Not the guy you were asking, but it's like old tube tv when you switch it off. There is an after image for an fraction of a second at 2% opacity and then blank, nothing.
Ideas live like a non-visual, non-textual concepts more akin to feelings but not quite so.
I am good at maths, IT, programming and reasoning problems.
Bad at any sort of visual, mehanical problems. For example in a car engine I can not connect naturally how one part effects the other without knowing operational concept beforehand.
I also don't have any narrator voice in my head but my dreams can be extremely vivid.
I remember in meditation guides when they tell you to imagine you are on the beach and whatnot, I always assumed this is figure of speech.
I'm not sure what the opacity is for me, I think higher than 2%, but I wouldn't necessarily describe it as low opacity, it's more like very low frame rate of the actual image vs everything black. Or sometimes it's off color like grayish blueish instead of colorful.
I also have to focus hard. When I look at an object and then I close my eyes, if I put effort in I can see it blinking fast between black and the object and then black smoothly becoming more and more dominant, but it's longer than a second, and I guess how long depends on how much effort I put in.
I'm also terrible at real life 3d things and remembering how to navigate without GPS, or remembering places.
> I remember in meditation guides when they tell you to imagine you are on the beach and whatnot, I always assumed this is figure of speech.
I kind of also thought it was figure of speech, I do feel like I can get some sort of low imagery to black framerate going on if I imagine penguin in a snow cave, but it takes so much effort it doesn't feel pleasurable or worth doing. I never understood counting sheep either, thought it was some sort of joke.
I wonder how much miscommunication or misunderstanding there is between people, because everyone assumes they process things in the same way.
Also I wonder when saying disgusting, shocky or dark humor related things, it seems nothing to me since it's just words, but I wonder if it offends or shocks some people so much because they get the actual imagery.
I asked someone with hyperphantasia, and they said that they do indeed see images, but they also don’t bother them or are a positive even. Someone on the more normal side said they need to actively picture them, it’s not unbidden. And finally, someone else said that they can’t read about child sexual abuse without seeing it, which makes them avoid any such accounts.
> Also I wonder when saying disgusting, shocky or dark humor related things, it seems nothing to me since it's just words, but I wonder if it offends or shocks some people so much because they get the actual imagery.
Ohh, that is yet another thing I never thought of. Would be interesting to know.
Yeah, this is spot on. I just tried it again with 4 large letters I had conveniently in front of me, they were instantly gone, and I could only remember what they said, but have no visual.
Ideas live like a non-visual, non-textual concepts more akin to feelings but not quite so.
I am good at maths, IT, programming and reasoning problems.
Bad at any sort of visual, mehanical problems. For example in a car engine I can not connect naturally how one part effects the other without knowing operational concept beforehand.
I also don't have any narrator voice in my head but my dreams can be extremely vivid.
I remember in meditation guides when they tell you to imagine you are on the beach and whatnot, I always assumed this is figure of speech.