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... I didn't realize people _literally_ see things when they try to visualize them?? I'm firmly #1 from the example image. TIL this is "aphantasia." h/t @nayafia

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...

IMHO it's similar to whether, if I ask people to lift a 10kg bag, different people would engage different muscles. Inability to recruit a given brain function, without instructions/motivation/training, does not tell us anything about whether that function is there or not.

Totally. It'll be interesting to see what training for this emerges as it becomes better-known. I think it'll surprise people by being less about learning to DO something and more about learning to NOT INHIBIT the part that naturally does it.https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1101313540877664256 …