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The interpretation of "superimposed" is important here. It doesn't mean that the imaginary image and the real image are merged like titles composited onto a TV
by theoh 8y ago
The interpretation of "superimposed" is important here. It doesn't mean that the imaginary image and the real image are merged like titles composited onto a TV screen.
- barrucadu 8y agoReading your other comment, I think I sort of agree with it. I can look at a sheet of paper and imagine something on it, and then draw that (if it's simple enough), but my ability to visualise something precisely enough to draw it rapidly degrades as the image gets more complex. On the other hand, if I'm not intentionally projecting the image onto something, my visual imagination doesn't occupy the same space as my visual field at all. If anything it's "above" or maybe "inside" my head. I can then visualise an almost arbitrarily complex image, but if I try to focus on the details they shift: I'm "seeing" the whole but not the parts.