EXTRA BONUS! Can you imagine an emotion? For example, can you bring to mind what it would feel like if you were very angry with a friend, as though you were actually angry with them right now? (Or anything else than anger!)
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OOPS I FORGOT ONE BONUS: Can you imagine taste? For example, can you bring to mind how a chocolate cookie would taste if you were actually eating it right now?
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Replying to @esdalmaijer
Please write up the hypothesis and results as a thread, I'm super curious about the distributions of these!
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Replying to @katestorrs
Pretty sure
@camillalnord and@TimDalgleish’s lab have actual science plans in that direction, but I’ll def put the unscientific poll results in a short blog post.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @esdalmaijer @katestorrs and
Every few years this pops up on social media where somebody discovers they have it, but I've never seen anything but aphantasia for visual stuff. I assume given the etymology though that it applies to more modalities not just visually imagining.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/24/experience-i-cant-picture-things-in-my-mind …
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Replying to @o_guest @katestorrs and
Haha, same for me, tbh! Didn’t realise it wasn’t the norm. Other modalities are an interesting question, because I think people just assume you can’t imagine e.g. a smell anyway, and thus don’t consider it aphantasic? (Little poll here suggests it’s actually quite common
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Replying to @o_guest @katestorrs and
That’s super interesting! Is it as vivid as when the smell in question would be there? Or less vivid, but still qualitatively the same experience as actually smelling it?
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Replying to @esdalmaijer @katestorrs and
Oh, it's not vivid for me at all. The most vivid is visual stuff.
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I think this is an important point: I *can* visualise things if I try *very* hard, but they aren't vivid. Rather than yes/no, I think it's definitely a spectrum of how clear it is. (for me at least)
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The questionnaire that @DrGBuckingham posted makes me realise the details are like photographic for me but the overall scene is less vivid.
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