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learning that people can’t imagine how things look or don’t have an internal monologue is like discovering a new species. literally wtf how do you live like this

i have an inner monologue but 4 in the linked chart for visualization scale

I didn't even know it was possible to be a 1 or 2

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that’s crazy 

I don’t think I can mentally visualize anything I haven’t seen in some form (eg movie, image, real life)

I can _understand_ it without visualizing it which is why I didn’t even know that full visualization was a thing

as a kid i was able to start fully controlled dreams before falling asleep. could imagine lifelike anything with my eyes closed and then transition into sleeping and dreaming about it. 

that went away as i got older but i can still visualize things in my head quite well

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I pretty much never remember dreams but for the few I do: don't remember any touches. I do remember things that were said but can't recall the sound, just the words of the sentence. I remember settings but no visuals e.g. I will remember "we were in a tent" but no visual will pop up for the tent or the people. Don't remember any zoom in or outs, never thought about that before lol 

generally for any sense (visual, audio, touch, smell, etc.), I can recall existing things but not imagine new things with that sense. Imagination is word / setting based where I can understand what it is but not imagine the actual sense itself

only realizing all of this as part of this thread, never thought about this before. Assumed everyone was like this lol

Can you imagine touching something in your imagination? Do your imaginations have sounds of their own? What about zooming in or out?

My dad is an artist and it's like he has a tv in his head that he can conjure anything on. My imagination is mostly colorless. 

I want to meet someone who is a 1 but for smells. I haven't heard anyone talk much about the other senses. It's always visualizing and inner monologue.

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no not necessarily in outline, I meant more that I can visualize hazy things if I really try hard but more often than not I dont really have images popping up in my head when I remember something 

funnily enough, it's easier for me to remember a specific picture as an object than a moment in time because just moments are fully hazy / outline-y in terms of visuals (not in terms of memory itself)

I enjoy both and I enjoy reading descriptions of nice visuals because I can inherently relate to beautiful things (same for all of us I imagine?) but again, I don't have literal visuals popping in my head when I read it

you visualize stuff in outline? Brains are wild. 

Do you enjoy reading books and if so fiction or non? Curious if that scale has anything to with reading proclivities.

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I was talking about this with @rafi 

Aphantasia is wild.