What is it for?

  • NaN@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    Out of curiosity do you visualize in your mind? Like if I say a stapler can you conjure one?

    The people with both Aphantasia and Anauralia fascinate me.

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      10 months ago

      I’ll chuck in my answer since I’ve been asked this before too.

      I don’t “see” a stapler. I perceive a future state where the pages are stapled. This does appear visually in my mind but not a a a picture of stapled pages rather a set of symbols that incorporate the task “to staple” into the other things that I am concerned with at the point of thinking about that task.

      “Set of symbols?” Is probably your follow up question - yes, geometry or iconography that describe the path from here to that future state where that pages are stapled.

      That’s the best I can do. None of this is literally narrated in my mind, however typing this out to you each sentence is “auditioned” as I imagine I am speaking it to you.

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        10 months ago

        That is fascinating! And different than I’ve heard described elsewhere by either the “non-visual” or “non-verbal” thinkers. I think I am pretty generic, when I think of a stapler I literally see a red swingline stapler floating in a void like in a 3d modeling program (that stapler specifically due to the movie Office Space, and therefore I also own one).

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            10 months ago

            Makes total sense to me that you think this way then.

            I teach middle school and I think mostly verbally with pictures thrown in.

            “I should staple this” plays in my head and I have a dreamlike image of a stapler I’m looking for, or perhaps its location. If I focus, I can make those pictures very vivid, but usually they aren’t in my day to day.

            I talk to myself in my head literally non-stop. It’s a full day dialogue with myself - which I suppose makes it a monologue. But it’s pretty involved with a lot of back and forth.

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              10 months ago

              It’s so interesting. I imagine your experience is something like Venoms relationship with Eddie Brock which cracks me up!

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      10 months ago

      Absolutely. My day job is as a conceptual artist (seriously, the hours are good and I get to travel). Visualising objects is a large part of that. I’ve also worked in video game level design and found thinking in terms of 3D space pretty easy too. Just no words in there, or specifically, no voice.