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Thats just called imagination. Do you think that when other people picture something it literally replaced their vision?

• iwontberude 2y ago
  When I do mushrooms I like closing my eyes and watching my brain attempt to maintain the image as it swirls and contorts into analogous yet increasingly orthogonal forms
• cynicalkane 2y ago
  This is a smug non-reply to the parent post. People with imagination might not always “replace” vision, but they can summon images to the mind’s eye other than complete darkness. And personally, I feel I can obscure the world around me if focused on a particularly powerful daydream.
• neom 2y ago
  For me to do it for long periods of time in high fidelity, I need to either close my eyes or do this blurring/out of focus thing I don't know how to describe. So in a sense, it does have to replace my vision literally. I regularly lead high level strategy meetings with my eyes fully closed so I can use my memory and imagination fully, I've seen other people do this also so I presume I'm not alone.
• fzzzy 2y ago
  It's a spectrum. Replacing their vision is called hallucination.
• hhjinks 2y ago
  That is literally how it's presented in the article. >Most of her colleagues reacted differently. They reported actually seeing an apple, some vividly and some faintly, floating like a hologram in front of them.