BlkPillPres
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Turns Out Not Everyone Can Picture Things In Their Mind And Sorry, What?
Oh no, I just got over the whole "not everyone has an inner-monologue" thing.
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Close your eyes and imagine and apple, what do you see?
I stumbled upon this randomly and this has to be some kind of "internet joke" thing, it doesn't make sense, being able to "imagine" is something all humans can do, there's no way something this fundamental to "consciousness" could be this different among humans.
For me it's a 1 and I just think it has to be a 1 for everyone, I can even dynamically change the colours of the apple or change the apple into something else, it's your own mind, there's no way this is legit.
Why am I so late to this meme.
Someone in a twitter post about this linked to this reddit thread:
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/cpwimq/ball_on_a_table_visualization_experiment/
Ball on a Table - Visualization Experiment
All credit goes to u/Caaaarrrl for this experiment.
Try this: Visualise (picture, imagine, whatever you want to call it) a ball on a table. Now imagine someone walks up to the table, and gives the ball a push. What happens to the ball?
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Now, answer these questions:
What color was the ball?
What gender was the person that pushed the ball?
What did they look like?
What size is the ball? Like a marble, or a baseball, or a basketball, or something else?
What about the table, what shape was it? What is it made of?
And now the important question: Did you already know, or did you have to choose a color/gender/size, etc. after being asked these questions?
For me, when asked this, I really just sort of conceptualize a ball on a table. Like, I know what that would look like, and I know that if a person pushed it, it would probably roll and fall off the edge of the table. But I'm not visualizing it. I'm not building this scene in my mind. So before being asked the follow up questions, I haven't really even considered that the ball has a color, or the person a gender, or that the table is made of wood or metal or whatever.
This is contrasted when I ask other people this same thing, and they immediately have answers to all of the follow up questions, and will provide extra details that I didn't ask for. IE, It was a blue rubber ball about the size of a baseball, and it is on a wooden, oval shaped table that's got some scratches on top, etc. That's how I know that the way they're picturing this scene is different and WAY more visual than how I am.
I like to think of it as "visualizing" vs "conceptualizing". I don't think of it as a disability or something to be freaked out about, though it is definitely strange to think about. It isn't a hindrance for me at all, I have excellent spatial reasoning and a really good memory, and I'm good at abstract thought, I just think about things differently than most other people."
Guys, this shit can't be real, it's blowing my fucking mind, this can't be real.
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