How blind photographers visualize the world
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How blind photographers visualize the world
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#2There is also this recently discovered phenomena of aphantasia which is fascinating. Lot of people dont have mental images and grow up not even aware that others can form such images. Here's one interesting account.
https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
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#3Is there a way to listen to the actual content? This is only a brief summary of the radio show.
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#4Would be interesting to actually be able to see this. But alas I'm a little bit too far from Walnut Creek
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#5Description intriguing but not much detail available at link.
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#6As a blind man this sounds like a load of BS to me! I have bin blind from berth and would have know want or need to invest all this time on something I can not see to enjoy the end product. How would you know which pics arr the rite ones? How can you show them to people when you cant even know what is on the piece of paper you are holding in your hand. If you put a pile of 10 pieces of paper in my hand and marked a line on one piece then I could not pick it out. Blind people can not be photographers. Now if you are telling me that they are low vision then that changes things but fully blind just know! I bet most of the pics are shit any, but know one wants to say. As a blind person you get this all the time. They lie to you and say well dun in a baby voice.
I go to the gym and lift Weights: and people think it is so cool that a blind person can stand in one spot and lift Weights. It pisses me off no end! "O you are so good for what you do!" No mate I am just a blind dude that wants to stay healthy and not get fat. well fatter any way lol.
I mien how hard is it to just lift a Weight bar some of the dumbest people I know are gym rats.
Sorry about my spelling.
Re: How blind photographers visualize the world
#7There is also this recently discovered phenomena of aphantasia which is fascinating. Lot of people dont have mental images and grow up not even aware that others can form such images. Here's one interesting account. https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
A few years ago, my wife and I figured out she has aphantasia. Suddenly, it made sense why she has trouble with navigating, why I have to draw things for her so often rather than just explaining the shapes of the various parts and how they fit together, and also why she finds reading most books so boring.
When she reads a book, any description of how things look just goes in one ear and out the other. When walking around a city, she can't overlay a mental map over what she's seeing.
On the other hand, I've always had good 3D mental visualization, likely part of why I was drawn to Mechanical Engineering.
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#8There is also this recently discovered phenomena of aphantasia which is fascinating. Lot of people dont have mental images and grow up not even aware that others can form such images. Here's one interesting account. https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
I discovered I have this by reading an article about it in Scientific American.
It completely blew my mind. I thought “visualizing” was a figure of speech, and was shocked to realize that people actually form images in their mind.
I’m also a photographer, and pre-visualizing shots in my mind doesn’t happen the way I’ve heard others describe their process. I immerse myself in the scene, taking everything in as fully as I can while moving around until I experience the shot/composition I want.
This turned into a kind of mindfulness for me that has led to a much deeper appreciation of the natural beauty everywhere. I do wonder what’s it’d be like to visualize, but lacking this ability has been interesting in its own way.
Re: How blind photographers visualize the world
#9There is also this recently discovered phenomena of aphantasia which is fascinating. Lot of people dont have mental images and grow up not even aware that others can form such images. Here's one interesting account. https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
A few years ago, my wife and I figured out she has aphantasia. Suddenly, it made sense why she has trouble with navigating, why I have to draw things for her so often rather than just explaining the shapes of the various parts and how they fit together, and also why she finds reading most books so boring. When she reads a book, any description of how things look just goes in one ear and out the other. When walking ar…
"On the other hand, I've always have good 3D mental visualization"
It is also a difference between the sexes
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2019/04/esc_gender_gap_spatia...
although some studies claim women are just as good but use different strategies that take longer:
https://neurosciencenews.com/spatial-cognition-sexes-15576/
possibly related:
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/intelligent-people-slower-so...
Re: How blind photographers visualize the world
#10There is also this recently discovered phenomena of aphantasia which is fascinating. Lot of people dont have mental images and grow up not even aware that others can form such images. Here's one interesting account. https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
A few years ago, my wife and I figured out she has aphantasia. Suddenly, it made sense why she has trouble with navigating, why I have to draw things for her so often rather than just explaining the shapes of the various parts and how they fit together, and also why she finds reading most books so boring. When she reads a book, any description of how things look just goes in one ear and out the other. When walking ar…
These aren’t necessarily related.
I have aphantasia (am aphantastic?) but have a great sense of direction, and think very spatially. Just not with pictures or lines in a “mind’s eye”, as people call it.