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HobbitFoot ,

Yes. Just because I can imagine a book brought to life doesn’t mean I don’t like watching movies.

MeetInPotatoes ,

I’m a 1 but the apple would be morphing into different types and then the image would zoom in on patterns or what the bottom looks like etc. It would then shift to something totally unrelated like Sonic the Hedgehog. Why him? Your guess is as good as mine. There’s a lot going on up there and it’s noisy and constantly under construction.

To your question though, of course I don’t watch them, I skip around to the good parts.

rickyrigatoni ,

I’m a 1 and of course I do. Imagination is like playing with dolls. You already know everything going on. It’s not the same as watching something made by other people.

FangedWyvern42 ,
@FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world avatar

1, I do. The imagination isn’t a perfect replacement for everything, and I find visualising things far harder to do if I’m actively forcing myself to do it (listening to music or just letting my mind wander is far better for me, so this test is pretty difficult for me since I have to force myself to focus on the apple).

InAbsentia ,

At a 2, I have but don’t regularly.

nitefox ,

1 or 2 I guess? Also what’s wrong with watching adult videos?

Beeps ,

They are assuming you can visualize what ever you want and don’t need the videos

nitefox ,

Oh then i can… I still watch videos cause I want to be done with it; otherwise I read smut

LittleBorat2 ,

People are not all one? Do yo really imagine grey potatoes when someone says apple.

Blursty ,
@Blursty@lemmygrad.ml avatar

It’s a new fad ailment like the magically disappearing “gluten intolerance” epidemic. People with no personalities substitute these things instead. See also “neurodivergence” etc.

And009 ,

Neurodivergent is a huge spectrum we’re still figuring out. But what do you mean by fad ailment.

Genuinely curious about this scale, I’m sure there would be 4s and 5s but expect majority to be 1 or 4 depending on their context when they hear ‘Apple’

Blursty ,
@Blursty@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Maybe start using a word when it has some meaning then.

But what do you mean by fad ailment.

“…like the magically disappearing “gluten intolerance” epidemic. People with no personalities substitute these things instead.”. It’s the height of fashion to have a minor ailment these days. Particularly if it’s an unprovable one like this absurd nonsense.

Hadriscus ,

Thank you. That other guy’s take is very destructive

Arfman ,

I’m still coming to terms of people who don’t think visually, there are people who think in grayscale??

Hawk ,

I guess I do?

Visualizing stuff isn’t quite the outline one, there’s more detail. But thinking of some paintings, I can’t quite recall the colors.

joe_archer ,

I have been diagnosed with aphantasia, so I’m a 5. I have no ability to visualise anything in my head, I was in my 40s before I realised that “minds eye” is not a metaphor for most people.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

So, I worked in a job shop, I would draw things up in CAD and leave everything the default grey texture. then the customer would say “I don’t want it to be grey. I want it [wood, gold, magenta plaid, whatever]” and I would say “Yeah I’m going to make it out of [whatever], I’m just confirming the physical design.” and they would reply “I can’t see it.”

Is that you?

off_brand_ ,

Aphantasia is neat. I have to wonder how it affects the way we see the world. I’m 1. It doesn’t really take concentration, which I see on here? it’s not any harder than just a simple internal monologue anyways. But that’s always in motion whether I want it or not so 🤷

That’s including lights and reflections, but like that’s constructed by me, and so I might imagine a light reflection incorrectly. again just like I might have a definition incorrect for internal monologue.

Anyways, sure. Imagining is part of it. Like placing yourself in the situation in front of you. I don’t need adult videos to do so though. But like, having full HD imagination doesn’t replace videos of any kind, or else I wouldn’t watch YouTube either ya knoe

JokeDeity ,

:( You just made me realize I’m only a 3 and I’m missing out on color mode. This hurts.

Suburbanl3g3nd ,

Dude, I’m a 5 lol

JokeDeity ,

That’s a legitimate nightmare for me. No offense but that feels incredibly dark and bleak, I’m sorry you don’t get to see pictures in your head buddy. 🙁

Suburbanl3g3nd ,

It’s one of those things where I didn’t know until I was in my 30s and figured imagining things meant thinking about them and not actually seeing them.

If you don’t know what it’s like you can’t miss something, ya know? But there are experiments that are trying to give visualisations to aphantasia folk. I’m not sure I’d try it because then I would be missing something.

But, big pro: I can see absolute horrific stuff and I’ll never be able to reimagine it. Describe a vile, nasty car wreck? Can’t see it but I know it’s bad. It has weird benefits

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

Just in case you’re worried that you’re locked in – you’re not. Abstain from listening to music, watching TV, and consuming media for a week or two, and watch your brain literally glitter into life to provide you with entertainment.

If you want a more short-term solution: waking up after lack of sufficient sleep, and wandering to the bathroom in half-sleep mode should put you in a state of mind where it’s easy to “hear” a desired song playing in your head.

JokeDeity ,

I assume you responded to the wrong person?

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

no, you hinted that you were stuck as a 3, and I’m telling you that it’s not fixed.

JokeDeity ,

So when I was a child and these things didn’t exist and I wasn’t watching screens, why was it exactly the same? Why has it been the exact same at every stage of my life never weaker nor stronger? I’m just trying to get at the point that you’re full of shit and probably pulled that straight out of your own ass.

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

This is a public discussion. I was offering my two cents on how you or others could better their position on visualisation. I don’t quite understand where the hostility is coming from, but you coming back with your own two cents on being hard-wired naturally means that my advice does not apply to you.

vortexal ,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

yes because most of the time, it feels better to be able to turn my brain off.

But I am able to use stuff like AI Dungeon as an alternative if I need it.

wuphysics87 ,

3 or 4, but I can ‘see’ the geometry and motion of one or more objects interacting with each other or the environment. Rotation, deformation, shear, impact etc.

It is less so that I can ‘see’ and more that I can ‘feel’ and visually conceptualize that sensation in my mind. Albeit not ‘vividly’.

That might lend itself to other things

Etterra ,

Up to 1 with effort. My fiancee is a 5, which if I hadn’t already known beforehand that that’s even possible, I would have been surprised to learn.

bysmuth , (edited )

I can imagine an apple like in 1, maybe not with light reflections, but with colors and can rotate it around. But it takes a lot of concentration and effort and i’m never really sure if i’m just conceptualizing it.

I’d like to ask a different question. If you imagine something disgusting (like biting into a rotten, moldy apple) do you feel disgust? I always found it super weird when people feel disgusted at hearing a description of something disgusting and involuntarily imagining it. Meanwhile i have to do a concious effort and even then doesn’t evoke nearly the same response as seeing something real

wuphysics87 ,

Moist.

JokeDeity ,

I think it’s only a small percentage that do this as a norm, but I think if you have a personal connection to the thing being described it can trigger a reaction like that in a much larger group of people. As an example: if you’ve traumatically broken a specific bone you’re more likely to cringe at a story about someone else breaking that bone than a person who’s never broken any bones.

bitfucker ,

I do have a vivid imagination, but when I imagine doing something disgusting voluntarily I can anticipate it. Not so much when I imagine it from hearing or reading a story and in the middle of imagining things.

And009 ,

The disgust can be triggered from memories of foul smell, taste and how their parents reacted even.

Not necessarily a reaction coming from visualing a brown apple. Hope that clear it a bit.

blindbunny ,

If you think this is cool, how many inner dialogues do y’all have?

Asudox , (edited )
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

I think I am a 5. I feel like I am imagining an apple but then I am not sure whether I “see” the thing I am imagining or not. It’s weird.

Blursty ,
@Blursty@lemmygrad.ml avatar

If you were seeing the thing it would be there, in front of your eyeballs.

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