Apeman42@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 12 days agoPeople with aphantasia: Can you walk through a mental map of a place you know?message-squaremessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up17arrow-down1message-squarePeople with aphantasia: Can you walk through a mental map of a place you know?Apeman42@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square8linkfedilinkfile-text
I’m curious how that kind of visual/spatial memory interacts with the inability to visualize your imagination.
minus-squareprocapra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days agoLet’s use a cube as an example. I can tell you roughly how large it is, if its rotating and roughly how fast. I “visualize” absolutely nothing. Not even a vague outline.
Let’s use a cube as an example.
I can tell you roughly how large it is, if its rotating and roughly how fast. I “visualize” absolutely nothing. Not even a vague outline.