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I can draw you a dog, but if you ask me to picture a ball on a table, i do not picture anything specific. It is just the abstract idea of a ball on the table. I
by di4na 6y ago
I can draw you a dog, but if you ask me to picture a ball on a table, i do not picture anything specific. It is just the abstract idea of a ball on the table. It does not have colour, substance, space, nothing.
- throw1234651234 6y agoFor me - I can draw as much as I can visualize. That is, I know that a face is bisected sphere with some extra lines on the bottom for the chin. I can't hold this image clearly, but I can hold it for a fraction of a second - enough to know what to put on paper. I think drawing and visualization are pretty closely tied.
- cj 6y agoSame, at first, but if I try I can conjure a vague / unspecific mental image (the harder I mentally try, the clearer the image gets, but it never gets anywhere near perfectly clear). For example: Are you able to take a table in your house and then imagine a soccer ball on it? Or do you still come up blank with just the concept and absolutely no mental imagery?
- di4na 6y agoStill blank with the concept
- smabie 6y agoWhat about dreams? Presumably you see images of stuff when dreaming?
- yencabulator 6y agoMy dreams are very spatial, contain movement, indistinct dialogue, and sometimes an "emphatic" sensation of feelings of the characters present. There's pretty much no color, no exact shape, clothing detail etc. No surface has any pattern, really. But I know extremely clearly how 3 people in my dream were positioned relative to each other and the room.
- smabie 6y agoHow about doing math in your head? If I couldn't visualize the actual numbers I don't think I could do it at all.
- di4na 6y agoSame, tbh i can't really. Usually maths end up on a whiteboard or paper.
- yencabulator 6y agoI definitely don't "see a number" in front of me. There is some sort of shortcut memory that says 7 * 6=42, of course. For massaging an equation into the desired form, I see its "shape" (abstract from the numbers, like we had to in school with variables) and know what changes of shape are desirable. More complex math, let's say, 700 * 13, I do in my head pretty much like those equations; shuffle it to be 7 * (10+3) * 100, (7 * 10 + 7 * 3) * 100, etc. In no part of that do I see the figure of the number seven; there's a "slot" that's a concept of seven, but it's not the shape of the drawn number.
- di4na 6y agoNope. Tbh i do not dream a lot. But even in dreams, it is all about abstract things that move around me.