I'd place myself on this spectrum. Not as severe as this chap, but I definitely have trouble getting clear images with my minds eye. I also find fiction books very difficult to read and get into as there's bugger all imagery.
Interesting. I'm pretty far towards the opposite end, especially while asleep. Images of completely new things aren't as clear (unless the author provides a really good description, mental images of works of fiction tend to be vague and undefined), but things I'm already familiar with are pretty much holodeck-level clarity.
That's true for me also actually. Experiences are pretty vivid, especially when it comes to, for example, taking something apart or fixing something I can easily imagine how to go about things before doing them. However the case I was discussing over breakfast with my other half was to picture in front of you the following fruit. Apple, Banana, Cherry. She would picture full colour perfect examples with texture. I just conjure up the most basic fuzzy outline.
Very close friend of mine would likely have fit this description, though neither he, nor I, knew it was a defined medical condition. He was an engineer turned programmer, well educated and knowledgeable, could discuss abstract concepts, the engineering and design of things in very clear terms, but admitted that he saw no images in his head at all. As for myself I visualize vividly, and can see objects and scenes in 3D, and move my mind’s eye through imagined scenes, and rotate visualized objects in my mind’s eye and view them from any angle. Reading a novel is like watching a movie, and I dream vividly as well and usually in color.
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I'd place myself on this spectrum. Not as severe as this chap, but I definitely have trouble getting clear images with my minds eye. I also find fiction books very difficult to read and get into as there's bugger all imagery.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I'm pretty far towards the opposite end, especially while asleep. Images of completely new things aren't as clear (unless the author provides a really good description, mental images of works of fiction tend to be vague and undefined), but things I'm already familiar with are pretty much holodeck-level clarity.
ReplyDeleteThat's true for me also actually. Experiences are pretty vivid, especially when it comes to, for example, taking something apart or fixing something I can easily imagine how to go about things before doing them. However the case I was discussing over breakfast with my other half was to picture in front of you the following fruit.
ReplyDeleteApple, Banana, Cherry. She would picture full colour perfect examples with texture. I just conjure up the most basic fuzzy outline.
The brain is weird.
Very close friend of mine would likely have fit this description, though neither he, nor I, knew it was a defined medical condition. He was an engineer turned programmer, well educated and knowledgeable, could discuss abstract concepts, the engineering and design of things in very clear terms, but admitted that he saw no images in his head at all. As for myself I visualize vividly, and can see objects and scenes in 3D, and move my mind’s eye through imagined scenes, and rotate visualized objects in my mind’s eye and view them from any angle. Reading a novel is like watching a movie, and I dream vividly as well and usually in color.
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