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Could you describe into words how your mind works, how imagery is rendered in your mind’s eye and how you perceive the world around you? Also, do you have a min

Could you describe into words how your mind works, how imagery is rendered in your mind’s eye and how you perceive the world around you? Also, do you have a mind’s eye like non aphantasiacs do? I suspect not all blind people perceive the world in the same way just like the non blind.

tapper 3y ago
OK here goes. Pleas don't mind the spelling. I was born with glaucoma and had both my eyes removed when I was 2.5 years old. I cant remember being able to see, but I can remember wearing verry thick glasses. They made my nose ake. I cant remember what things look like or cullers. If someone asked me to think about something like a beach I would think about how it would feel under my hands - feet to be on the sand, the sound of the see and the smell of the see. I would all so think about the feel of wind and sun on my skin. Because you have to be in motion to feel things with your hands I would think about all this as if I was walking a cross it. If I am asked to picture somthing simple like a cup or a plate I will remember what one feels like in my hands. When I have dreams I have ones that have all the other censes in them but no site. I have verry strong emotions in them and some dreams can stick with me for a long time. It's strange as I am not like that in my waking life. I don't think that has anything to do with me being blind though.
- tapper 3y ago
  O yeah just to add. When people talk about cullers I will think about things that are linked to the culler. Like a banana for yello. this because this is all the word yellow means to me. So when some one says the word yellow I will think about what a banana feels like and the same with orange.
- lacrimacida 3y ago
  I feel very similarly when I have my eyes closed, I imagine things and objects but I see blackness. Hard to put into words but it’s like I feel it, be it shapes or colors. How do you like reading very descriptive passages? I have a hard time conjuring up and connecting to a scene that has too many details, but my blind imagination doesn’t fail to feel any gaps for things more open ended. I imagine there are different perception modes for various blind folks and that there’s a lot of variety in it as well.

tapper 3y ago

OK here goes. Pleas don't mind the spelling. I was born with glaucoma and had both my eyes removed when I was 2.5 years old. I cant remember being able to see, but I can remember wearing verry thick glasses. They made my nose ake. I cant remember what things look like or cullers. If someone asked me to think about something like a beach I would think about how it would feel under my hands - feet to be on the sand, the sound of the see and the smell of the see. I would all so think about the feel of wind and sun on my skin. Because you have to be in motion to feel things with your hands I would think about all this as if I was walking a cross it. If I am asked to picture somthing simple like a cup or a plate I will remember what one feels like in my hands. When I have dreams I have ones that have all the other censes in them but no site. I have verry strong emotions in them and some dreams can stick with me for a long time. It's strange as I am not like that in my waking life. I don't think that has anything to do with me being blind though.

tapper 3y ago
O yeah just to add. When people talk about cullers I will think about things that are linked to the culler. Like a banana for yello. this because this is all the word yellow means to me. So when some one says the word yellow I will think about what a banana feels like and the same with orange.
lacrimacida 3y ago
I feel very similarly when I have my eyes closed, I imagine things and objects but I see blackness. Hard to put into words but it’s like I feel it, be it shapes or colors. How do you like reading very descriptive passages? I have a hard time conjuring up and connecting to a scene that has too many details, but my blind imagination doesn’t fail to feel any gaps for things more open ended. I imagine there are different perception modes for various blind folks and that there’s a lot of variety in it as well.