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It's incredibly easy to "typical mind" and expect that the normal inner experience of being human is the same for everyone else as it is for you. There's a wid
by nalllar 6y ago
It's incredibly easy to "typical mind" and expect that the normal inner experience of being human is the same for everyone else as it is for you.
There's a wide variance in visual imagery. I know people who can vividly imagine things with their eyes open, find it easy, almost automatic, others who have to try, and some who can't at all.
Similarly there are wide variances in how people think: some think very visually, some have an internal monologue (or multiple), some have an inner experience with neither.
I used to be nearly aphantasic - having only brief flashes of vision except on the edge of sleep - but have been slowly training the skill after finding out it's possible, and normal, to do more.
- JshWright 6y agoWhat sort of "training"?
- nalllar 6y agoFocusing on spending time around the edge of sleep on thinking about things -> sometimes seeing flashes of them -> eventually can do it on demand more? Now focusing on those -> trying to imagine more intricate details. Afraid it's hard to explain, and if I'd been fully aphantasic to start (including when nearly asleep) would not have been able to make any progress. Same type of issue as trying to explain how to move a specific muscle or unfocus your eyes