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...
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @kevinakwok and
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"
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @kevinakwok and
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.
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @kevinakwok and
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.
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @kevinakwok and
Propriozation? Hmm
The next closest sense seems like echolocation, which we think of as being like sight but consider that sound bounces around corners in ways that light totally doesn't, and there's no color or visual-texture (you can tell how soft things are tho probably)1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @kevinakwok and
Would love to hear from others who resonate with this internal sense, particularly if it feels more dominant than visualization for you. If you consider "what is my house like from the outside?" is your simulation more like a sculpture or more like a painting?
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @kevinakwok and
Aww man, mine's like Google Street view with flat surface images imperfectly stretched into 3D. Like I forgot the carport the first time and when I tried to "walk around" the mental landscape, it had to *blooop* edit itself awkwardly.
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Replying to @SarahAMcManus @Malcolm_Ocean and
Although - hmm, I can do the wireframe too - just from a different prompt than "what does it look like from outside". Uhh... I think it still usually has color but it's like vector art. Oh! Yeah, your prompt led to a raster, no wonder.
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Replying to @SarahAMcManus @Malcolm_Ocean and
Faces, though! They resist both vector and raster recall. I remember parts of faces but can't get them to cohere into an entire accurate picture in memory. ...Probably moderately faceblind.
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Replying to @SarahAMcManus @Malcolm_Ocean and
Facial recognition is weird. Thinking about it, I don't think I actually remember faces or even parts of them, though I'm just fine at recognizing people by their faces. Some sort of lossy compression?
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And now I'm thinking of facial recognition in terms of encryption, which is a really weird analogy but I can dig it.
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Replying to @imhinesmi @SarahAMcManus and
The environment I first see people in is the public key.
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