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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So like, I've heard about this for ages but I struggle understanding. I definitely cannot "see" anything when I close my eyes, I definitely cannot "see" anything in my mind/imagination. I can "picture" things but that picture is more or less an emotional feeling about the thing, I can imagine certain parts of it but it's more or less a conversation with myself about what I would see or experience about the thing, as if I were describing something that I'm feeling while blindfolded.

When they say visualize something in your head, do people actually see something as if they were looking at it? Else I just figured that visualizing meant more or less an analogy of how we make sense of the actual experience.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not as vivid as seeing it for real, or even dreaming of it. It's more akin to how you can "hear" a song that's stuck in your head.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yes. Although some details might be wrong if my memory of it is lacking, i can quite literally picture an image of the thing i'm thinking of.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They play it poorly. Source: aphantasiac with short term memory disabilities who can't learn chess well bcit's too much visualization and memory

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