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Would suggest https://aphantasia.com/ https://aphantasia.com/ and their twitter as well. As Someone with aphantasia I was still amazed as how different the leve

Would suggest https://aphantasia.com/ https://aphantasia.com/ and their twitter as well. As Someone with aphantasia I was still amazed as how different the level of aphantasia can vary between people.

Eelongate 5y ago
I tried taking their little quiz and couldn't get past the first page. It asks me to imagine somebody I know, then asks which details I can observe. But those details are unobserved until the quiz asks me about them. The color of their clothing? I wasn't thinking about any specific clothing at all, but when prompted to I'm able to imagine that person in many different outfits. Vivid details of those clothes? Sure, I can imagine details, but the details aren't necessarily there in the "image" until I'm prompted to invent them. The possible answers to the question just seem... invalid. The details are neither dim nor vivid; the details are undetermined and flexible. Maybe the quiz should first ask me to imagine that person in a specific circumstance, where those details are predetermined by my memory of that circumstance? Even then I still don't understand what the quiz really means by half these answers. What does it mean for an image to be "lively"? That it's moving around? Am I meant to be imagining a still image or a moving image? Depending on how I interpret these questions and answers, I could get completely different outcomes from this quiz.
- carreau 5y ago
  I think that part of what I discovered in the multiple degrees/kind of aphantasia. And like you most of those questions dot make sens. For many aphantasic people they do. And a lot of question I get is "how do you remember color if you don't see them in your head". One of the analogies I have is that my memory is a bit like a hash/bloom filter. I can't really get the original value, but I can tell you wether it's the same or not. I think the other part where aphantasic differ is WRT math. Others in this thread said that can't do math in their head as they can't see the number/equations. I have no issues with it but I don't rely at all on the number symbols in my head (or on paper) to do arithmetic. I wouldn't be surprised if aphantasia get more subcategories in the following decades.
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Eelongate 5y ago

I tried taking their little quiz and couldn't get past the first page. It asks me to imagine somebody I know, then asks which details I can observe. But those details are unobserved until the quiz asks me about them. The color of their clothing? I wasn't thinking about any specific clothing at all, but when prompted to I'm able to imagine that person in many different outfits. Vivid details of those clothes? Sure, I can imagine details, but the details aren't necessarily there in the "image" until I'm prompted to invent them. The possible answers to the question just seem... invalid. The details are neither dim nor vivid; the details are undetermined and flexible. Maybe the quiz should first ask me to imagine that person in a specific circumstance, where those details are predetermined by my memory of that circumstance? Even then I still don't understand what the quiz really means by half these answers. What does it mean for an image to be "lively"? That it's moving around? Am I meant to be imagining a still image or a moving image? Depending on how I interpret these questions and answers, I could get completely different outcomes from this quiz.

carreau 5y ago
I think that part of what I discovered in the multiple degrees/kind of aphantasia. And like you most of those questions dot make sens. For many aphantasic people they do. And a lot of question I get is "how do you remember color if you don't see them in your head". One of the analogies I have is that my memory is a bit like a hash/bloom filter. I can't really get the original value, but I can tell you wether it's the same or not. I think the other part where aphantasic differ is WRT math. Others in this thread said that can't do math in their head as they can't see the number/equations. I have no issues with it but I don't rely at all on the number symbols in my head (or on paper) to do arithmetic. I wouldn't be surprised if aphantasia get more subcategories in the following decades.
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