Close your eyes and think of your childhood bedroom. Do you see the bed, dresser, door, pictures, etc as if it's in front of you like you're looking at a a picture or is everything blank? As if you know where the items go but can't actually see their textures and details.
Can you taste rainbows?I can see textures, I can feel sounds. Have you ever been on a volcano when it's erupting?
Not being able to visualize things is a real condition called aphantasia. I have it and didn't realize others *could* visualize things.
I am saying that I cannot see something in my mind's eye like a picture. I can know what I want to do for a golf putt but I cannot see a golf ball if I close my eyes.
It affects 2% of the population and the reason more people don't know about it is because we don't talk about the way we internalized images and thoughts.
When I read youR title, I visualized an "r" that wasn't really there.When you close your eyes and picture something can you clearly visualize the item or do you imagine it's there without actually "seeing" it?
Not being able to visualize things is a real condition called aphantasia. I have it and didn't realize others *could* visualize things.
I have never heard of this, but that sounds an awful lot like me. On the other hand, when it comes to things like the test where you have to imagine what a three dimensional figure would look like if unfolded flat I rock at it but I don't think that is the same thing at all. My issues are more memory based or converting details in text (like in a novel) into a visulization. I can understand what is happening but am unable to marry the described visual details to the action.Not being able to visualize things is a real condition called aphantasia. I have it and didn't realize others *could* visualize things.
This was my first thought as well.This finally explains mtowncyclone13's fantastic and utterly awesome Avatar's. Many of us can still see that avatar when we lay down at night. But mtown has to keep looking at it to remember the physical details of it's awesomeness.
The world has now come into focus for this question.