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Does anybody else experience a similar phenomenon but with their auditory system? Whenever I'm falling asleep in a room with white noise (usually a fan) I swear I hear people talking, songs, animal noises... But it's just the fan.
Wow, so many people don't see anything, almost as if aphantasia isn't a real thing and it's just normal.
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 o…
Not sure why they talk about it being "wrong" since obviously you are functioning enough to be commenting on a site on the internet rather coherently....
I am almost completely aphantasic and saw zero visuals
The actual survey result says that most experience simple shapes (60%).
39% saw colors other than red and black.
24% report very vivid colorful and complex images.
25% didn't see anything (answer "No").
(doesn't add up to 100% because multiple options could be selected)
A quick internet search reveals 1-3% of people have aphantasia.
I wouldn't rely too much on the results of this test w.r.t. aphantasia.
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There's a test I'd like to give someone with your abilities one day, and I'd love if you took the time to try this. I forget where I originally saw it, but it goes something like this: Imagine you're looking down on a grid of squares. It's a little bit like a chess board, but it's only four squares wide and four squares high. In each square is a single letter, and each horizontal row spells a four-letter word. The to…
> My suspicion is that people who claim they can visualize images perfectly won't be able to do this Note: I do not "claim" to visualize, I can do it, like many others. Remember that aphantasia is the uncommon condition. I cannot see vertical or diagonal words and in fact have trouble focusing on the words. I can see one at a time clearly, but if I focus on the others the rest become blurry. I can see the checkered b…
I too can recall scenes from my last holiday trip. I can "see" the night time scene at the bar, the placement of me and my friends around the table, the lady in a white shirt delivering our drinks -- but it's not the same as a real photograph. It's a different type of vision altogether. It's possible that there are people who are experiencing the same thing as I am, but are describing what they are seeing as a clear photograph. My argument is that it's not a clear photograph if you can't inspect any details.
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> My suspicion is that people who claim they can visualize images perfectly won't be able to do this Note: I do not "claim" to visualize, I can do it, like many others. Remember that aphantasia is the uncommon condition. I cannot see vertical or diagonal words and in fact have trouble focusing on the words. I can see one at a time clearly, but if I focus on the others the rest become blurry. I can see the checkered b…
Thank you for your answer. The reason I wanted to give this test is that I think we may be experiencing the same thing, but interpreting what we see differently. I too can recall scenes from my last holiday trip. I can "see" the night time scene at the bar, the placement of me and my friends around the table, the lady in a white shirt delivering our drinks -- but it's not the same as a real photograph. It's a differe…
In fact, I suspect many of my mental images are inaccurate and my brain is making some stuff up. I'm not claiming to have perfect recall, just that I see visual imagery with my mind :)
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I had those dreams from time to time, it looks equally disturbing like those AI memory images: https://imgur.com/ocplHAy Sometimes it is very fast morphing shape of objects and events, morphing into other shapes and events ... But what is most disturbing is that during the dream everything looks logical and known, it is feeling like tapping to some higher source of knowledge, but as soon as I wake up, it seems my bra…
This reminds me of people's reaction to this image: https://twitter.com/melip0ne/status/1120503955526750208
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> My suspicion is that people who claim they can visualize images perfectly won't be able to do this Note: I do not "claim" to visualize, I can do it, like many others. Remember that aphantasia is the uncommon condition. I cannot see vertical or diagonal words and in fact have trouble focusing on the words. I can see one at a time clearly, but if I focus on the others the rest become blurry. I can see the checkered b…
Thank you for your answer. The reason I wanted to give this test is that I think we may be experiencing the same thing, but interpreting what we see differently. I too can recall scenes from my last holiday trip. I can "see" the night time scene at the bar, the placement of me and my friends around the table, the lady in a white shirt delivering our drinks -- but it's not the same as a real photograph. It's a differe…
I however can hear passages of music I remember well: the opening from Star Wars, parts of Kind of Blue or songs from Pink Floyd, the intro song of many TV shows, etc. I probably cannot pass a test equivalent to the crossword puzzle either, but I definitely can hear the music and it's not just me mumbling in my head.