• blaue_Fledermaus
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    392 months ago

    It’s not as clear as real vision, but if I close my eyes I can really “see” a visual image of the thing I’m thinking of.
    Really like a “visual hallucination” as you said, but it clearly exists in, how can I say? “Another space”?

    It doesn’t automatically translate to the muscle movements required to draw it.

    • @blandfordforever@lemm.ee
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      172 months ago

      Interesting. Maybe if there’s a spectrum of ability for visualizing things, I’m just closer to aphantasia than I am to vivid mental images which rival visual perception.

      • trashcan
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        132 months ago

        I think that’s the case. It’s definitely a spectrum.

      • @k0e3@lemmy.ca
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        72 months ago

        Yes it is. People on the opposite spectrum of Aphantasia have what is called hyperphantasia.