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.
I try to think about this sometimes but very quickly lose track with what I am or am not doing under the banner of “visualization” I mean it’s not literally like seeing of course and then train of thought loses the plot
Do you mean to tell me that most people can literally have at will the brain state that is otherwise produced involuntarily by seeing (presumably) real objects out in the world ?
I mean my brain does something when I “visualize” or else I would have come to this conclusion much earlier, but it’s not the same as seeing at all. Maybe it is more like a conceptual process
All I actually see at those times is what’s in front of me, if I try real hard to visualize I might kinda look up towards the ceiling to avoid distractions. But it doesn’t make any similar experience appear in my head
yeah, it's totally a superpower — I read somewhere that science/math people are more likely to have it than others.
I think my other superpower is very low levels of nostalgia.