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https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-feels-to-be-blind-in-your-mind/10156834777480504/ … So even after reading this I didn't think I had aphantasia. But after your test I am shook

wtf fam! i also thought i could visualize but it’s just black

an exercise: imagine a circle inscribed in a square. what shape does the part of the square that’s outside the circle make? i can do this easily. and i always assumed i was picturing it. but is it possible i’m not actually picturing anything? how??

Yeah I also can do this easily. But if you really piush me on the granularity of my mental "image" it's not that visual. I feel like we are missing axes on how to evaluate internal thinking.

My visualization in the original poll started at #1, but I could get it to go towards #6 by persisting. I have a huge capacity for something I call spatialization, which is like visualization but for shapes, not sight. It's not directly sensory...

I do this by default when "imagining". So when people say "imagine a dog in a field" then ask what color it is, or what color is the sky, my response is "well I hadn't given it any texture, it was just a 3D shape. I can tell you how big the dog was and how it was posed"

If I mentally bring up my hometown, the immediate thing that springs to mind is a sense of main street sweeping down past the theatre with my house atop the hill. I feel the whole shape at once in my head. But there's no weather or time of year. It's an architectural blueprint.

It's very distinct from visualization. The most obvious sense it connects with isn't touch (which would again be more textural) but proprioception. It feels like my knowledge of how my hometown is shaped is similar to reaching over to turn on a familiar lightswitch in the dark.