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Could also be part of a significant portion of people have undiagnosed aphantasia.
Learning that some people can't mentally visualize anything, but pictures of memories that they can't modify since they have no imagination felt wild.
Aphant here! I would actually love your theory to be true but unfortunately no amount of training or practicing makes me better or even able to visualise. Believe me, I spent many years trying and practicing art before I heard about aphantasia and realised thats what I have.
If I looked at 10k slop pictures and their corresponding prompts I wouldn't be able to imagine the outputs any more than I already can (which is not at all).
Likewise I can't do meditation or self-hypnosis where the guide says stuff like "imagine you're lying on a beach" etc. At least it makes me immune to those stage hypnotists who try to get someone suggestible up on stage.
It's so trippy to me because I'm opposite of that. If I'm daydreaming, I see the worlds inside my head almost as clearly as the real world, to the point where they overlap. I can be looking at a street in the real world and wherever my daydream is taking me, I see that as well on top of the real world.
I find it both fascinating and hard to imagine (ironically) how someone could see absolutely nothing in their head if someone told them to think of a tree growing out of a lake or a car that is also a three story house.
If there is one thing that upsets me about living, it's that I will only ever experience the world once and through one perspective.
Maybe that's not true... https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI
I love The Egg ❤️ that story changed me as a person when i was in my early 20s xD I was even thinking about that story when I wrote my comment. By far one of the coolest depictions of empathy.