Ide love to see what you can see when you read or listen to a book. It would take so much less energy to read as much as i do. It must be like watching a movie playout inside your head with the best narrator i could imagine
Short answer is, you can’t. That’s why I don’t read books.
Longer answer is that even if you read a book you can still understand what of happening in the book, you simply won’t get a visual image of what you read. Makes books pretty boring to read IMO.
No, you don’t have to, especially if you’ve never known any different. It’s like the difference between a sketch and a photo. If the artist’s any good they can capture the essence of something with a few lines.
I feel like I’m between 4 and 5 if I try to imagine something on purpose but if I’m reading a book or someone is describing something to me I’m a solid 1 as I can vividly see what it’s being described.
I don’t know if I’m a 1 or 5. I can’t tell the difference between picturing a fully realistic image of an apple and imagining what my brain tells me is a fully realistic image of an apple and I can’t conceive of how one could tell the difference.
Does anyone else have a visual memory that doesn’t work consistently?
There are days that I can “see” a picture crystal clear high definition in my mind. And there’s other days that I “see” everything blurred, or under a fog, or hidden in something like TV static/noise.
Kind of? But it’s less specific days and more certain things.
Like apples are simple so I can see them easily, but if it’s something I’m not use to it’s kind hard to put into focus or the shape shiftd or something.
Yeah, learn how to play an instrument. Rapidly play multiple songs after each other. For a little while it’ll be quiet. I usually end up having one of the songs I played in my head after a bit though. But it’ll get rid of really annoying songs.