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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How I ‘see’ things is almost exactly like this. I see both what is before me and what I imagine in an overlay kind of way. I can focus on either what is before me, or at what I imagine. Like you can in the video of the dog, you can concentrate to see the dog primarly, or see the vietnam flashbacks more.
With closed eyes it is easier to focus on only the imagined picture, though it isn’t in 1080p, it is still a hazy overlay, but with enough details to see everything. And it is at will, like I hear ‘a lone island with sand, a single palmtree with 2 coconuts on it, and a monkey is climbing said tree’, I very am seeing the above description before me, either in cartoonish/drawing style, or with realistic details, depends on my mood, will, and other factors, but regardless, I still ‘see’ it on overlay.
When I described the island, there was literally nothing in your head thag visualizes the words to ‘see’ the island? How did you understand what I said without visualizing it?
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