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Now I'm curious which is more common. > That's exactly what I get. I can picture an elephant, rotate it around in 3-space I cannot do this whatsoever, and not

Now I'm curious which is more common. > That's exactly what I get. I can picture an elephant, rotate it around in 3-space I cannot do this whatsoever, and noticed other people in my class could. I started life in mechanical eng school, and quit shortly after specifically because of this. We were constantly tasked with not only drawing 3d shapes, but rotating them at certain angles and redrawing, things like this. I found myself unable to do so and it absolutely flustered my brain to the point of switching majors.

tshaddox 5y ago
I'm also curious if there is any difference between these two experiences other than the words each person uses to describe their own experience.
- ghusbands 5y ago
  Every time this topic comes up, there are people describing a world with a complete lack of visualisation capability of any kind (and it affecting their life/career, even, as in the person you responded to) and people describing being able to rotate things around in their head in 3d. And then a number of people, like you, claiming that it could just be a terminology difference. These are clearly very different levels of visualisation ability and it's not just terminology.