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I'm glad this now has a name. I realised I couldn't do it when I was pretty young, after the first few times I encountered the concept of "counting sheep". Like
by sanitycheck 3y ago
I'm glad this now has a name. I realised I couldn't do it when I was pretty young, after the first few times I encountered the concept of "counting sheep". Like, what sheep? Even if there are sheep, surely my eyes need to be closed in order to fall asleep? Can other people really see sheep whenever they want to see sheep?!
Unlike the writer of the article, I would definitely "fix" this if I could, a mind's eye sounds like a very useful thing to have. (I have other deficiencies/differences which I wouldn't choose to fix, though.)
- gsich 3y agoNo, because that would be called hallucination. The "internal" image is different.
- sanitycheck 3y agoSo can you, or can you not, see a sheep if you close your eyes? And if you can't, can you really say that means others can't either? This is difficult to debug.
- gsich 3y agoIt's not the same "seeing" as with your eyes open.
- sanitycheck 3y agoTo people with hyperphantasia, apparently it's pretty close. But regardless of whether it's a 4K HDR sheep or a sheep seen through sunglasses in a dark room, the idea that anyone (let alone most people) can conjure up a sheep in their mind is quite strange to me.