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You might have aphantasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

by ergl 3y ago

gverrilla 3y ago
Maybe. Help me. When people in this study say they see for instance a circle when they think about a year, what do they mean exactly? a) every time they have to operate the "year" concept they see this mental image b) when they deliberately want to create an image out of the concept of a "year", they see a circle If (a) I'm probably wildly aphantasiac. If (b) this is only conceptual art.
- ergonaught 3y ago
  Having ridden this rollercoaster myself, it seems to vary from person to person but most of the people I know have some degree of "a", and can choose "b". You spend some decades thinking "counting sheep" was meant figuratively; you discover that was not the case.
- lucideer 3y ago
  > what do they mean exactly? Firstly, this study explicitly prompted people first to visualise years as a circle, so there's no guarantee respondents do this every time - so to answer your MCQ, the answer here would most likely be (b). However, if you were to ask whether people visualise something (be it a circle or some different visualisation) every time they have to operate the "year" concept, I suspect the answer would be (a). TL;DR: Aphantasia likely fwiw, Ed Catmull's Disney survey on this topic is interesting (referenced in the wiki article above)
  - gverrilla 3y ago
    Yeah, it seems I'm very aphantasic. Not even deliberately I can create an image of "year". But I can easily write/speak a text about the concept. Now it makes more sense: people always made fun of me when playing Dixit, because when "calling" they would use 1 or 2 short phrases at most, and I would instead declare a very long idea, concept or story lmao. They asked me to be "simpler" or "shorter", but I just wasn't able to do it. It also explains why I always lost in this game because people mostly couldn't grasp my text-based descriptions (winning was never my goal, though). Perhaps it has to do with my bilingual upbringing: juggling with language was my main job for a longggggg time.

You might have aphantasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

by ergl 3y ago

You might have aphantasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

Maybe. Help me. When people in this study say they see for instance a circle when they think about a year, what do they mean exactly? a) every time they have to operate the "year" concept they see this mental image b) when they deliberately want to create an image out of the concept of a "year", they see a circle If (a) I'm probably wildly aphantasiac. If (b) this is only conceptual art.

ergonaught 3y ago
Having ridden this rollercoaster myself, it seems to vary from person to person but most of the people I know have some degree of "a", and can choose "b". You spend some decades thinking "counting sheep" was meant figuratively; you discover that was not the case.
lucideer 3y ago
> what do they mean exactly? Firstly, this study explicitly prompted people first to visualise years as a circle, so there's no guarantee respondents do this every time - so to answer your MCQ, the answer here would most likely be (b). However, if you were to ask whether people visualise something (be it a circle or some different visualisation) every time they have to operate the "year" concept, I suspect the answer would be (a). TL;DR: Aphantasia likely fwiw, Ed Catmull's Disney survey on this topic is interesting (referenced in the wiki article above)
- gverrilla 3y ago
  Yeah, it seems I'm very aphantasic. Not even deliberately I can create an image of "year". But I can easily write/speak a text about the concept. Now it makes more sense: people always made fun of me when playing Dixit, because when "calling" they would use 1 or 2 short phrases at most, and I would instead declare a very long idea, concept or story lmao. They asked me to be "simpler" or "shorter", but I just wasn't able to do it. It also explains why I always lost in this game because people mostly couldn't grasp my text-based descriptions (winning was never my goal, though). Perhaps it has to do with my bilingual upbringing: juggling with language was my main job for a longggggg time.