Most interesting thing I learned about myself in the last decade (thanks to that one post by the Facebook guy): I have aphantasia, which explains like 90% of my thinking.
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It’s totally a superpower. All of you normies are trapped in your visual worlds of illusion.
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Wtf!
You don’t picture 2x2’s in your mind? What about those drawings you do for breaking smart? -
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Amazing! Do you also not have memories or is that just him? I would have thought factual memories would still be possible. "I had eggs for breakfast." "I was friends with So-and-So in college."
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I, with aphantasia, have memories, but they are factual things, like what you describe. So I know I had egged for breakfast (I did actually!), but I don’t have a visual of my breakfast table. I don’t think I have much episodic memory though, and some people with aphantasia do.
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So! I’m pretty sure I have hyperphantasia ... and I’m fairly sure I don’t have a milk voice :) I was actually quite relieved when I found Einstein’s description of how he experienced thought:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7670584-the-words-of-the-language-as-they-are-written-or …
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I found out when a friend described a dress someone else had worn a few years earlier, and I realized she could actually see it on her mind.
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