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I don't know whether your experience is similar to mine, but I can't visualize faces at all, even of someone I have just been looking at. I have no issues recog
by davidholdeman 5y ago
I don't know whether your experience is similar to mine, but I can't visualize faces at all, even of someone I have just been looking at. I have no issues recognizing people or visualizing things other than faces, so neither aphantasia nor prosopagnosia match.
- nhumrich 5y agoAphantasia is a spectrum.
- gremloni 5y agoThis comment describes me perfectly.
- edgyquant 5y agoI can’t visualize anything really. It’s like I just think about its shape in an abstract since but I don’t actually visualize anything it’s all words and thoughts in my head, no images.
- neuronic 5y agoI heard this very often and am always quite curious about it, as I cant relate. Whenever I imagine something it's a mix of abstract, foggy stuff and vivid clear images. I don't "see" them, I think/dream them like replaying a visual input without involving the eyes.
- gremloni 5y agoCan you close your eyes and visualize a red, three dimensional star rotating?
- neuronic 5y agoYes until I also visualized a derpy dog orbiting it whose tongue was hanging out.
- arthurcolle 5y agoWhat is a 3 dimensional star? A star is a 2D shape, so this statement is ambiguous
- edgyquant 5y agoNope I just think about a star and it rotating but there is no visualization or images involved
- jikbd 5y agoThere was an article about this here on hn some time ago. People who don’t have a mind’s eye.