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5 :3

It depends. If I'm relaxed, it can be a 1 with hallucinogenic effects, but if I'm tired or sit down trying to do art, it's a 4. 😅

So I'm really not sure where I lie on the scale. I try to imagine the apple but I really can't create any kind of image.

I read a bit about this and tried to imagine faces of people I know and had a little more success. However it is like I'm recreating each part at a time and as soon as I start to imagine another part, the previous disappears. I.e. I imagine the right side of the face, eye and cheek, the go to imagine the left side and the right side fades or disappears completely, imagine the hair, and the face is vague at best etc.

But also, I can also have incredibly vivid dreams!

It's almost like imaging an apple is too trivial for my mind to bother with! I try to imagine my front garden and its there, but rather vague and monochrome, so maybe 3-4.

I think I'm a 3-4? Its such a hard thing to gauge. I've known people who are 1s and 5s

I think i might be 1 or 2 or middle of it. I can create a map in my head, then rotate the map. I used to be able to do it well but lately maybe because of old, i need to focus a bit more to do it.

But then i could be 3? Because the colour could be off.

I think I'm a 4, but I could be 5 and coping. I can't decide whether I'm imagining an apple or imagining that I'm imagining an apple.

Somewhere between 3 and 5? I don't know.

Picture a line diagram of an apple, annotated with average dimensions, weight, taste, smell, possible colours, patterns, and whatnot, all cross-referenced to lists of apple varieties, recipes, and other random information about apples.

Now remove the diagram, and leave only the information. No, not as text, or spoken words, just as raw information.

That's the one, whichever number it is.

(This doesn't mean I couldn't draw you an apple, mind, the necessary information is still all there — I mean, I can't, but because my hand eye coordination sucks, not because of the aphantasia; give me a vector drawing software I'm familiar with and I'd probably be able to draw you a pretty cromulent apple.)

I guess 1 and 4. When I see or hear the word apple, I don't picture anything, I just understand the word. But when I'm prompted to picture an apple in my head, I can fully see any type of apple I can remember encountering. The moving image in my head currently has the color/texture of water paint (and some oil), but I think that's more because I'm pretty stoned

I'm like a 2. I can picture an apple, it has color and texture, but when I try to rotate it the colors don't really work, like I don't know what's on the other side. Same thing with picturing a rubix cube. I can imagine seeing maybe 2 or 3 faces of the cube and I know how rotations/moves work but when I visualize it the new faces are just colorless.

If I try really really hard I might be able to visualize colors on the new face but the colors definitely wouldn't be consistent on each side of the rubix cube.

Follow up question.

Is it easier to imagine it with your eyes open or closed?

5

Probably a 3.

Unless I have nightmares, then it gets hyperrealistic and off the scales like I can see the the mushroom cloud of the nuke going off.

Edit: To add to this, I hate reading books, its just not enjoyable for me, for the most part. I need visual media to understand. whats going on.

i literally don't know.

For me it's like seeing through a small frosted window my above my right eye, muted colors and blobs. I see some fuzzy words, max 3 letters in my upper left "field of view". Other than that all black and all images fade in a second or two.

5, unfortunately 😕

I can do 1 but typically like a 3/4. My brain doesn’t generally consider color important unless it’s a key feature. Like if you ask me to rotate an object in my head for maintenance then its bare bones almost could consider it a wire mesh. But if it was a perfect sphere but with colored sections then I would see the colors because it’s the main way to orient it.

1, but it's really really abstract and fuzzy.

4-5 typically.

Depends!

If I haven't seen it before, then 5. I literally cannot picture something I haven't seen before.

Most things are a 4 if I'm lucky.

If I've seen it a lot of times, like more than 20 times, maybe a 2 or 3. If I've seen it 100+ times then probably a 2. No, I cannot deviate from what I literally saw, and it may not even be that detailed.

Probably 3 or 4. My mind's eye is blind! Lol. I see in words, not pictures, and I'm very sensitive as well but I don't truly get "visual beauty".

Probably 4. I technically have an imagination since I did pass that psy test where you interpret stories from image boards (according to my last psych eval), but my imagination is pretty weak

0 or 1

Both 1 and 5 at the same time. If dreams are VR, conjuring is like an 1/5 AR void thought.

5. I can't dream either, but I used to be able to.

Does hyperphantasia count as 1 or 0?