TIL people can imagine colour.
TIL some people can visualize but it’s in black & white or devoid of color all together.
For me, I can visualize things from 2 up to entire scenes. I don’t “see” it like with my eyes, it’s like a dream, sometimes a vivid dream.
I could dream up a scene right now involving me buying 20 photorealistic apples in a store I often go to. I thought this is normal and everyone does that.
TIL color is not the default mode for everyone
I’m a 1 and yes I do. I can imagine something, but it’s hard to concentrate on something super detailed and fully enjoy myself
interesting
1 here as well. I can even mimic the sensation my body would get, yet I prefer adult content to save on processing power.
I’m definitely a 1, and generally I don’t. I do, however, really like interactive fiction in both work safe and non work safe contexts. I think I really enjoy being able to visualize it in my mind more than I do watching it.
I’m not sure if it factors into your pet theory, but I’m asexual so the appeal of physical forms is also very lost on me. That’s a different can of worms that I’m happy to open if interested, but I’ll leave it be if not.
first you said you enjoy erotic fiction, then you said you’re asexual, am i misunderstanding?
I was a 5 before my head injury, now I think I’m a 3 if I close my eye and really focus on it.
But also? I’ve liked adult literature the entire time. “Visualization” is overrated.
you can visualise better coz of a head injury?
I couldn’t visualize even slightly before! Total aphantasia.
Now if I focus really hard I can briefly see images and memories. It still doesn’t come naturally but the difference is staggering.
Wow, care to tell more about what that was like? I’m aphantasic, and the idea of suddenly unlocking the ability to visualize is fascinating to me.
Anyone else with a variable place on the scale? I’m 3 normally but can go up to 1 on a limited scope in short bursts with effort.
It’s like my brain has a limited rendering throughput so it’s either a low quality version of the entire object, or a small high quality zoomed in sectionIt varies with mood.
For one: Relaxed body: better visualisation
1 or 2, watch tonnes of porn
I like your direct communication style.
I’m 1, and no, not really. But that’s more for ethical reasons.
I’m between 4 and 5, and no, I don’t need to. I can conceptualize things pretty well, I just can’t do it visually.
1 or 2 I guess? Also what’s wrong with watching adult videos?
They are assuming you can visualize what ever you want and don’t need the videos
People are not all one? Do yo really imagine grey potatoes when someone says apple.
I have been diagnosed with aphantasia, so I’m a 5. I have no ability to visualise anything in my head, I was in my 40s before I realised that “minds eye” is not a metaphor for most people.
So, I worked in a job shop, I would draw things up in CAD and leave everything the default grey texture. then the customer would say “I don’t want it to be grey. I want it [wood, gold, magenta plaid, whatever]” and I would say “Yeah I’m going to make it out of [whatever], I’m just confirming the physical design.” and they would reply “I can’t see it.”
Is that you?
I’m still coming to terms of people who don’t think visually, there are people who think in grayscale??
It’s a new fad ailment like the magically disappearing “gluten intolerance” epidemic. People with no personalities substitute these things instead. See also “neurodivergence” etc.
Neurodivergent is a huge spectrum we’re still figuring out. But what do you mean by fad ailment.
Genuinely curious about this scale, I’m sure there would be 4s and 5s but expect majority to be 1 or 4 depending on their context when they hear ‘Apple’
Maybe start using a word when it has some meaning then.
But what do you mean by fad ailment.
“…like the magically disappearing “gluten intolerance” epidemic. People with no personalities substitute these things instead.”. It’s the height of fashion to have a minor ailment these days. Particularly if it’s an unprovable one like this absurd nonsense.
huh?
I stopped watching kids videos at the end of my kid life. Everything I watch is adult videos now: news, math, finances, cooking
I guess I am 1, and I do watch Itchy and Scratchy sometimes 😎 (It’s a very scary and therefore adult series)
3 or 4, but I can ‘see’ the geometry and motion of one or more objects interacting with each other or the environment. Rotation, deformation, shear, impact etc.
It is less so that I can ‘see’ and more that I can ‘feel’ and visually conceptualize that sensation in my mind. Albeit not ‘vividly’.
That might lend itself to other things
I’m a one and yes. That part of my brain has a direct line to the input somehow, and can’t be fooled by a mere mind-picture.
I’m interested in how women would answer, because men seem to be way more visual, and women more conceptual, even across orientations.
Im a 1 and I like adult content but i especially like games, 3D and traditional animation. Cause yeah, i can go in the spank bank in my head if I need to, but its never gonna be as fantastical as what an animator can do
