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For me, the ball and table had no color - they were almost wireframes. I think the task reminded me of studying physics in university so much, that I imagined a
by glogla 5y ago
For me, the ball and table had no color - they were almost wireframes. I think the task reminded me of studying physics in university so much, that I imagined a diagram of them, not the objects.
Yeah, the more I think about it, what I "saw" looked really like a blackboard drawing of ball and table, including the shading on the ball and everything being from the "default isometric angle".
Weird.
But for the usual "imagine a beach" aphantasia test, I do imagine real beach with sand-colored sand, trees, people, sea, sound of waves and screeching of seagulls. Which makes me think two things - some aphantasia might be learned by teaching people abstract thinking, and that the artificialness of the example might be biasing.
- dhon_ 5y agoI think to say they had any colour at all in my mind might be pushing it. The way I imagine it is more like the concept of a ball and table. The imagery, while clear to me, seems fuzzy somehow if I try to resolve details. Yet I know the objects themselves are not fuzzy. I can imagine the things you describe in a beach scene, and on the surface I feel like it's an accurate depiction of the scene. But if I try to describe it in detail it starts to fall apart and the description would be vague compared to my wife.