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Where you fall on the imagination spectrum depends on how clear the object you are asked to visualize is in your mind. For example if asked to visualize a gree
by lovethevoid 2y ago
Where you fall on the imagination spectrum depends on how clear the object you are asked to visualize is in your mind.
For example if asked to visualize a green banana, and you can only see vague, unclear, faint outlines of a banana, that's hypophantasia. If you cannot see an image at all, it's aphantasia. Some might see vivid details of the banana, like the matte skin and subtle green gradient, they fall under hyperphantasia. Others who lack the details but are still clear considered phantasia.
This also applies to all other senses, like being able to imagine a sound or smell.
- jncfhnb 2y agoBut surely nobody sees the fruit rendered into their actual vision as if all mental imagery appears as a literal hallucination in their vision.
- jaggederest 2y agoVisual hallucinations due to mental illness are uncommon but not unknown. I'd be reluctant to dismiss the idea that someone on earth can and does do that. I'm pretty far down the visualization direction myself.
- CTDOCodebases 2y agoI've done a meditation where you sit open eyed and visualize something within the space. It was cool. Sort of like a hazy projection over the visual field. Normally when I visualize something with my minds eye it is on a black background. When the visualization ends my visual field snaps back to reality.