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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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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
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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 ?
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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
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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
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