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I used to wonder if this was just a difference in semantic understanding of the word "to see", just as two people might argue whether a color is blue or green
by jp57 5y ago
I used to wonder if this was just a difference in semantic understanding of the word "to see", just as two people might argue whether a color is blue or green or on what side of some arbitrary line some liminal experience falls.
The thing that changed my mind was that the aphantasic people I've spoken with say their dreams have no visual component. They don't have a visual experience when they dream. My dreams are intensely visual; I am absolutely seeing things when I dream.
- pxc 5y ago> the aphantasic people I've spoken with say their dreams have no visual component. They don't have a visual experience when they dream. My dreams are intensely visual; I am absolutely seeing things when I dream. I don't think my dreams have no visual component, but it's often the case that certain visual properties are just not filled in. Like someone's shirt might just not have a color in my dreams. Not grey, not transparent, and not like everything is black and white. Just that it didn't any color in particular, just didn't have that feature