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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It’s something like having a Matrix-style space in your head you can put things into and modify. You don’t literally “see” something, but you understand what it would be like to see it.
The thing is that using imaginary space requires concentration and effort. The best analogy I can think of is that imagining a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs is like adding two single digit numbers in your head, and trying to rotate an octahedron with a map printed on it is like multiplying two double digit numbers.
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