Okay, I did this, but it turned into Lowly Worm's car, so I made the camera pan around it like a sweet music video or MTV's "Pimp My Ride", then he peeled out and drove away
My wife asked me the other day to do something similar and picture an image in my mind. I was like, ummm, picture it? I can see maybe concepts of a picture 🤣.
I literally only learned about it Christmas of 2023 so yeah it's not well publicized. What the hell do they mean picture a beach isn't just a metaphor?
got a constant stream of inner voiced out thoughts and can not only picture (or sound) anything i want, i can also rotate them without problems in my head and also can selectively chose only to do parts of that or not visdualize stuff at all.
Interesting theory, but I don't think it's linked. I have aphantasia and not much of an internal monologue. I have think very hard if I want to "sound"magin
Then there's those of us with an internal monologue that can be just as visual as it is audio... and can include other senses. Seems odd to me that an internal monologue would only involve audio.
My memory is fuzzy on this but I do remember an episode where bubbles ran into the woods because she felt useless and found out she had the power to speak with animals but I think the pentagram is not real.
Oh hey, nice to see a guest appearance of the Bad Apple from the hit episode of cult classic TV Show Veggietale, aptly named "Larry Boy and the Bad Apple" featuring Bad Apple, the apple
For many years I thought people were being metaphorical when they said "picture an apple" until my husband told me about aphantasia and suddenly realised that apparently people can just imagine things in their head
I really don't think it's a totally natural, innate thing like some people say tbh!
Some might have more or less to start with, (i have a hunch that playing pretend+making art as a kid makes it stronger)
but i think It's absolutely a skill one can improve at.
i have almost no imagery, i can sometimes recall flashes of recent, emotionally charged memories but that's it. oddly enough when i dream there's a visual component, though i only am aware that i dreamed maybe once a month when i wake up. it's all internal monologue for me
To me, it's crazy, because when I imagine an apple, it fully comes to life for me. I can see the glare from the sun on the apple, smell the tree it came from, and feel the flesh of the apple as I grip it, taste the juice and hear the bite as I tear into it, hear the wind bristle the nearby leaves.
I've always wished there was a 0 on that apple scale, one where more than just the visual appears in your head. When I'm told to picture an apple, I get a whole scene where the apple exists. I just googled hyperphantasia on a whim, and apparently that's what it's already called.
I don't know how many others experience whatever it is that I do. 🤔 But I know that there's a study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34872033/ ) that says 3-4% of people have literally no mental imagery experience.
And my life partner is one of them ☺️ So, I try to be mindful the everyone is unique.
I have zero mental imagery, but I can still imagine something, and "picture" it in my mind - there's just no associated photo or movie. Same with music and voices. But I can still sing a song to myself there's just my voice not theirs.
Yeah, I have basically my own voice just talking in my head rather than out loud. Blew my mind people hear other voices, kind of worries me honestly. Hope they're ok.
Huh, almost same here
I have *some* mental imagery though and it's got slightly better since i started drawing
But i still can't fully picture something in my head as if in real life
Sounds are the same, and textures go slightly better, the best thing i can imagine is probably a smell
I’m pretty sure I have partial aphantasia cuz creating mental imagery takes a lot of effort from me and it’s not even bound to end up looking good. Not to mention it has a habit of always being in motion in some way, being very detailed one second but then being very vague the next.
I've found getting back into reading has significantly improved my ability to mentally picture things. It's probably an innate thing on some level but reading definitely 'exercises' this ability imo
Thinking about it, being able to make mental pictures out of the words is what turned reading from a chore into an adventure when I was like 8! Probably why I don't remember reading anything before Harry Potter, the first book I could visualize.
the best i could do when conjuring an apple is half of doofenshmirtzs' head with sans undertale wearing Supreme in the background laughing for .75 seconds
Ye I got crazy aphantasia, I try to imagine an apple and all I can recognize is that the concept of an apple is at the front of my mind, no sight of it and if I close my eyes its just a blank void.
humans are weird
I'd personally rather abstain from sharing the extent of my phantasia because I don't feel like you can really have any good idea of how much you have compared to others, and in trying to describe it you would potentially just alienate yourself or others.
I'm aware of the concept of an apple and I can get briefly little flashes if I close my eyes and wiggle them around but nothing coherent. It's a sliding scale.
For me it is just an image in my mind. A memory or construct, and that's it. But the more I hear about it, the more it seems like I'm supposed to be able to do more than that.
Anything I picture is a colored blob. So if I rotate it, I get ... drumroll, please ... a colored blob. I gather it's quite unusual to picture exact colors without other details. But color is huge for me. Bland makes me feel meh.
Until my psychology major nibling led me through an exercise, I would have said I could. But when asked to describe features, I can't. So I have a concept, more than an image. The concept is strong. But the image is blobby. My nibling tells me it goes with my ADHD, and for them, with their autism.
Interesting. The apple is fully textured and detailed and 3d, but apparently i cannot rotate the apple. So i tried to just "move the camera" around the apple, but i apparently can't do that either. My camera is a fixed point. The best I can do is a little stop-motion changes to the apple.
I have this theory that everybody can "see" an apple in their head if they try, we all just dont agree on what "seeing" it means, because like...i can imagine it, but the sensation of thinking about the visual is not strictly the same as seeing something for real.
nah, you know what an apple is though...when i say "think of an apple", the idea of an apple comes to your brain...some people just discribe it as "seeing" it.
The ability to picture things in ones mind is not how everyone's minds work, there's even a known condition name for it. Aphantasia, and picturing an apple in your mind is one test you can preform for it. If you can't picture it, its likely you have this condition.
Me and my Auditory processing issues pretty much depends on my ability to form mental images. Helps solve a lot of problems, but forget to repetitive tasks because I just remember doing it from the last time.
Getting it to rotate, easy. It's trying to get it to stop where my mind struggles a little. Someone help me slow this apple down before it spins too fast.
I have tried this thought experiment. I know what an apple looks like, can draw one for you right now. Know the color, the shape, could even cut it and get the star pattern of the seeds, etc…
But I don’t “visually” see an apple in my head. Can’t turn it around, nothing. But the knowledge is there.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
that includes movement and really, really, really huge distances either in space or time or both
It's Not Flat With The Ground (Major Error), And Is OverLapping Another Detail On The Top-Right (A No-No For Central Details).
Oh, no relation to that quiz? Okay 😄
Some might have more or less to start with, (i have a hunch that playing pretend+making art as a kid makes it stronger)
but i think It's absolutely a skill one can improve at.
I rotated it
Dan Hentschel's bright red screaming head
Me: No, there is not enough physical space to put an apple in there.
Just putting this one out there for the peeps who are unfamiliar with aphantasia, or don't see an apple when asked:
Like, i can't go a second of silence up there, but some people just exist like that??
And my life partner is one of them ☺️ So, I try to be mindful the everyone is unique.
I have *some* mental imagery though and it's got slightly better since i started drawing
But i still can't fully picture something in my head as if in real life
Sounds are the same, and textures go slightly better, the best thing i can imagine is probably a smell
humans are weird
It's just a reminder we all process the world differently
~The Apple
Unfortunately, *stopping* the idea of spinning it is like *not* thinking about pink elephants...
So the apple starts tumble-spinning again. Oh, and it is now green and red, done in a candy-stripe spiral.
W̷o̶r̷s̷h̴i̶p̵ ̶m̸e̷ ̸m̵o̶r̵t̸a̶l̸
https://youtu.be/A91tvp0b1fY
Good luck lmao
But I don’t “visually” see an apple in my head. Can’t turn it around, nothing. But the knowledge is there.