Re: all those posts about people who can't picture an apple in their minds, it's less that the phenomenon blows my mine, it's that I'm more curious how that effects literally everything about their lives...
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Like here's an example from school. I always HATED mnemonic devices. They got in the way and I felt like it was this extra step of getting in the way. Instead? I would literally just picture the solar system in my mind. But it goes further...
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I did well in school because I took really, really good notes during class. When time came for test time, I would literally just picturing me looking at my notes and all the information was there in my brain, like I was looking at a picture. I also only have to see movies once.
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But of course this goes other ways. I can't remember if I told things to people. And in the last few years on and off depression has WRECKED a lot of my long term memory (which was always solid) and especially short term. It's strengths and weaknesses.
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It blew my mind when I learned that people do actually see pictures in their minds when reading books and that it's not just a figure of speech.
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I have a friend who thought inner monologues in film & TV were just a cinematic device to represent thoughts & not how many people actually think.
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Okay but now think about the people who can visualize so strongly they can basically draw over their own vision
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*raises hand*
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I'm somewhere in the middle. I can picture an apple if I try, but it takes some effort and the apple is somewhat hazy. One way that this affects my thinking that I've noticed is I'm very bad with spatial memory. I basically only learn directions through rote memorization.
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Somewhat ironically, I love fiction and am an avid reader of it. I almost never have a "movie in my head," occasionally I get a dream-like view of a specific moment or action. Characters from prose fiction in my head don't have distinct facial features.
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This thought comes to me quite often. I have images in my mind, I have music, I have an innner monologue. How is life without all that? It's hard to imagine.
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Music and inner monologue work fine for me even though I can't visualize things... I haven't even been able to find a clear answer on whether they're meant to be correlated.
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