I watched this for ten minutes and didn't see anything (apart from a flashing red screen). I'm supposed to be the artistic one in the family, so I can't help but feel slightly disdapointed. I've always suspected that people who claimed they could visualize things with great clarity were lying (the "images" in my mind's eye are very fleeting, lacking in detail, and can't be focused on -- like they're on the extremes of my periphery) but maybe I really was born with a disadvantage.
Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's
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#22I watched it, twice, for about ten seconds. I found it quite uncomfortable to watch.
Re: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's
#23I watched this for ten minutes and didn't see anything (apart from a flashing red screen). I'm supposed to be the artistic one in the family, so I can't help but feel slightly disdapointed. I've always suspected that people who claimed they could visualize things with great clarity were lying (the "images" in my mind's eye are very fleeting, lacking in detail, and can't be focused on -- like they're on the extremes o…
My mental images are usually very similar to how you described yours. I'm also "creative". I've casually self-diagnosed myself as "not being able to see images in my head". However there have been times where I've had picture perfect clarity of something in 3d, including color, but it only lasts for moments and I've never been able to conjure it on purpose.
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#24I saw a few repetitive patterns: something resembling the overlapping petals of a pine cone, and a bunch of cells vaguely similar to a Voronoi diagram. They didn't last long, were faint and transient.
I get much more vivid visuals with my eyes closed.
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#25I watched this for ten minutes and didn't see anything (apart from a flashing red screen). I'm supposed to be the artistic one in the family, so I can't help but feel slightly disdapointed. I've always suspected that people who claimed they could visualize things with great clarity were lying (the "images" in my mind's eye are very fleeting, lacking in detail, and can't be focused on -- like they're on the extremes o…
Question: When asked to remember a person's face, can you see it in your head/"mind's eye"?
FWIW, I don't think the ability to visualize something specifically in your "mind's eye" has a lot to do with creativity.
I interpret this as more about direct recall of memory. The stronger the visuals the more likely you are to be able to recall a specific event/visual in more detail (whether it's accurate is up for debate).
Disclaimer, I have no idea what I'm talking about - I just like this subject.
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#26As someone who has thought that I've had aphantasia for the past six or seven years (thank you hn for teaching me about aphantasia), I'm going to give this a shot.
Yer I think I have aphantasia too. I don't see images, but I feel like I can describe things which forms a picture that I can't see but I know.
Anyway, at the very start of my 10min of ganzflicker I think I could see some very faint "wireframe" lines of no shapes in particular (just like * patterns), but these went away after a minute or so, and then it was just flashing colours, but the colours kept changing, and they were mostly reds, pinks, blues, yellows. Rarely green.
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#27Somewhat unrelated but has anyone here experience fever dreams where you are surrounded by something you can't quite comprehend and can't do anything but try to comprehend it?
It's almost like a huge maze, grid, or some other pattern but painful to look at. The dream tends to be extremely unpleasant and usually returns after falling back asleep.
I was trying to explain it to a friend the other day and didn't do a very good job.
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#28Interesting self-experiment, but results are self-reported (and failure of the experiment to elicit imagery does not necessarily imply anything about vividness). I'm not sure it really reveals any objective metric regarding vividness of mental imagery.
Most psychology research is based on self reporting. It is the standard in that field.
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#29Somewhat unrelated but has anyone here experience fever dreams where you are surrounded by something you can't quite comprehend and can't do anything but try to comprehend it? It's almost like a huge maze, grid, or some other pattern but painful to look at. The dream tends to be extremely unpleasant and usually returns after falling back asleep. I was trying to explain it to a friend the other day and didn't do a ver…
Over the more recent years, whenever I'd get sick and experience fever dreams, JavaScript paradigms would be what I'd get lost in i.e. asynchronous calls, callbacks, single-threaded nature, etc.
This comes from someone who enjoys the language, too. Weird stuff...
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#30I watched this for ten minutes and didn't see anything (apart from a flashing red screen). I'm supposed to be the artistic one in the family, so I can't help but feel slightly disdapointed. I've always suspected that people who claimed they could visualize things with great clarity were lying (the "images" in my mind's eye are very fleeting, lacking in detail, and can't be focused on -- like they're on the extremes o…
Im amazed you were able to watch whole thing - I stopped after about 15 seconds. Just felt uncomfortable to watch