I have aphantasia, a mental disorder where I lack all internal visualization. I cannot “picture” things in my mind, I think in words and numbers and such. With this, I am very curious how the mental imagery works for the rest of you. Do you see it separate from your main vision? Does it get interposed? Is it like picture in picture? I’m baffled!
TIA.
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For me it is a bit like Adobe illustrator or MS Word, most visual elements are kind of separate and only “rendered” in a vague sense when I think about it, but I can still compose quite a large detailed image in my mind but only focus on small parts of it or a very rough approximation.
It is really more the concept of the image than a large “jpeg” that I store.
And i work as a visual artist. Experience helps, I kind of know often what kind of elements work better with each other, but I still need to sketch it out on paper/Digitally to try it for real.
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