• Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    Yeah complete aphantasia is crazy.

    The point is that no-one does that sort of thinking with language, as it’s not really applicable.

    • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      I was really confused when you said picture an object then flip it. When people say picture something I always assumed that was a way to say think about the thing. I guess because I can think about things, obviously, but I can’t picture them. Their wouldn’t be a thing for me to flip if someone asked me to picture an object which left me wondering, wtf do you mean flip it.

      • mrcleanup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Picture a teapot. Picture it turning over so you can see the other side. Sort of like that.

        • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          I guess my point is that I can’t picture something in that way. Picturing a green apple vs a red apple. I don’t actually visualize anything. I can think ok it’s a sour apple or sweet apple but I don’t have a visual to modify. The teapot I would just be thinking ok the teapot is upside down, theirs nothing I can visualize that would change. I have tried really hard, especially when I miss loved ones, I wish I could bring about images of them in my mind really badly.

          • mrcleanup@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Faces are hard for me too, but not impossible. It’s like AI. It’s easy to get a “teapot” but it takes more work and focus to get a specific individual.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      it’s wack, shits even weirder when you dream.

      My dreams often get retconned into the real world, unless my brain immediately determines them to be bullshit. Which is uh, unsettling.

    • DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      i can imagine textures and tastes and stuff and geometry relatively complex but when i try to imagine colors all i get is a flat color diagram or an empty room with only one colour