрын
i'm curious tho. why would they ask people to raise hands if they thought it wasn't possible not to see it?
@delaneyanderson389
@delaneyanderson389 4 жыл бұрын
@@eliannam.5700 I'm not sure. It was so long ago I don't remember the context. I only remember then saying that there was no way I didn't see a green sweater in my mind
@valduraskaboom6410
@valduraskaboom6410 Жыл бұрын
I watched a video the other day about inner speech, I can visualize anything even going from the micro to macro scales of an object all while having an inner monologue about what I am looking at in my mind. This is constant with me, 100% of the day, I really couldn't image how folks go through life without both. I would never have thought that being able to visualize and discuss thoughts within your mind is only available to some. I just always imagined that's how people and the majority of animals think.
@spiller194
@spiller194 3 жыл бұрын
Wow... I've always known that some people have vivid visual imaginations, but I never even considered that I was odd for *not* having one
@Dispatern
@Dispatern Жыл бұрын
Same!
@TheEVEInspiration
@TheEVEInspiration Жыл бұрын
Same and I think it also explains why most people are not exactly "sharp". Instead of conceptualizing and working with that directly, they tend to work with internal visualizations instead.
@Dispatern
@Dispatern Жыл бұрын
@@TheEVEInspiration I also don't get distracted by any imaginations which is why I can work or study for hours on end.
@Croyles
@Croyles Жыл бұрын
​@@TheEVEInspiration your claim is that NOT being able to visualise stuff makes you smarter? Sure.
@brianestepa2376
@brianestepa2376 Жыл бұрын
@Jason 🤓🤓🤓
@TheErbz69
@TheErbz69 Жыл бұрын
This has explained so many things I’ve struggled with my entire life. Things people would always say that “I’m not trying hard enough” or “I’m not listening” even though I am racking my brain trying to find any compensative way to attempt to visualize what I imagine people are able to see but I never really knew it was actually a difference. I just thought I was an idiot.
@alphamineron
@alphamineron Жыл бұрын
Well this just means you’re biologically designed to be an “idiot”; but of course one shouldn’t judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree.
@ShardulIyer
@ShardulIyer 4 жыл бұрын
If anyone is interested, AmyRightMeow has aphantasia and talks about it on her KZbin. She's an animator and it's really interesting to see how she creates artwork.
@mihan2d
@mihan2d 4 жыл бұрын
Wow, being an animator with aphantasia sounds like drifting a car which doesn't have a steering wheel LOL.
@UnusualPete
@UnusualPete 4 жыл бұрын
Mah-Dry-Bread also has it. He's a gamer.
@janellecappel5650
@janellecappel5650 4 жыл бұрын
This blows my mind... My friend who first told me he had aphantasia told me of an author who has it too.... I see everything through my minds eye so this is very intriguing to me.
@isabarker9896
@isabarker9896 3 жыл бұрын
oh my goodness, yes! her video on aphantasia was what made me realize i had it lolol
@PixPunxel
@PixPunxel 3 жыл бұрын
How? I first time hear about it now. I am also Artist and draw things from my mind for living. But I can not "see" apple in my mind vividly right now
@JackdeDuCoeur
@JackdeDuCoeur Жыл бұрын
It seems we have (or maybe don't have) other imaginative capacities, involving taste of flavors, hearing of sounds, feeling of touches, for examples, and largely we don't realize that others are having imagination experiences we don't or can't. This is the first foray into how our own sense of reality differs and why some people are better at some things than others. Good vid.
@maycarmel8416
@maycarmel8416 2 жыл бұрын
After I found out about aphantasia, I realized I would be a zero or one on the spectrum. I started asking my parents about how they visualized things, and my mom was dumfounded at how I couldn't conjure up an image well at all, but how I could draw and sculpt so well. It's like I know what I want to draw looks like, and I know what elements of what thing will fit together how to conjure my image, but I rely heavily on reference photos. I also notice, when I think, I don't use images at all, but I don't quite use words either, it's just that, a thought. A feeling. A collection of things I subconsciously now.
@SharkyLunasaurus
@SharkyLunasaurus Жыл бұрын
I'm exactly the same way. And I noticed that I stopped having fun playing pretend as a kid way before other people the same age as me. My friends and siblings couldn't understand why I didn't want to play anymore.
@papertowels9162
@papertowels9162 Жыл бұрын
I also stopped pretending very early and never had any imaginary adventures or imaginary friends when I was little. An imaginary friend is a very foreign thing for me because I can't grasp the thought of conjuring up an image of a being that which I can talk to myself with. It's the same thing with how I never really grasped drawing or art in general, I can't imagine a thing that I want to draw. I have to describe it to myself and draw it out with a HEAVY amount of trial and error before I am satisfied with how something looks. But the weirdest part is that I do have dreams that I can remember and describe at times because they are visually and audially in my head. Though if I become too self-aware of my dream, it's instantly gone and I wake up.
@emilysmith2965
@emilysmith2965 Жыл бұрын
One thing I’ve been really advocating for ever since I learned about aphantasia is MORE REFERENCE IMAGES in creative classes, K-12 and beyond. If we teach visual art using lots of reference, it would be helpful to teach creative writing or even music composition with more shared information given to the students. Not only would it be an excellent accommodation for those with aphantasia, but it would show students that you can have the same starting point and end up somewhere different. :)
@MrJpilcher
@MrJpilcher Жыл бұрын
Me to if i close my eyes I just get black buy if I know what something looks like I can draw it. Or if I want to take a photo I know how I want it to look before taking it but I can't see it in my head I can't explain how its not words I get nothing in my mind I just know
@SharkyLunasaurus
@SharkyLunasaurus Жыл бұрын
@@MrJpilcher yes exactly!
@lordfrostdraken
@lordfrostdraken Жыл бұрын
I remember when I learned that people could actually ‘see’ stuff without seeing it. I was shocked and in disbelief. I dont dream, I dont picture things, I never have. This is probably why I have always been such a fan of books, I loved the words and the stories they told, but I never saw any images or imagined the story in my head. Nowdays I am a writer and have been told that I give very vivid descriptions for things. I guess its because I have always been describing things in my head and have gotten quite good at it. This is quite informative. Though I knew a lot of this already I didnt know the emotional part.
@graxxor
@graxxor Жыл бұрын
if I’m not mistaken, every sentient being dreams and it’s one of the phenomena that connect all the higher members of the Animalia Kingdom together.
@lordfrostdraken
@lordfrostdraken Жыл бұрын
@@graxxor Im sure my brain has all kinds of activity while I sleep. But dreams? No, I don’t dream mate. I think I would know if my mind was creating fantastical or horrific worlds of fantasy while I slept. I am an expert on myself after all
@t_c5266
@t_c5266 Жыл бұрын
​@@graxxorhe just wants to feel special. Most people who "don't dream" just forget their dreams.
@Aneenvw
@Aneenvw Жыл бұрын
I actually dream in black. I don’t see anything but I know what’s going on.
@kwilde1131
@kwilde1131 Жыл бұрын
I was amazed when I found out that the term minds eye was not just a thing people said. I literally can not see pictures in my head and have to use words, only in my head, to describe them to myself. I also love reading an am always amazed at authors that an describe things succinctly with words.
@RubyRocket26
@RubyRocket26 3 жыл бұрын
I just found out about Aphantasia a few days ago and I definitely have it and have my whole life. I clearly remember when I was competing in gymnastics as a kid, my coaches would have me visualize my routines and I always thought they just meant to think about each skill in order. I am just floored that people can actually see pictures in their minds!! I actually have a very good long term memory including minute details but it’s more like my brain creates a log of that experience in a detailed list that I can bring back up. But my short term memory is not that great, I loose things easily because I can only focus on so much at a time.
@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286
@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286 Жыл бұрын
Interesting, maybe you have a stronger verbal memory because your brain isn't using resources on visual memory?
@TheEVEInspiration
@TheEVEInspiration Жыл бұрын
@@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286 I don't think verbal memory is actually the thing at work, its more general for me, more abstract and I think in concepts much of the time. Many processes I treat analogous to how one would treat heat/pressure. Those are emerging properties and their behaviors are quite natural to us, making predictions about them and similar processes easy to make. I always wondered why others cannot see what is so obvious to me, I do not even have to spend time thinking about it (actions & consequences of software design choices). Describing "why" choices to others is much harder than making the choices. Simply because they cannot grasp the concepts before they become realizations (in mind or otherwise). Even then, with all the irrefutable facts on the table, they cling for dear life to their own initial foundationless position that has been proven to not work. Like my way, I think there are many ways people experience the world and think. Which in a way is good, it gives us aptitudes for different things and specialization does have a lot of societal benefits. But it does make it hard to work with peers in the same job that are missing the right machinery so to speak.
@RRRusan
@RRRusan Жыл бұрын
As someone who sees just darkness when trying to imagine an apple, and has been that way his whole life, I felt this too much
@Shirayuuki1
@Shirayuuki1 4 жыл бұрын
ive always been fascinated by how different we all perceive reality. how none of us will never truly know whats going on in another person's mind and why they think the way they do.
@scribsandskets1179
@scribsandskets1179 3 жыл бұрын
As someone who writes fiction, this is very interesting to me. I have a very 'visual' writing style because my internal vision has always been strong. It's worth keeping this in mind (no pun intended), because I want everyone to have a good experience while reading.
@Butterfly1025A
@Butterfly1025A 3 жыл бұрын
Oh, definitely! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been reading a book and just entirely skipped past character descriptions and setting descriptions. It never made sense to me why authors told me the exact details of an outfit; I can’t remember all those sentences! I found out in a creative writing class that detailed descriptions are intended to evoke imagery, but since I only picture vague, muted blurs of color, it doesn’t work for me. Your best bet is to describe the emotion that the imagery provokes. If you’re describing the ocean at night, tell me about how it stretches into an infinite, unknowable horizon, waves rising up and crashing down endlessly, a cycle of creation that goes on forever. Or tell me about the colors: a dark wash of barely-blue grey and lightless black, lit only by the pale silver glow of a full moon. If you’re describing a character, it’s much better to tell me about their behavior: stance sure on a swaying deck, back straight and head held confidently high, a thin smile stretched across too-tight lips as they coldly meet their stowaway’s nervous gaze. Sure, also talk about their fancy hat and salt-stained coat and close-shorn hair, but unless the details you give me establish a backstory (gold buttons gleaming proudly on a lovingly mended vest, a scar carved deep across their forearm) then I’m unfortunately just going to get bored. Bits of potential backstory or lore keep my interest because clearly the author is trying to tell me something about this character’s motives or this location’s relevance! But if I’m given two never-ending paragraphs about every detail of a busy city street, I will just skip past it, even if there are important details hidden in all the wordpainting. Because it does very little for me emotionally, it’s a bit of a slog to read through. If the appearance and the mood the setting or character evokes is that important, please just include an illustration! Those I can happily stare at for ages on end. I know you didn’t ask for a rambling reply, but I figured I’d throw my two cents in anyway. Have a nice day!
@camerynr8344
@camerynr8344 2 жыл бұрын
i have aphantasia and i am obsessed with books. the harry potter series has always been my favorite specifically because of the way JK describes how harry sees things in his head. it was actually how i found out i had aphantasia. i think that visual writing styles are some of the best. it actually helps people like me piece together how something really might look in our own way. good luck with your writing! hope you are well💚
@tinamitchell7496
@tinamitchell7496 2 жыл бұрын
That's really interesting. My husband and I only discovered he had aphantasia this past week so we've been discussion it almost constantly since! He has only read one fiction novel in his entire life as he couldn't 'see' the point of it. Just reading words. We've been stuck as to why this one single book (Pillars of the Earth 25yrs ago) captured him in the way no other book had ever done before or since. Can you please (if you happen to see this comment) explain 'visual' writing and why you think it might aid those with aphantasia to enjoy reading fiction? Cheers
@1337Jogi
@1337Jogi 2 жыл бұрын
As someone with strong aphantasia (if I concentrate hard, and only if, I can barely conjour up vague shapes - grey on black) I can tell you that books that tend to describe surroundings and scenes visually get extremely boring. I love reading SciFi and Fantasy but books like LOTR as much as I love it was a bit of a chore. You read the first 100 pages Tolkien describing the Shire but since I cannot see anything it gives me nothing. So I nowadays skip over these sections completely. Still love LOTR.
@d.w.stratton4078
@d.w.stratton4078 3 жыл бұрын
I've never had a visual imagination. Sounds like it would be fun to be able to literally see stuff in my mind. Would make the death of loved ones ever so slightly less awful because I could see them again somewhat.
@RafireRocksNRules
@RafireRocksNRules 3 жыл бұрын
It's about interpretation. In another video about this subject they say that people with aphantasia suffer less the loss of a loved one, precisely because they don't have a vivid memory of them, so they can move on easily. There are no images to hurt them as the common people.
@asdfsadfasdf2419
@asdfsadfasdf2419 3 жыл бұрын
some people also theorize that traumas causes you to lose it, maybe you could lose it during an event without realizing
@jonathanvandagriff7515
@jonathanvandagriff7515 3 жыл бұрын
What are memories like then? When I have memories of loved ones I remember them as they happened. As they looked, sounded, smelled, as if it happened again before me, in my mind. Is it not common to be able to do this?
@d.w.stratton4078
@d.w.stratton4078 2 жыл бұрын
@@asdfsadfasdf2419 I was hurt a lot as a kid by boys 3-4 years older than me. Lots of beatings and such. I was knocked out a couple times so could be that maybe.
@d.w.stratton4078
@d.w.stratton4078 2 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanvandagriff7515 I remember facts, figures, places, relative positions of things. But I also have ADHD so sometimes my recall of words and details of complex emotional things is bad
@shulixnora3792
@shulixnora3792 Жыл бұрын
I live so much in my head that I can’t imagine not having a minds’ eye. Simple example-everyday I wake up and imagine what I’m going to wear and how I’ll look going to work. Sometimes I also make stories in my head by visualising characters, locations, scenes. If I want to chill out I can even replay my favourite movie scenes. So finding out other people can’t do this is mind boggling.
@FACTBOT_5000
@FACTBOT_5000 Жыл бұрын
Same.
@SquirrelASMR
@SquirrelASMR 4 жыл бұрын
One of my new friends has this, but she makes beautiful art and still memorizes visual images, which double confused me and shows how smart the brain is to adapt in other ways.
@spring7643
@spring7643 4 жыл бұрын
It's the motor memory and she might use references 👍
@syber-space
@syber-space 3 жыл бұрын
Yup! I do 3D work and drafting with it. I like to think of it as imagining vs recognizing. Instead of imagining what I will create, I algorithmically generate it. I can see when something is "wrong" and fix it, despite not imagining the corrected version. The paper becomes the imagination in a sense.
@SquirrelASMR
@SquirrelASMR 3 жыл бұрын
@@syber-space that's really cool!
@lindyashford7744
@lindyashford7744 3 жыл бұрын
@@syber-space exactly. Recognising is the right word....
@rebeccacummings6697
@rebeccacummings6697 3 жыл бұрын
Memory and imagination are different lmao
@HoloFizz
@HoloFizz 4 жыл бұрын
If I lost the ability to use my mind's eye it would feel like someone chopped off my legs. As someone who's always daydreaming and drawing, it's just too important to me.
@Top_Weeb
@Top_Weeb 4 жыл бұрын
It's so integral to my day to day life I can't imagine what it's like without it.
@aperson7899
@aperson7899 4 жыл бұрын
I can daydream without pictures just fine It's not like we lose our imagination we just don't picture pictures For example for me my daydreams consist basically entirely of stories
@pl8827
@pl8827 4 жыл бұрын
I still have a hard time believing this isn't just a miscommunication. Like I can't just see something in my visual field if I Imagine it, but I can render 3d objects in my head, and "see them" in my mind's eye; I just find it hard to believe there are people that can't. Can people with Aphantasia remember a 3d object as something akin to a rendered image image at all, how does that even work with memory?
@naturalnashuan
@naturalnashuan 4 жыл бұрын
@@pl8827 I think I have it, acquired 23 years ago. It never worked well for me anyhow. I don't recognize faces and can't picture specific people accurately. Each time I see someone again they don't look like what I thought they did. , I use people's voices more to recognize them. I use the "verbal scaffolding" that was mentioned to put images into my memory, like the way you would describe what you see to someone else. I add placement info , like "to Right"; 10 feet away. Otherwise what I see is gone from my mind as soon as I stop looking at it. I usually don't remember seeing things at all. I CAN remember words I see in print, but no numbers. To answer your question, no I don't really picture things in 3D. I totally fail neuropsych visual, spatial, and sequencing testing. My imagination isn't affected. I imagine in concepts and mixed senses and emotion and logic. I've talked with people blind from birth but without cognitive visual impairment. They do have the ability to see in their mind's eyes quite well (blindsight). This is all mostly limiting in situations where you meet multiple people and need to recognize them again. Like, when you can't remember what your waitress looked like or what she said her name was, for most people.
@space6707
@space6707 3 жыл бұрын
Day dreaming for me is more remembering conversations, books, ect, but not actually seeing anything it's more just re experienceing the emotions and the story behind it. At the same time I don't see anything it's kind of weird and I don't really know how to describe it
@Bit-while_going
@Bit-while_going 4 жыл бұрын
Of course I have a mind's eye. It's right where it should be in the middle of my forehead.
@Bookluver29
@Bookluver29 Жыл бұрын
I am just learning about this today, and it has thoroughly blown my mind. I have never, to my knowledge, had a mind's eye and learning that it isn't the default setting to just ping back with vague concepts of a graphic description is huge. The whole 'picture an apple' thing keeps coming up and there's no image, but if you ask me what an apple looks like, I can tell you in pretty vivid detail - because an apple is round, red or green, often slightly glossy, has a stem - the details are all linked in a mind file somewhere under 'apple'. In the same way, I enjoy creative writing and the arts, but I don't *see* anything. For writing, or things like TTRPGs I can focus and become aware of an abstract conceptual space but it's liminal, like voidstuff, there's still no visual; it's like an extradimensional awareness of a space I am not in where concepts exist and become solid fact for that moment - for instance if I were told that I find myself in a forest, that space now has trees. I know it has trees. I do not see the trees. I can't tell you the colour, the species, the smell or the feel or the height or the distance, there is just an awareness that the space I am thinking of has trees. It is legitimately hard to think of how it must be to experience life differently. My first instinct is a little jealousy - I mean, what have I been missing out on my whole life? At the same time, I don't know any other way to be.
@Confuzledish
@Confuzledish 4 жыл бұрын
It's weird for me. I have very vivid dreams and daydreams. I can replay memories in my head and somewhat 'see' what's going on. When I read a fictional book, I can 'see' what's going on. But if I'm just going about my day and someone says, "Visualize an apple" all I see is blackness. It's like a muscle that I need to flex.
@BleuSquid
@BleuSquid 4 жыл бұрын
I wish I could "see" when I read a book. I hate stories with a lot of visual description because it's all just blah blah blah and I end up glossing over it. Much to my detriment back in high school. I wish I knew about this back then!
@practicepositiveprogress5396
@practicepositiveprogress5396 4 жыл бұрын
@@BleuSquid I used to just think people who told me "it's like watching a movie in your mind!" were lying. I enjoy reading but I'm not watching any kind of movie in my mind! I see nothing!
@thesuccessfulone
@thesuccessfulone 4 жыл бұрын
Involuntary visualization is probably the issue. You automatically have dreams and such, but when you are told to conjure something, your brain would struggle? Maybe instead of "thinking of red apple" you might need to think of a time you actually ate a red apple.
@Fr00stee
@Fr00stee 4 жыл бұрын
@@thesuccessfulone it takes effort to imagine something on the spot
@MsMarmima
@MsMarmima 4 жыл бұрын
I don't really day dream or remember my dreams, but well written stories usually invoke a emotional response in me rather than a visual one.
@geana._.
@geana._. 4 жыл бұрын
Didn’t realize that others can actually visualize an apple. I can try to but I honestly can’t “see” it in my mind. I can think about an apple all I want but it won’t make me “see” it
@leomadero562
@leomadero562 4 жыл бұрын
It is all just words, when people say they can "see" things, it is more of a feeling. You likely have the exact same mental picture as anyone else. My dad had this, but i talked to him for a while and he realized that he actually could picture his truck, just that he thought that he was actually supposed to visually see it.
@leomadero562
@leomadero562 4 жыл бұрын
Do you know what the inside of your house looks like? Can you think of going from your room to the bathroom, where the sink and the shower is? Even if you can't literally see it, no one can unless they are on lsd or something
@asdf30111
@asdf30111 4 жыл бұрын
@@leomadero562 No I definetly can see an apple, sure closing my eyes makes it easier to make the apple more detailed and well formed but even with open eyes I can overlay an apple somewhat. If I do it with out trying the apple shows up as a picture of an apple, as if some one printed a picture of a apple on a clear paper and put it really close to my eyes. If I put in more effort I can make the apple 3D, but even then lining it up with a real world table for more then a moment is really really challanging. Most times the apple won't follow the tilt of the table and will quickly faze out.
@Jhakaro
@Jhakaro 4 жыл бұрын
@@asdf30111 No, you're still not SEEING it. I can picture an apple in my mind, I can picture picking it up an biting it and how it changes, I can visualise scenes and fictional movies in my head that I alone make up, every camera shot, every sound effect essentially but I'm still not LITERALLY seeing it. As far as I know, the vast majority don't actually see things. This is the issue. It's hard to describe. I can rotate objects in three dimensional space, picture colour, even changing an apple from green to purple to red, pink and yellow etc. but am I literally seeing it the same way I see with my eyes? No. This is where many people hear "You should be able to see things in your mind" and they think, oh no, I can't do that because they feel they should have to literally see it. It's not the same. It's the same way people "see" memories. No matter how much you think you can see a memory clearly, you really can't. Memories don't exist as an actual image in our brains that gets recorded. They're pieces of compartmentalised emotions and abstract thought, representative of things that happened or that we saw that our brain tries to recreate every time we "remember" that memory which is why depending on when we remember it, we may remember certain parts or forget certain parts. It's never the actual same memory every single time. More a feeling or representation of a moment in our lives than a literal snap image of that time and place. This is what it's like for the majority of people who "see" things in their head. It's not a literal sight but rather an approximation of the thing, a representation built from our visual library over years and from emotion and abstract thought, otherwise if I said, look at that tree over there, now picture that tree in your mind, now overlay it on that paper sheet and trace the tree, you'd be able to trace a perfect image which is practically impossible.
@asdf30111
@asdf30111 4 жыл бұрын
@@Jhakaro am I really getting gaslighted about the way I view things with in my head? Picturing an apple is seeing it, sure thankfully it is different enough were I don't confuse it with it being a real. However that is not true for all people, and even myself if I get a quick glance of a room I sometimes can accidently trick myself into thinking someone is inside that room only to find out on a second glance that figure was fully with in my imagination.
@TheHuntermj
@TheHuntermj 4 жыл бұрын
I can't visualize anything when I close my eyes, I thought this was normal!
@Reisen_Inaba
@Reisen_Inaba 3 жыл бұрын
Just so you know, it's not even necessary for people to close their eyes to visualize - it tends to make it easier to focus on/see clearly, though, as you have no actual visual stimuli to focus on. "Open-eye visualization" isn't extremely fancy, though.
@didyougetanyofthat
@didyougetanyofthat 3 жыл бұрын
When you say that, do you mean a visualization appearing on your closed eyelids or you close your eyes to focus and visualize in your mind?(imagination i suppose)
@Reisen_Inaba
@Reisen_Inaba 3 жыл бұрын
@@didyougetanyofthat It's not really overlayed directly on reality. It's like a double sight, your normal vision and visualized vision existing at the same time. Though it's far easier to focus on just one at a time, you _can_ visualize with your eyes open. Most people prefer to have their eyes closed, though many don't see much difference, because it's not too hard to filter out what your eyes are seeing/not focus on it.
@EZboyrocks
@EZboyrocks 3 жыл бұрын
@es vee wait really? I’m part of the 2-3% :oooo
@thewkovacs316
@thewkovacs316 3 жыл бұрын
@@EZboyrocks i read that it was 1 out of 50...so it's a much higher percentage. and im having a hard time grasping the concept.
@noelchignell1048
@noelchignell1048 Жыл бұрын
I only recently realised I have this condition (after reading about it) and was startled to know I can't visualise objects as actual images but I can easily imagine these things and think about shapes and plan out a structure in my head and how things fit together and it's not really describing them with words either. Also I have vivid dreams which are just like real life with bright colours and feelings which are indistinguishable from my wakeful experience.
@sarahfox5379
@sarahfox5379 Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty much like that too - except putting things together - I have to draw it out to understand it.
@aris8391
@aris8391 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating. If you were to juxtapose these experiences, what components would you say demonstrate indistinguishability
@PaolaLuna-lg2ch
@PaolaLuna-lg2ch 10 ай бұрын
I go through the same thing. I can't imagine something and see it there, but I do have very vivid dreams sometimes, and I have maladaptive daydreaming too LOL, so is weird. I can imagine it but I can't see it.
@anurag.twentysix
@anurag.twentysix 9 ай бұрын
Same
@zackpercellvo7923
@zackpercellvo7923 2 жыл бұрын
I only found out about this a few months ago when talking to my mom and she explained she had a friend who had aphantasia. She explained what it was and I was like: "Wait...you can actually picture things in your mind? The minds eye isn't just a figure of speech?" I'm 46 and have never been able to actually picture images in my mind beyond just kind of remembering what things look like. I didn't realize people could really picture things.
@nancyholter5646
@nancyholter5646 Жыл бұрын
what is the difference between recalling what something looks like and 'seeing it' in your mind? Serious question - I am trying to figure out where I land on this seeing/not seeing scale, and this seems to me to be a key. I don't 'see' an apple when asked to picture one, but I can 'see' where on a page some information was that I read 3 weeks ago, or how many windows are in the living room.
@Lori_g70
@Lori_g70 Жыл бұрын
​@@nancyholter5646I think that's memory
@goteer10
@goteer10 Жыл бұрын
​@@nancyholter5646 When "picturing" something, you're creating an image of your own will. When recalling a visual memory, you're looking for something that you didn't make but perceived at some point. You may also mix by recalling an image and then "adding" to it. Think of the mind's eye as quite literally an eye that sees what's in your mind. There's some overlap, which is why false memories are so easy to accidentally create as well. I'm somewhere in the middle, I have a mind's eye, but it requires me to focus fairly hard, even more so when imagining instead of recalling. This also made it easier to tell when I have inaccurate memories, as they become distorted or "dissolve" while I'm recalling them.
@KenFullman
@KenFullman Жыл бұрын
@@nancyholter5646 Yes we actually SEE what we're asked to "picture". This is why driving while talking on the phone can be so dangerous. I recall when mobile phones first came out, I was talking to my wife (who was in the supermarket) while on my way home. I found myself picturing where she was in the shop and, at that moment, veered off the road. Luckily this was onto a flat grass verge and the sound of my tyres on the dirt was enough to snap me out of it. This was simply because, at the moment I was picturing her walking around that store, I was no longer able to see what was directly in front of me. Obviously the part of my brain that processes images from my eyes, was too busy creating the image of the store layout. If I'm picturing something simple (like an apple) I can still see what's directly in front of me, but if I have to picture something more complicated, I am totally blind to whatever is physically in front of me at that moment. I'm pretty sure that's how it works for most of us.
@COMPUTER.SCIENCE.
@COMPUTER.SCIENCE. Жыл бұрын
​@@nancyholter5646the question is when you close your eyes, can you still see the image of the apple clearly like u're looking at a picture, or just a description of the apple, that's the different! People who don't experience Aphantasia CAN STILL SEE the IMAGE just like looking at a PICTURE (it's called visualization) If you don't experience it, then you have Aphantasia, simple!
@Dirshaun
@Dirshaun 3 жыл бұрын
So being able to do this, I absolutely look forward to instances where I'm dreaming, but partially awake. It's usually very brief, but it's like having the ability to bend reality. Makes for some interesting experiences. As an artist, another huge advantage to it is I can imagine an item I'm familiar with like a human. I can pose them as I see fit, and visualize it directly into the space I wish to draw. After that I just maintain it as long as I can, and basically trace what I see. It is challenging to maintain the image though. You experience the same kind of fatigue you would from any other mentally demanding task.
@lizard3852
@lizard3852 3 жыл бұрын
So kinda like waking up in the morning from an alarm clock or smth and then going back to sleep? For me thats when i remember my dreams the most, but not quite lucid dreaming like you
@Miners666
@Miners666 3 жыл бұрын
I don’t have aphantasia at all but I can’t draw anything from my imagination, I think that might be two separate abilities.
@no-better-name
@no-better-name Жыл бұрын
my guy is rendering a scene xd and of course, it consumes large amounts of processing resources
@Sproutygorl
@Sproutygorl Жыл бұрын
I didn't realize this was so new to science! when I was a kid one of my friends said she couldn't visualize things but I could ( I was also very interested in optics and perception), so I ended up doing experiments on my classmates about this in when I was in middle school! Wish I knew then that it would have been ground breaking aha
@werefrogofassyria6609
@werefrogofassyria6609 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, you should have tried to publish your results.
@MarkoBotsaris
@MarkoBotsaris Жыл бұрын
I find that my first tendency when doing difficult mathematics of some sort (full disclosure, I’m a physicist) is to translate it into geometry or a geometric analog in my head - basically my minds eye - and turn it around and “look” at it from different angles. A lot of the time this works like a charm. But after working with many brilliant people I also realize in many cases this is limiting. I know many mathematicians that don’t fall back by default to mental geometry and have developed their other frameworks like logic, number theory and probably stuff I can’t even imagine to a very high degree. I don’t know if this is always by choice, or their educational path, or their innate make up, but in such cases I’m sure NOT having a minds eye could lead to developing some powerful alternatives, at least in the abstract realms.
@murdey
@murdey Жыл бұрын
This is similar to what my mind's done with aphantasia. My thoughts/memories are very spatial but have no imagery whatsoever, just a soft black polluted by whatever light is on the other side of my eyelids. I have the ability to understand and recall relative positions within complex spatial reasoning tasks but would have a hard time drawing what they looked like. I could easily draft a coordinate system and plot it though. I've found this 'thread' or 'means' of cognition is super beneficial when studying things like computer graphics and vectors/matrices, but I envy those with a functional 'mind's eye'...
@fake10hourentertainment17
@fake10hourentertainment17 Жыл бұрын
For me it’s when I’m reading. When I read I almost always think of things in a series of facts rather than as images. But I can visualize something if I want to. It’s just not vivid and way more elusive than seeing something in real life, and definitely not through my eyes.
@Sibula
@Sibula 4 жыл бұрын
I can near perfectly recall complete songs and replay them in my head, along with all the instruments and backing vocals and stuff. But if I try to imagine an apple I can maybe get a hazy outline of something red and round-ish and I'm not really sure if I'm seeing it or just thinking I see it. But I can pretty well imagine how it tastes and how biting into it feels and sounds. I'm also completely unable to describe people's facial features. Like, I may remember their hair color or if they have glasses or if they're fat or thin, but I can't tell what their face really looks like. And for something like imagining a room, I kind of remember single items and store them in their place. Like, on that wall there is a cracked grey leather sofa (except more detail if I can remember and more vague). And then when I try to describe or draw it I pull the items one by one and try to recreate them from the "description" I remember of them. And when I try to imagine something like a character from a book, I can sort of see a general "feel" of how they look, but they lack any tangible features. I can sort of imagine what color their clothes are and how they hang on them, but they don't have an outline or face and I can't really see what kind of clothes they are.
@ahhwe-any7434
@ahhwe-any7434 4 жыл бұрын
Im just very emo. I can recall words, behaviors, situations, as long as it means something to me. random details too but then i guess it doesnt even hafta mean anything to me. I just remember random sh. Im prob not even aware that im even processing something & actually storing it too. I recall things from the top of my head, or anything that can trigger it. And ill just randomly remember something i dont even think about. :/ Most ppl dont do that? Id say maybe its more unique that i have dreams, remember them, apparently take mental pics of everything, even read (bc apparently you cant see letters. I know i have. Bc i had some silly dream about watching a bouncy ball bounce off a lyric video that i prob made up myself. I just know i had a feeling i was watching an artists song but never heard of it, ha...) but then i guess some ppl just simply dont even remember things. Im not sure if trauma has rewired my head in some way. I was really really young when things started happening to me. I honestly surprise myself sometimes. Idk where i come up w/ the sh i do. Its like i just pulled it out from the air or something. Anywho, im glad i never developed an disassociative personality disorder thing.
@iprobablyforgotsomething
@iprobablyforgotsomething 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly the same! I can play music in my head like I'm hearing it on the radio, and even manipulate the sound of it (pause the singer but not the background music, speed the singer up or down). But I have no automatic internal monologue (though sometimes well-written characters that feel real give me a mild, faint impression of hearing *their* voice as they speak). And while I dream vividly and clearly with every sense except smell, I can only "imagine" real things I've seen, and they are blurry and with poor limited pixel quality, and I can't process movement in my head (or very well irl) at all. I have wondered sometimes if the lack of the other abilities frees up space and energy to put towards my echoic memory and inwards musical recall / manipulation. And if so, is that the case for others presenting like me?? Or are these factors unrelated coincidences?
@space_ace_cosmo
@space_ace_cosmo 4 жыл бұрын
I'm so happy you've done a video on this! I've got aphantasia and first found out about it a couple of years ago. It was such a weird realisation that the "mind's eye" isn't just a metaphor and other people can actually "see" what they imagine! This video explains exactly what its like for me.
@Fr00stee
@Fr00stee 4 жыл бұрын
for me the image i see is usually really blurry if I try to force it
@space_ace_cosmo
@space_ace_cosmo 4 жыл бұрын
I'll sometimes get a really faint blurry image of something if I don't think about it (like if someone mentions a place I've been I'll get a quick gist of it but it'll disappear immediately) and if I try to hold on to the image or make one it just doesn't work or disappears even faster.
@SharOfConfusion
@SharOfConfusion 4 жыл бұрын
I felt the same way. "Wait. You can actually see things when you close your eyes?" It was surreal finding out people actually could do that lol.
@SrValeriolete
@SrValeriolete 4 жыл бұрын
Do you dream?
@space_ace_cosmo
@space_ace_cosmo 4 жыл бұрын
@@SrValeriolete yes! And I dream in images. I know when I've woken up that I saw images in my mind that are often as realistic as actually seeing something, but I can't "see" the dream again after waking up. Some dreams are less clear but most are as clear as real life. It's odd that my brain can make pictures inside it but just not when I'm trying to make them!
@iceberg4240
@iceberg4240 4 жыл бұрын
This sounds similar to my experience with faces. Like when I think of family members or friends that j haven't seen in the last few hours j can't picture a particular face.
@jahalr6598
@jahalr6598 4 жыл бұрын
Omg Exactly. I also cant remember their faces. And Before I learnt about aphantasia I got really bummed and weirded out about not being able to imagine or remember my family's faces . I have a hard time describing them as well coz I cant bring up a picture in my head and describe them. Friends or acquaintances I havent seen in awhile are a lost cause completely. But with aphantasia I guess the inability to recall their faces can be explained.
@stormfirekitty
@stormfirekitty 4 жыл бұрын
@@ghnjhnx Actually probably not. I couldn't describe the faces of the people I live with if my life depended on it, all I have is a memorized list of distinctive features. That doesn't mean I don't recognize them, or couldn't pick them out of a group, or tell which of several similar looking people was "mine". Because their faces are just like my house, with the same level of visual memory detail and the same level of recognition and distinguishability. Or the software I work with every day, which I could not tell you from memory where a certain button is without moving my mouse hand, because I can't *see* it without actually looking at it, even though I look at it for approximately 30 hours a week.
@Fr00stee
@Fr00stee 4 жыл бұрын
damn i cant really remember either even though i dont have aphantasia it takes a lot of effort to remember
@LucyXuCovers
@LucyXuCovers 4 жыл бұрын
This is prosopagnosia, there's a specific region of the brain that processes faces and if it's underdeveloped, remembering faces is harder.
@anoyint
@anoyint 4 жыл бұрын
@@LucyXuCovers it's the thing that Chuck Close has, right?
@whydoyouneedtoknow8
@whydoyouneedtoknow8 9 ай бұрын
it took me so many years to realize that when people tell you to picture something some people could actually see it- 💀 But what I’m rlly confused abt is how I have aphantasia and yet I have the most vivid dreams and thoughts-
@oklkllk
@oklkllk 7 ай бұрын
Yeah I can dream and see stuff in my dream. But I cannot visualize anything that's being told to me in a conversation, being read or talked about. When someone tells me a story about something they saw , I genuinely don't care. And it's not that I'm rude. I just don't care naturally without trying because I cant picture it and I only hear the words so therefore I focus on the words. And I'm like ay cool man
@stvp68
@stvp68 4 жыл бұрын
Interesting. I always thought “mind’s eye” referred to intuition or something related to spirituality
@anon6187
@anon6187 3 жыл бұрын
It talks about imagery Imagining in this video, More on how Imaginative some people and some are not.
@AntilleanConfederation
@AntilleanConfederation 3 жыл бұрын
Minds eye is indeed spiritual gift. Not everyone is connected to the divine in such a personel level. So those who are , are responsible for getting everyone else closer to God.
@samuelyoung1236
@samuelyoung1236 3 жыл бұрын
Me too. I guess I have limited visual imagination …
@yewtewbstew547
@yewtewbstew547 3 жыл бұрын
@@AntilleanConfederation If you could see what I sometimes use mine for I don't think you'd be saying that haha.
@AntilleanConfederation
@AntilleanConfederation 3 жыл бұрын
@@yewtewbstew547 spiritual doesn’t just mean God. The bad ones can manipulate you also. If you let them in.
@AzazelGrimshadow
@AzazelGrimshadow 4 жыл бұрын
As an Artist, I can't imagine not being able to see things in my mind. How do those without it create any kind of art? Brains are weird.
@phillipnunya6793
@phillipnunya6793 4 жыл бұрын
Probably by reacting and iterating on what they create rather than planning it first.
@spring7643
@spring7643 4 жыл бұрын
Edit: so I did some reading and apparently people with aphantasia have ideas they want to see, so drawing is a way to turn our thoughts into images. This is why many people with aphantasia are drawn to art. It's true for me. Honestly I don't know how but I want to find out. People said my art is really good and I have aphantasia. Not bragging here, this is just for informational purposes, but many people including my family would not believe me when I told them I have aphantasia. Some of them still don't believe me. My art sucked for the longest time, then when I healed from my eating disorder it suddenly improved a lot. Probably because my hand wasn't shakey anymore? My art looks better when I use a reference but I can still draw well without a reference.
@1pcfred
@1pcfred 4 жыл бұрын
We look at what we are creating. There's definitely artists out there that should do that.
@cjshenesky4912
@cjshenesky4912 4 жыл бұрын
For me a person with aphantasia, i often have to reference and combine images before i draw something. And proportions dont come naturally, I need a ruler for that.
@leomadero562
@leomadero562 4 жыл бұрын
Im 100 percent aphantasia is just misunderstandings of words and stuff, a lot of people think that "normal" people literally hallucinate things in front of them but its not like that at all. Im not trying to accuse anyone of lying or anything, just trying to discuss.
@lazymass
@lazymass 4 жыл бұрын
I have aphantasia. I would love to know how it looks to be able to visualize things on demand. I can make logical constructs in my mind, but I cant see anything. Even memories are pretty much knowledge based, I remeber how I was feeling or what color had something or so, but I cant see the memory.
@CaptNSquared
@CaptNSquared 4 жыл бұрын
As a kid I would tech myself how to lucid dream every now and then when I wanted to see something that didn't exsist. Like the Tardis or Enterprise or whatever. Thankfully it never really took more then a week to become lucid for a few seconds and change the dream to whatever setting I wanted before losing it (which was usually enough to be satisfied). It was only latter in life I learned this was a horrifically complex and ludicrous way to do something most can do on demand and better
@shindousan
@shindousan 4 жыл бұрын
It's a bit like a dream, but voluntary, and separate from your actual senses, though it can be sort of "overlayed" (but not like a hallucination).
@gamerfreak007
@gamerfreak007 4 жыл бұрын
I can't speak for others, but for me, 'how it looks' is pretty much how it would look if I could actually see the object, provided that either I am sufficiently familiar with the object or provided a detailed enough description. My mental image becomes less distinct the further I get from one of those ideals until, if I have never seen the object and am provided only a rudimentary description, it may just be a fuzzy blob.
@Crustee0
@Crustee0 4 жыл бұрын
For me, its like remembering a visual experience, but altering it. For example, when trying to imagine an apple, i would remember the experience i had when choosing apples on supermarket, or when eating it, then "crop" the apples out. Usually i can manipulate the "image" i see, but the image feel more vague if i manipulate it too much. I think videos with edited animations are quite close to what i experience, just that some details are left out, and i cant exactly remember some parts, usually i just fill the information in subconsciously, in case of the apple, i dont actually remember any specific apple skin patterns, it just got filled in by my brain.
@lazymass
@lazymass 4 жыл бұрын
for me, this sounds so trippy :)) The only time I ever experienced any visuals was when i took lsd once. But that was more random and uncontrolable, beeing able to control those visuals sounds great :) Interesting is, that I am pretty good in drawing, but I have to build the image straight on the paper, I cant imagine how it will look when I will draw it. So in most cases the actual drawing is much different from what I thought it will look like. I have also pretty good imagination for creating stories, but again only as a information and logical constructs, I can't actually picture what I am telling in my mind. Next thing I noticed on myself is that I am very bad at excepting stories that would not make any sense in reality, like fairytales and so on. I am too concentrated on informations and if they all make sense, it got better after the said lsd trip, but I am still extremely logical inside.
@wolfthorn1
@wolfthorn1 Жыл бұрын
What a burden it would be to close your eyes and always be able to see a clear picture of something. What a curse of having to see vividly the face of the ex who cheated on you. Or vividly being able to see that time you saw your dog get run over. It must make for a very cluttered and overly emotional brain.
@jonibueno2721
@jonibueno2721 9 ай бұрын
I can't possibly imagine having a brain without imagery. It's incredibly entertaining!@@Shayron1989
@spiffo5349
@spiffo5349 9 ай бұрын
That's not necessarily how it works. Maybe as a young kid I would have overactive visualizations sometimes (such as when trying to sleep), but as an adult it's a non-issue. In the same way that just because I have arms doesn't mean I have any trouble keeping them from flailing about uncontrollably.
@jacklukasewycz1316
@jacklukasewycz1316 8 ай бұрын
I agree 100%. I have aphantasia, which I only just realized this year. I've always secretly felt bad that I could get over my exs so quickly and easily, I thought it meant I was heartless or didn't love them. Now I suspect it's because I don't (and can't) relive events or fixate on a face that isn't in front of me. I'm literally the embodiment of "out of sight, out of mind". It's also protected me from PTSD and flashbacks because I can't relive the day my ex strangled me. I used to wonder why that didn't haunt me, now I'm so thankful that it can't
@laurayt3
@laurayt3 7 ай бұрын
I feel that most people are very emotional regardless, but I’m not very emotional and I don’t have aphantasia. It’s actually very useful when I need to imagine objects, rotate them and create things that would take long to draw. It’s also nice to “see time”, when I imagine the year as a huge calendar, I don’t know how to explain 😂. But honestly, I think trauma is linked to emotion, regardless of images in our minds. Sometimes a certain smell/sound could trigger people way more than an image.
@laurayt3
@laurayt3 7 ай бұрын
@@jacklukasewycz1316I also have this “out of sight, out of mind” thing, but I don’t have aphantasia. I can get over things quickly too.
@318hardy
@318hardy 4 жыл бұрын
It’s nice that this is getting more recognition and to find out I’m not the only one who can’t visualize things. Well, I can sometimes see very faded or distorted images for either a few milliseconds or sometimes even 3 seconds at the most. It take a lot of effort so that’s not an everyday occurrence for me
@waltwhitmansbeard
@waltwhitmansbeard 4 жыл бұрын
i discovered my aphantasia back in april and boy has that changed my view of basically everything lol. i see full black when i close my eyes and finding out that almost everyone else in my life has incredibly vivid internal worlds is...super not fun!! it has made me curious, though, as to whether ppl with aphantasia experience trauma in the same way as ppl without. i know ppl who have had a hard time processing traumatic experiences, even ones from decades ago, because the images from those experiences stick with them. scary/traumatic stuff doesn't tend to bother me that much because as soon as it's over, i don't see it in my head anymore.
@sageghisays7127
@sageghisays7127 4 жыл бұрын
I’m fairly certain most people “see black” when they close their eyes. It’s not as if most people have vivid imaginations, springing visual imagery in their minds as they shut their eyelids. Don’t use this discovery to lose gratitude for life.
@ahhwe-any7434
@ahhwe-any7434 4 жыл бұрын
Idk if you close your eyes and rub your palms into them, you can see the scales of a snake. At least i used to, when i was younger. Im not gonna test it out now tho bc ive been eating spices. But thats prob more of a physical thing.
@athumbi
@athumbi 4 жыл бұрын
Don't be envious. I spent all my energy planning how my game will look and work in my head. When the time comes to actually make something other people can see, I feel really lazy because I'm convinced that I already made it all. I burn all my motivation in a one-off like L33t. EDIT: what I'm trying to say is that we've got both good points and bad points. If I describe a visual you won't get it, but when there are instructions it will be easier for you to execute them without getting distracted.
@biggie737
@biggie737 4 жыл бұрын
I say that I could spend an hour with my son but be unable to visualize his face as soon as I leave the room. However my dreams are very vivid. I can even experience places that I've known with great detail. In addition to this, I cannot hear songs in my minds speaker, I can whistle tunes easily and accurately. Thinking of even my favourite foods doesn't let me experience their taste. Though when I eat something I can identify the components of that flavour ie. the spices and herbs that contribute to it's overall taste. I can even tell whether it tastes different from the last time that I ate it. It wasn't until I was in my 50's that I began to suspect that other people could have a mind's eye picture. I was afraid to ask someone if in fact they had the capability to see images in their mind; I was afraid that they would think e even stranger than I actually am!
@rjdrakon2492
@rjdrakon2492 4 жыл бұрын
You are not alone
@spring7643
@spring7643 4 жыл бұрын
You sound a lot like me!
@aizad330
@aizad330 3 жыл бұрын
As someone with Mind's Eye i would say yes we could see the things that not in reality. But what we think? You probably shouldn't know.
@tootat132
@tootat132 3 жыл бұрын
Mine is similar in that I usually cannot visualize something unless I've really spaced out in a daydream or I am sleeping. Interestingly enough though, when I take shrooms I can somewhat visualize things while awake.
@goteer10
@goteer10 Жыл бұрын
I have a "muddled" mind's eye. I can picture things, but it's hard to keep it together and I have to focus a lot on it. This alerted me to the fact some people are better and some are worse at "picturing things", especially my mother who's always been waay worse specifically at spatial imagination (Picturing how much space an imaginary object would take up). Some friends can just conjure up complete scenarios without as much as a thought, while I spend a good while slowly building up everything. And then when I read about Aphantasia I thought it was weird to just... not know that people use their heads differently.
@Icantchangemyhandlehelp
@Icantchangemyhandlehelp Жыл бұрын
Spatial imagination exists? Thatd be helpful.. I mean, I think I have it to an extent, but I sort of have to measure it with my real senses and visualize really hard.
@HeadsFullOfEyeballs
@HeadsFullOfEyeballs 4 жыл бұрын
I remember people telling me they'd study by going over an important textbook page again and again until they could "see it with their eyes closed", and they'd recall that mental image during the exam. They'd actually _extract information_ from an image somehow stored in their minds! That's literally unimaginable to me. My mental "images" only contain exactly what I consciously put there.
@Fr00stee
@Fr00stee 4 жыл бұрын
i cant do that either even though I dont have aphantasia
@bobbobber4810
@bobbobber4810 4 жыл бұрын
@@Fr00stee My problem with that is that my though are too chaotic. If I try to see something, I will do it but it didn't generally take long before it turn into something else, like my though. So I can use that... but only sometime.
@LastUnicorn
@LastUnicorn 4 жыл бұрын
I only had to write it out by hand and then I could remember it no problem because I could "see it." Same as how you described.
@KiltedSatyr
@KiltedSatyr 4 жыл бұрын
I've started describing the way I "visualize" things as being like proprioception. I am aware of an object, I can't see it (though I can feel it sometimes), but I can be aware of its dimensions, weight, texture, taste maybe, but if I ever see it in my mind at all, it is like someone flicked the lights on for a moment and the image is gone again.
@noname6756
@noname6756 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah man, I am one of those, I usually do something like photographing the pages and use it, not exactly like photographic memory but something similar
@derekstein6193
@derekstein6193 3 жыл бұрын
I saw a video about aphantasia by a youtuber a couple years back. It was a real surprise that aphantasia was a thing. As a DM for my local D&D group, I realize that this condition actually has some notable implications. For instance, a possible reason why a player isn't as into the game when playing TTRPGs using primarily Theatre of the Mind, as opposed to more physical representations (i.e., miniatures, pictures, and battlemaps), could be due to that player having aphantasia. On a related note, this could also help explain it when some people deride others for imagination intensive hobbies/activities. They might see it as people being phony (lying about this "seeing stuff in your head" thing) or just that they don't realize that they are the only ones present that can't connect with the activity and thereby get no enjoyment from it.
@nickjunes
@nickjunes Жыл бұрын
Very good observations.
@TRDiscordian
@TRDiscordian Жыл бұрын
I love tabletop but yeah, require at least markers for where things are. At least I’m the DM and have control over that.
@mazieg.messer8840
@mazieg.messer8840 4 жыл бұрын
I have and have always had aphantasia. It's why I decided to learn to draw so I could visualize the ideas I had. My aphantasia doesn't apply when I'm dreaming though, only when I'm awake.
@nxo2468
@nxo2468 3 жыл бұрын
Same thats what I find extremley weird.
@olginlest3498
@olginlest3498 3 жыл бұрын
Aphantasia is when you don't see things
@StephenC555
@StephenC555 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I can't imagine an image when awake. But my dream is like a movie with color...
@yewtewbstew547
@yewtewbstew547 3 жыл бұрын
What about daydreaming?
@mazieg.messer8840
@mazieg.messer8840 3 жыл бұрын
@@yewtewbstew547 Can't conjure an image while daydreaming. It's all just aspirational inner monologue.
@VGCHANEL
@VGCHANEL 4 жыл бұрын
I can't know whether I have it or not cause idk how to describe what I "see" in my head. I don't literally see something, it's like a vague picture that I... "imagine"? I do literally seen things when I dream, but when I remember it it's that vague picture again. So yeah no idea how to describe it.
@andyh9382
@andyh9382 4 жыл бұрын
That sounds about like how my brain works. Like I can think and understand a red apple. But there isn’t one floating in my mind as I “look at it”.
@practicepositiveprogress5396
@practicepositiveprogress5396 4 жыл бұрын
This! Exactly this! Like, I am “imagining “ the red Apple, but I’m not “SEEING” it in my mind...
@EvelynDayless
@EvelynDayless 4 жыл бұрын
Yea, I'm in the same boat. Like I don't actually see an apple, but I kind of have the thought of the concept of an apple.
@mediabox8280
@mediabox8280 4 жыл бұрын
Its nice to not be alone in this.
@Theocloud
@Theocloud 4 жыл бұрын
Same for me. When I close my eyes I just see black. I can vaguely imagine a red apple, but it's not appearing in the black I see. It's... something else ? Dunno Edit: Yeah that's really hard to describe. Couldn't find the right words Edit 2: So apparently we're mixing phantasia (mind's eye) and prophantasia (projecting an image into physical sight).
@ShavinMcCrotch
@ShavinMcCrotch Жыл бұрын
I’m glad most aphantasiacs don’t understand what they’re missing. If I lost the ability to create/remember things and see them in my mind, it would be devastating. I can’t even begin to imagine how any of them could be artistic. 😧
@monicap8561
@monicap8561 4 жыл бұрын
This is so weird, I've always done this! I never realized that most people actually visualize stuff until it came up in an English course in college--when I read, I don't imagine how the characters or the settings look but I do imagine how the characters move through space? Everyone was super surprised that I was a reader without actually picturing things as described. I also think this came up on an episode of Dear Hank and John a couple months back, and when I listened to that episode, I did actually picture an apple. It just took a lot of effort and I found the experience... Idk, wasteful? Why put do much work into picturing an apple when the concept is fine? The only art I've ever been able to do well is freehand tracing, which I wonder maybe factors in as well? I can imagine things I'd like to draw, but I'm completely unable to translate that to the page, thought that might be lack of technical skill. Really interesting stuff either way!
@CaptNSquared
@CaptNSquared 4 жыл бұрын
I read a short story in college where people had an implant that ment they couldn't perceive relative attractiveness of any kind. We had to write a short paper from the point of view of someone in that story imagining what it would be like. As someone with aphantasia and face-blindness that was the easiest paper I ever wrote. I already live in this world. And as bonus points the teacher found it supper interesting because they had never had a student with either
@Sibula
@Sibula 4 жыл бұрын
@@adriandatura I can near perfectly recall complete songs and replay them in my head, along with all the instruments and backing vocals and stuff. But if I try to imagine an apple I can maybe get a hazy outline of something red and round-ish and I'm not really sure if I'm seeing it or just thinking I see it. But I can pretty well imagine how it tastes and how biting into it feels and sounds. I'm also completely unable to describe people's facial features. Like, I may remember their hair color or if they have glasses or if they're fat or thin, but I can't tell what their face really looks like. And for something like imagining a room, I kind of remember single items and store them in their place. Like, on that wall there is a cracked grey leather sofa (except more detail if I can remember and more vague). And then when I try to describe or draw it I pull the items one by one and try to recreate them from the "description" I remember of them. And when I try to imagine something like a character from a book, I can sort of see a general "feel" of how they look, but they lack any tangible features. I can sort of imagine what color their clothes are and how they hang on them, but they don't have an outline or face and I can't really see what kind of clothes they are.
@ochenc1071
@ochenc1071 4 жыл бұрын
People literly have gotten mad at me for reading like that.
@monicap8561
@monicap8561 4 жыл бұрын
@@ochenc1071 yeah same!!
@iprobablyforgotsomething
@iprobablyforgotsomething 4 жыл бұрын
@Valtteri Asikainen -- me, too! Re the music / audio-recall and character-thing! I rarely "meet" others who do the same, so very awesome! Also have very hazy images mentally when trying to imagine something, although static images of real rememered things are possible, briefly, unlike inventing images in my head.
@DarkVioletOblivion
@DarkVioletOblivion 4 жыл бұрын
I recently learned aphantasia was a thing. Never realized that people saw actual images in their mind.
@wesleygreenhow8843
@wesleygreenhow8843 4 жыл бұрын
same here
@MsMarmima
@MsMarmima 4 жыл бұрын
This whole time I thought it was some wishy washy metaphor lmao
@sihplak
@sihplak 4 жыл бұрын
Well, you don't "see" the images when you imagine them. If you can imagine something and know what it looks like without having to supplement that with words, then you do not have aphantasia. However, if the only way for you to understand remembered or imagined visual imagery is through words and not the abstracted image, then you have aphantasia, if I understand this all correctly.
@J11_boohoo
@J11_boohoo 4 жыл бұрын
It isn’t always like an image it can also be like being in a space
@phillipnunya6793
@phillipnunya6793 4 жыл бұрын
@Cherry Not for me. Once I spent enough time thinking about it and adding details, I literally saw a detailed apple as if it was being rendered in software with a lot of detail.
@folfielukather8083
@folfielukather8083 4 жыл бұрын
i can watch whole movies in my head, i dont even need to close my eyes
@sirsir9665
@sirsir9665 3 жыл бұрын
Same but it's not perfect. Hard to picture maybe like every detail of a shoe for example of if I'm designing art maybe it can hard to think of all the details. Like if I had to create a shoe Id have an overall design but would have to create it in parts to start picturing the details as I go.
@xxevilellisonxx
@xxevilellisonxx 3 жыл бұрын
@@sirsir9665 Exactly, for me they look like one of those AI generated images based off of an actual photo.
@brendan3321
@brendan3321 3 жыл бұрын
@@sirsir9665 man, i can imagine stitching, laces, buckles, the soles, literally everything, i can make them as elegant as i want, even with open eyes. god thats sad others cant do this.
@alan4sure
@alan4sure 3 жыл бұрын
Those are cartoons😆😆
@LordParticle
@LordParticle 3 жыл бұрын
I can listen to entire albums in my head
@Wurps
@Wurps Жыл бұрын
I thought for the longest time that people with visual memories were the rare ones, even after I discovered the concept of aphantasia I was once again surprised that some have a mind's ear as well and can conjure music or other sounds. I feel like I'm the normal one, people that see and hear things that aren't there sounds odd.
@montalineberger4743
@montalineberger4743 Жыл бұрын
I can " play" whole concertos in my head.
@erikbridle
@erikbridle 4 жыл бұрын
I only discovered that people Actually see things in their head a few years ago after taking with my partner after watching a movie where in you saw a characters fantasy. I was like "I get it, it's a movie, you have to use visual imagery, but no one actually sees things in their head, that's ridiculous." And she stared at me like I had an extra head growing out of my ear. After that I've slowly be realizing how much it has impacted me over the years. But that element about emotion at the end is really interesting and something I hadn't ever considered, but does fit into my experiences.
@skitz042o2
@skitz042o2 4 жыл бұрын
Erik Bridle it’s difficult to understand from either side I think, I can’t imagine not having an inner monologue or mind eye. I just can’t. Like I can’t force my mind to be “quiet”. I imagine because we’ve all grown up with our various thought processes that anything other seems too alien.
@mikedaniel1771
@mikedaniel1771 4 жыл бұрын
For someone with aphantasia, you created a striking mental image with the extra head description :-)
@listerjne
@listerjne 2 жыл бұрын
aaaa as someone with aphantasia i adore this video. the more we learn about aphantasia, the more i kind of realise what im missing out on, and that can be really upsetting. thank you for treating it with respect as usual
@xashluvrr
@xashluvrr 2 жыл бұрын
i know right! i never knew people could really see in their heads and now i'm kind of upset that i'm not able to :/
@veramae4098
@veramae4098 Жыл бұрын
The ability to use text as memory is something I'd love to have. There are payoffs each way.
@listerjne
@listerjne Жыл бұрын
@@veramae4098 very true! ive since found many upsides, but i also just got turned down for a job because i couldnt comprehend measuring the walls of a room 💪 that situation is pretty rare of course but terrible timing
@PERTEKofficial
@PERTEKofficial Жыл бұрын
I couldn’t imagine (quite literally, I must say) having aphantasia. The way I think is not through words, but audiovisual. VERY audiovisual. I _can_ still have internal monologue just fine of course, but I greatly prefer to think through actual scenes and experiences and such. Not only does it help a ton with creativity, but it also helps a lot with decision making as it allows me to effectively simulate different outcomes based on certain parameters in great detail. And often times very accurately. Oh and my favorite part is that when I listen to music, it’s like the sound gets re-routed into my visual imagination, so I can imagine something and the music I’m listening to causes that thing I’m imagining to warp and distort in very drastic ways, more often than not to the point that it’s entirely unrecognizable and abstract. I don’t know how to describe this in a way that makes sense, but it is incredibly trippy, and plays a huge role in why I listen to the music I listen to. Honestly couldn’t imagine listening to music and not “seeing” it, lol. It’s like having both an extremely strong imagination and having audiovisual synesthesia. Idk if I just lucked out when it comes to having a brain that makes awesome experiences without needing drugs or something. Won’t lie though, psychedelics do make the experience a lot more interesting
@EtropolisGhost
@EtropolisGhost Жыл бұрын
When I listen to music, it also gets somewhat "re-routed into my visual imagination." Except I'm fairly close to having aphantasia, so it's usually just a solid color or blur. When I first realized this happened (since it was so subtle) I tried blocking my visual imagination and the music felt dull or empty. Quite neat, but yeah, you got something way cooler going on.
@noam3561
@noam3561 Жыл бұрын
I actually remember the first time i noticed i COULD see things in my head. I was somewhere between 3 and 6 thinking about cinderella and clocks when I told my mom that I could sort of see things behind my eyes, and she was obviously like yup that's normal. I wonder if mental imagery is something that develops around then or if I just hadn't noticed it before
@CarthagoMike
@CarthagoMike 4 жыл бұрын
The question is not whether you can _pronounce_ aphantasia, but whether you can *_imagine_* aphantasia.
@RosheenQuynh
@RosheenQuynh 4 жыл бұрын
That's like asking a sighted person to imagine what blindness is like lol
@Bjenga
@Bjenga 4 жыл бұрын
depends whether you have it or not! I do, and can't imagine actually being able to see things in my mind. What are daydreams like? Can you imagine a person's face if you think about them, or is that too detailed?
@RosheenQuynh
@RosheenQuynh 4 жыл бұрын
@@Bjenga It really depends on how detailed a mind can imagine things. For example, I cannot conjure up 3D images in my head that well. Even if I look at 3D images or things irl, they don't look quite 3D, they look kinda flat. I think I was able to see 3D images more easily when I was younger (unless those were straight up dreams and not daydreams) but now it's tough to focus long enough to hold any images in my head (unless they're intrusive thoughts/images, then I have a hard time reeling them in). Like I said, it's like a sighted person and a blind person trying to visualize what the other person sees lol Because I can't wrap my head around the idea of having no mental images. For example: Do you ever see things you wish you could unsee? Because I believe this concept requires having a mind's eye (but maybe I'm wrong).
@Bjenga
@Bjenga 4 жыл бұрын
@@RosheenQuynh Do I ever see things I wish I could unsee? Not really? Like once i've seen something gross or wierd i'm going to be grossed out for a while, but i'm not going to remember it later, so it won't bother me once a few hours or so has passed, if that's what you mean. Like I might be embarrassed that it happened if someone brings it up, but it's not going to bother me otherwise. That's something that I hadn't thought of before!
@RosheenQuynh
@RosheenQuynh 4 жыл бұрын
@@Bjenga Yeah, that's why I asked. Because generally when people say "I wish I could unsee that...", it's because they know that image of whatever will haunt them for a while - meaning they'll picture it later and feel freaked out again. Sort of like a PTSD flashback but MUCH more mild.
@koolkatstorm
@koolkatstorm 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah I could never and have never seen anything I have "Imagined". As a kid I just thought they wanted you to think really hard about what something is, not actually picture something in your head. Couple years back when I heard about this I was like there's no way people actually picture things. But when I thought about it I was like wait people really see things when the Imagine things. That's why people say picture this they are actually creating a picture in their head. Yeah everyone I asked was just yeah duh. I was just blown away that everyone I knew could make things appear in there head with color and details. When I couldn't picture something if I wanted to. However I find it really strange that most of the time they couldn't remember dreams. If they did it wasn't very detailed or colorful. So my guess is what I do in dreams is what people do when they are a wake picture ing things.
@novelnouvel
@novelnouvel 4 жыл бұрын
ah yep. you could said tgat imagination is like dreaming. its similiar sensation, only you cant control your dream.
@shadowthetwisted
@shadowthetwisted 4 жыл бұрын
@@novelnouvel you can control a dream though lucidity. Imaging something is not quite like dreaming something. I can picture something in my head, but it takes a lot of focus to make that image detailed. Someone says picture an apple, I picture it in the most simple way. unless im told to focus on it. In that case, I can make it have a reflection, water beading on it, the wooden table it sits on. Even imagine the smell pretty accurately. A dream, whilst active, is just as vivid as real life, though my memory is never that detailed. I've had lucid dreams, where I made the comment to myself that it looks so real. I could feel the grass, the sun on my skin. I could breathe, just like normal. Walk, talk, everything. Lucid dreams are one of the coolest things you can experience.
@iprobablyforgotsomething
@iprobablyforgotsomething 4 жыл бұрын
@koolkat storm -- same! I'm noticing a trend in the comments that those of us who can't clearly or at all visualize in our heads still have very vivid dreams and tend to automatically lucid-dream whether we want to or not.
@koolkatstorm
@koolkatstorm 4 жыл бұрын
@@iprobablyforgotsomething Yeah lucid dreams are pretty easy to do for me. Though feeling pain in a dream that's wakes you up and still hurts for a while after you wake up sucks lol.
@caddyshackwizard9367
@caddyshackwizard9367 4 жыл бұрын
I have never seen an image in my mind my entire life I didn't know until recently that people were able to actually see things in their own mind. I always assumed it was a figure of speech. I always feel kind shitty when someone says picture it.
@stego7782
@stego7782 3 жыл бұрын
i always thought it meant something like, think of this. Like a metaphor
@mandrewsvideos
@mandrewsvideos 3 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure people aren't actually seeing things in their head. There are very few comments on this video where people claim to see literal images in their head, just a lot of surprised people mystified about what they believe others are experiencing. Seems like most of us can imagine stuff just fine, we just wouldn't choose to call it 'seeing'. For others the term feels more appropriate, but I would guess that the experiences are not that different.
@stego7782
@stego7782 3 жыл бұрын
@@mandrewsvideos It's just people with aphantasia get this video recommended so there's a lot more people with aphantasia commenting. The sample size is way too small and way too one sided to come to that conclusion.
@fosterbennington6405
@fosterbennington6405 3 жыл бұрын
@@mandrewsvideos It’s not hard to see things, and most people can. A very important example is Howard Hinton’s cubes, they are an exercise where you have to see a specific series of cubes and layer them to get a glimpse of a 4th dimensional cube, such a thing would be impossible to do or useless to write about if nobody could see them.
@pablovi77
@pablovi77 3 жыл бұрын
@@jens7757 Well, I just asked everyone here, about 50 people, and no one can actually see the image. They imagine it, and think of it, but they don’t see it like a hallucination.
@paullukens7154
@paullukens7154 Жыл бұрын
I completed my teaching degree in 1985. At that time I had a professor who told us that children need to learn to develop (and use) the ability to visualize shapes and turn them around (rotate) before they become adolescents, or the ability to learn this is usually lost. So as a Science teacher I have tried to get kids to develop this ability... "Close your eyes and visualize a square. Now, using your mind... rotate the square to the right... " etc. Very interesting to now learn more about this. Thanks!
@marioluigi9599
@marioluigi9599 Жыл бұрын
Well interestingly enough I was quite good at the whole shape rotating thing at school. Better than the other kids, but I never actually saw anything in my head. You don't really need to. You can just "imagine" how it might look without seeing it. That's how I do it. ...But it does take some effort obviously, especially if it's a complex shape, because you have to remember where all its parts are and how they would look when it's rotated. You can't just instantly rotate the thing as a whole, because you don't see anything. So you'd be like, "I guess this part would look like thaaat when rotated, yes that's right, and that part like thaaatt, no like this! Yeah that would be right...". I suppose it would be really easy if you could simply see the whole thing and you just rotate it in front of you... which is why I'm now wondering why the other kids were actually doing worse at it than me. If they could see it, this should have been really basic. What's the problem with just rotating a shape?
@murdey
@murdey Жыл бұрын
​@@marioluigi9599I had this same experience in college with spatial reasoning experiments
@marioluigi9599
@marioluigi9599 Жыл бұрын
@@murdey yeah so why can't the kids who can see the shape rotate it easily?
@Alavashus
@Alavashus 4 жыл бұрын
I've suspected i've had this for a while now after learning about it a few years ago. It seems to be the main reason i dont like reading fiction books, but dont mind reading just straight up reference books like textbooks.
@genzo454
@genzo454 4 жыл бұрын
For me, I still very much enjoyed fiction books, because if I got really immersed, I could create a scene. However, it was more like a static image more so than anything I could really interact or change anything about. But if I try to visualize something I know, it's easy for me to make it appear, but it's like I can't see everything about it, like I know it's there and what it looks like, but I can't hold on to the image, or keep it in focus. Except for music, I can recall music quite well, especially if I have heard it recently.
@iprobablyforgotsomething
@iprobablyforgotsomething 4 жыл бұрын
@Genzo -- same, with both music and visual static images. Do you find you also have an even harder time visualizing movement? It's impossible for me to translate others' movements and copy or mirror them with my own body. I recently have suspected it's related to that thing, forget the name, where you can't tell left from right. Like, I know which side on my body is left and right. Or others'. But when people move, especially facing me, I get confused. I have to have them facing the same way I am and move slowly so I can process their movements.
@genzo454
@genzo454 4 жыл бұрын
@@iprobablyforgotsomething I don't know, I rarely ever even try to visualize movement, but probably.
@infjelphabasupporter8416
@infjelphabasupporter8416 4 жыл бұрын
I have maladaptive daydreaming so this concept just feels more alien than aliens.
@simabe5067
@simabe5067 3 жыл бұрын
Not me having maladaptive daydreaming and aphantasia and no internal monologue 👁👄👁
@tacobelle69
@tacobelle69 3 жыл бұрын
@@simabe5067 ughh I would give anything to have no internal monologue. My brain never shuts up
@endor8witch
@endor8witch 3 жыл бұрын
@@tacobelle69 be thankful. It makes you smarter than the average person. And more reflective of your actions!
@tacobelle69
@tacobelle69 3 жыл бұрын
@@endor8witch I am thankful. My mind still never shuts up lol
@chaii_latte
@chaii_latte 3 жыл бұрын
Same..
@casualtommyst8415
@casualtommyst8415 4 жыл бұрын
I realized I have aphantasia last year. Since then, exploring the differences in aphants and non-aphants has been a rollercoaster of emotions for me.
@RoyeReedBenjamin
@RoyeReedBenjamin 3 жыл бұрын
Non-aphants feels like an unnecessary double negative. Can we just be phantasians or phants for short?
@syber-space
@syber-space 3 жыл бұрын
It's crazy right! Had no idea people could actually imagine, or that I want doing it.
@PollyBonanzas
@PollyBonanzas Жыл бұрын
I’ve noticed with myself that how clearly I can see an image can vary. Like a lot of the time, if I’m asked to visualize something, it’s a lot harder immediately. Which I think may be a result of me thinking too hard about it. Almost like there’s a pressure to do so which makes it harder to concentrate. But other times images can be extremely vivid. They become the most vivid the more calm or tired I am. But another thing that improves my ability is trying to imagine something I’ve already seen, like a picture, or a face. Color, on the other hand, is a lot more difficult. Especially with my eyes closed. I feel like I can imagine a color better with my eyes open instead of fully closing my eyes. But I guess that goes with most things I try to imagine. The one time things are super vivid, detailed and colorful is when I’m about to go to sleep. I can close my eyes and see practically anything in great detail and with precise control. Almost like lucid dreaming except I’m not in a dream. It’s like that halfway point before I go completely unconscious and lose that awareness.
@Uh_Yep
@Uh_Yep 4 жыл бұрын
Text scaffolding is the BEST way I have ever heard for describing how my brain 'remembers' scenes. I cannot SEE the image in my head but I can usually describe it clearly by using the text descriptors I noted when first seeing it. I knew there was something wrong with me since I was little. Live in an art family, myself included, and seeing my family able to draw free-hand, when I was only able to draw if the item was physically in front of me to see with my eyes, made me not only incredibly jealous but also made me think something was wrong with me. From an early age I have always "taken notes" of my surroundings thru words. The man was tall, had blonde hair, was wearing a blue shirt, etc. but if I saw the man again later on, without those matching descriptors I saved, I wouldn't know it was him :(
@spring7643
@spring7643 4 жыл бұрын
I have aphantasia but my motor memory is pretty good so I don't need to see something to draw it. Reference pictures make a better result esp if I want the drawing to look super polished. With faces I became more observant and I use a ton of text descriptions to know what someone looks like.
@chuckguy17
@chuckguy17 2 жыл бұрын
I've always had this - never been able to picture anything at all. I can place where things go spatially in my head, but definitely can't "see" them. Sounds like a super power. Reddit has a subreddit for r/aphantasia. Lots of people have this, but none of my friends - they all think I'm weird.
@alicedodobirb2808
@alicedodobirb2808 Жыл бұрын
Question, when writing like for a class like language arts, do you use a lot of describing words? My teachers all say to do it but I struggle because I can already "see" them and it would be stating the obvious to me. It's why when I read, it's weird to see people describe the place or person completely different to me. I dunno this is kinda a rant cause it's my first time hearing bout this lol.
@marcwhite6596
@marcwhite6596 Жыл бұрын
U can't see what? The fact u said u can't means u already did or u wouldn't know what we're talking about
@chuckguy17
@chuckguy17 Жыл бұрын
@@marcwhite6596 uhhhh what are you talking about? lol
@blackgirloffgrid1054
@blackgirloffgrid1054 Жыл бұрын
I can't picture anything either ! Do you have vivid dreams ?
@TRDiscordian
@TRDiscordian Жыл бұрын
@@blackgirloffgrid1054 I know you didnt ask me but I also cant picture things and have *extremingly* vivid dreams to the point of routinely deeply disturbing me. Why, you too? I honestly wish I could tone them down.
@zukaro
@zukaro 4 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't be surprised if this has a lot to do with the different learning styles as well. Some people are better visual learners where others are better at learning from reading or listening to a lecture. I'd imagine that people with aphantasia would be more likely to be better auditory/reading learners.
@CRT.v
@CRT.v 4 жыл бұрын
@UCc14VjvsFrxpj8qIWWMJMvQ yes! in school i could call up information from a textbook just by remembering where it was on the page (and whether it was the left or right page), but it wasn't because i was *seeing* the page in my mind. (textbooks that had very clear divisions between sections were the easiest to recall) it's more like following the movements my eyes take while reading. in fact, when i tried the "windows of your house" thing, i counted the windows based on their relation to where i imagined me standing, or their relation to another object (window with the air conditioner is three steps behind me when facing south in the living room, window with broken blinds is five steps to my right, window by the front door is an arm's reach from the doorway and yes i had to imagine myself reaching for it, etc...). i could just as easily "see" the windows behind me or through walls as the windows that were straight in front of me. ask me how many steps my front porch has, and i mentally climb them to count. edit: wow they still haven't fixed the reply function, huh? this was in response to Nitz
@Brandon20854
@Brandon20854 4 жыл бұрын
For me, it's much much easier to learn visually and I feel like its because since I can't imagine it, I want to see it and experience it. When I read I find myself getting lost in the words and I just can't get into it. I find anything with visuals to be much more powerful because I can't picture myself.
@Paaula66
@Paaula66 4 жыл бұрын
That's actually not true! That explanation is intuitive but researchers have found that it isn't supported by evidence. I suggest reading the book Make It Stick, it's about the science of studying. There is a chapter explaining this
@Fr00stee
@Fr00stee 4 жыл бұрын
i just tried to imagine what the walls of each room in my house looked like from memory, its surprisingly hard
@philtripe
@philtripe 4 жыл бұрын
@@CRT.v thats amazing because when i read the words all go away and i save the information in pictures and general synopsis ... the only time i save information verbatim is when another person is saying it or reading to me but even when i listen to a lecture i ger=t drawn into a visual world of the person speaking... ive actually lost vision listening to great people like Noam Chomsky, being so engrossed by what they are saying
@dinoflagella4185
@dinoflagella4185 Жыл бұрын
A few times I’ve had this weird experience where I was tired and laid down. As soon as I closed my eyes I almost fell asleep and started seeing visuals. I know I was awake, but it was like I was looking a huge TV monitor that had no edges. There were multiple images and scenes going on at the same time. It went on for almost a minute then stopped. I didn’t want to open my eyes because it was a pleasant experience. The closest I can describe it is dreaming while awake.
@noman8189
@noman8189 Жыл бұрын
something similar happen to me for about 1 week after waking up, i was going into this state (asleep/wake up) i was seeing a lot of picture. I noticed during this period my visualization was greatly improved if I noted my visualization before 2/10 now 6/10. A strange experience I worried for a moment.
@KenzertYT
@KenzertYT Жыл бұрын
This used to happen to me a LOT when I was a young kid. I know EXACTLY what you are talking about and I could do it on command especially at bedtime. It was incredibly comforting
@dmcdouga07
@dmcdouga07 Жыл бұрын
this sounds like hypnogogia
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