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You say "apple" to me and I'm #1, glossy skin, insides, all that

And how in the hell does one navigate life, or enjoy a book, if they're not a #1?! Reading a book is like watching a movie. I subconsciously assign actor's faces to characters and watch as the book rolls on.

Yet #5's are not handicapped in the slightest. They're so "normal" that mankind is just now figuring out we're far apart on this thing. Fucking weird.

EDIT: Showed this to my wife and she was somewhat mystified as to what I was asking. Pretty sure she's a 5. I get frustrated as hell when I ask her to describe a thing and she's clueless. "Did the radiator hose pop off, or is it torn and cracked?" "I don't know!"

EDIT2: The first Star Wars book after the movie came out was Splinter in the Mind's Eye. I feel like I got that title. What's it mean to you?

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[–] Potential_Pinata@sh.itjust.works 66 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Isn't 5 is called Aphantasia ? To be unable to visualize something in the mind?

[–] Mondoshawan@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It's more of a spectrum with hyper- and a- phantasia being the extremes on each end

(Prophantasia is considered the ability to project imagined images into your physical field of view)

If you really want to blow your mind (heh), you should check out SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory), which is thought to be linked to aphantasia

[–] Potential_Pinata@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wow. I didn't know about the term "prophantasia" until now. Probably because I think that visualizing things in our 3d world is a normally developed imagination power of the people who don't have Aphantasia.

Prophantasia seems like biologically evolved Augmented Reality. Where instead of wearing a piece of AR glass, We're naturally born with this trait.

I can pull out my palm in front of me and visualize a small cat jumping around. Not for too long because I cannot imagine the random movement a cat does. But, as a still object, visualizing an apple is easy.

I am more curious to wonder if someone can manually develop Spatial Intelligence without being born with it priorly.

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait you can not only in some sense see a-cat-on-your-hand when imagining that, but also see an imaginary cat on the hand you are actually seeing???

Do you then not see the stuff behind the cat while you are imaging the cat to be in the way???

[–] Potential_Pinata@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Imagining a cat on my hand is just for adding easiness.

I can imagine a cat anywhere. Right now, a tall water bottle is on a table in front of me. I can imagine a cat one the table, walking towards the bottle and ultimately jumps on it. I can also imagine the bottle to shake or fall down as an impact.

Imagining a still object, for example an apple is more easy. I can imagine the apple has a non scientifical gravity trait and it keeps bouncing on every flat surfaces around the room.

I've been considering this as normal imagination power for the people who don't have Aphantasia. Probably because I can imagine like this with ease.

Seeing past the thing that I imagine is kinda a cognitive blindspot. Because, I don't try to look past what I imagine. A cat or an apple.

Only when I get aware of the fact if I really do look past or not, the confusion arises. But it is much difficult for me to imagine a transparent object. Like an apple made of glass.

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