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I always thought the close one is used for things that are closer to the speaker than the listener, the middle one is used for things that are more or less in b

I always thought the close one is used for things that are closer to the speaker than the listener, the middle one is used for things that are more or less in between the speaker and the listener, and the 'far' one is used for things that are far away from both the speaker and the listener. can any native speakers say whether there is any sense of that, or does it not have anything to do with the listener?

glandium 9y ago
Not native, but essentially, ここ is here, as in something close to the speaker, そこ is there, as in something close to the listener, and あそこ is there, as in something that is neither close to the speaker nor close to the listener. Now imagine a variant of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m-kbBamg_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m-kbBamg_U with the 3 words.