Interesting! I'm totally a memory palace person and I actually store information with location of where it was encountered. I often visualise the place first then the information re-emerges. On the other hand, I do notice underlying patterns in such a matter of fact way, that it
This is the closest I've ever seen to my thing described — I can mentally map & manipulate conceptual, emotional, even kinetic information. I can pass tests intended to exclude aphantasia. But I cannot easily navigate an imagined physical space or rotate a complex visual object.https://twitter.com/startuployalist/status/1144310525142003712 …
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feels not to be happening in my head, but in my body. (Like it is beyond vision or language, beyond interpretation, in a way). This visualisation for me only occurs with *texts*. I grasp any text's architecture very clearly, and deal with it in a structural way.
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Yep, began to notice this at ~15 yo. My best friend and I wrote stories for each other at the time. Hers had a stunningly acute, naturalistic portrayal of the world (she’s a biologist), mine was almost entirely interior, vividly describing a non-physical abstract space.
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For a while, I thought there was something wrong with me. Then I noticed a pattern; a blurring of time, and that when I read someone’s work for a while, I can feel like I’m reading from *inside their mind. I don’t know if that makes sense.
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I don't even have a visual space for concepts. Instead everything maps to what I can only describe as a pseudo proprioception
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What’s kinetic info?
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How complex would the visual object be? The spatial ability tests I’ve done have had some flaws
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I think I’m the same way! What are some of those tests meant to exclude aphantasia?
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Do you enjoy description of scenery in fiction? I hate it, because I can't visualize it. The author spends two pages on trees and lakes and birds and hills and all that sticks in my mind is "we're in the woods".
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I can easily navigate a complex physical space and rotate objects in my mind, but can't visualize much more than a dim triangle.
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