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I can, and for context I've known about the distinction of people who can and cannot for years; even then I didn't notice until last year that I can't smell or
by jodrellblank 5y ago
I can, and for context I've known about the distinction of people who can and cannot for years; even then I didn't notice until last year that I can't smell or taste in my imagination and other people can. "Lemon" to me is pictures of lemons, to my mum it's a lip-curlingly intense sour taste.
You'd think it would be a simple hop years ago from sight to the other senses and which ones work in my head and which don't. But no, smell and taste are "out of sight, out of mind" for me in a way that sight isn't. When they aren't present I don't have a good way of thinking about them and don't really think about them much at all.
What about the other senses, can people imagine kinaesthetic body positions of poses they aren't currently doing? Can people imagine balancing on a high-wire or being off-balance on a moving boat, while sitting on steady ground?