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I could always perfectly imagine songs, make up music in my head, etc. I have no experience with music. On the other hand, I am almost completely unable to ima
by karpour 5y ago
I could always perfectly imagine songs, make up music in my head, etc. I have no experience with music.
On the other hand, I am almost completely unable to imagine anything with my minds eye willingly. I have been drawing for 15 years now, and i did not notice any improvement in being able to visualize things in my mind.
So, at least from my standpoint, it does not seem like a skill that you can easily train.
- rogerclark 5y agoThis is why it's the same thing as "what if the red I see isn't the red you see?" There's no way to prove what you're saying is true in any useful sense.
- karpour 5y agoIt is not. I recently was talking to an artist who told me that if he's drawing a car for example, he can envision everything in front of his minds eye, from any angle he wants. I am completely unable to envision anything at daytime when fully awake. Yes, if someone imagines red, we can't be sure it's the same, but this is about how some people can do something, and some people can't. I participated in a study about aphantasia a while ago, and it's pretty clear that I'm pretty much at the end of a spectrum there. There are indeed people who can imagine extremely vivid imagery. I happen to be able to perfectly imagine sounds and music, as well as compose music in my head, which I assume might be something not everyone else can do. With images, it's the complete opposite for me.