Do you have Aphantasia? What's your number?

[woken]

I can imagine pretty much anything. Is how I picture my products before any sketch is done and also how I go to sleep every night.

There’s times when I have a hard time picturing what I have in mind when I’m not sure of the shape etc, but pushing through usually ups the pixels, so to say.

I do have sort of a photogenic memory but not to a great extent where I can see a document for one second and re write it perfectly.
Years ago I started developing a “sorting process” in my mind.

I needed a place I know very well so I chosen the house I grew up in.
I sort memories in document holders in there and I can pretty much browse through them.

This helps me remember things.

And no, I’m not on drugs nor crazy

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

Interesting, I thought I was one of a few.

I have this, I am a 0 on that scale for sure.

I actually invested a LOT of time (2 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 4-5 months) effectively trying to get to 1.
It was humbling, as it was in a class with mostly young kids with reading disabilities.

But I went in every day and did the work.

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If you press me now (ie, I HAVE to do it, I can get to 1)
But, for the most part, 99% of my week, is at 0.


I think it's one of the reasons I speak (and type) the way I do. In fragments.
That's how it comes to me. There is no big picture, no big puzzle. Just pieces.

I thought 0 was better than 1? I'm confused on what the numbers mean.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

I’ve always been able to draw things out of my head. But I abandoned it because it didn’t have fastlane potential - more like street artist/performer potential.

That's more like a freelancer, or even just a sidewalker since most artists make nothing. However, Thomas Kinkade is the example of a great business from art...

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

How about mental images that move? Imagining a moving scene, for example? I'm wondering if that's rare too...

 

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[WestCoast]

I thought 0 was better than 1? I'm confused on what the numbers mean.

Totally my error - I inverted the scale.

0 is good, higher is bad. I think 5 is worst

I'm a 5 (occasionally 4 with practice)

 

[StrikingViper69]

When you say "see something in your mind", does that mean "I can close my eyes and recall a memory as if I was there experiencing it"?

Does that mean, that when you shut your eyes, you never experience darkness?

 

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[Madame Peccato]

I have a question for those with aphantasia: can you visually recall a memory? And if yes, can you modify/add objects to it?

For example, let's say you spent a lovely Sunday with your significant other. Can you recall it and change their clothes' color? Or picture them with a hat?

 

[Fox]

You know, I don’t think I could tell a sketch artist how to draw my own wife and have it turn out looking like her. I’m not kidding. I always wondered how the hell someone could give details like that about someone that attacked them.

Maybe you will get lucky and get robbed by this guy...

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

Totally my error - I inverted the scale.

0 is good, higher is bad. I think 5 is worst

I'm a 5 (occasionally 4 with practice)

Just above, they said 10 was the best. I marked 10. Not sure which is correct, just that I can picture the images clearly...