Ryan J. Shaw
@rjs
When I read LOTR as a kid, I couldn't stand the scene descriptions that ran for multiple pages. Drove me mad, didn't understand what it was there for. Many years later I discovered I have aphantasia, no wonder I hated it.
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Blue Cockatoo
@bluecockatoo
Wow, when/how did you realize you had aphantasia? Is visualization something you can develop as a skill or would that condition just make that impossible? I wonder what causes it. My life is so enriched by being able to visualize things in detail. I wish you could too!
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Blue Cockatoo
@bluecockatoo
Sorry if all those questions are too intrusive. I have been fascinated with the brain and creativity since I was a kid and things like that just really make me curious!
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Ryan J. Shaw
@rjs
2 yrs ago. I'm not 100% unable to visualize, I get a brief blurry flash if I try to recall an object. It might be possible to practice it, but it seems my brain used the wires for other stuff... eg. I think of things in terms of graphs (x is related to y in z way), this allows me to quickly detect mistakes in reasoning
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