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Mondoshawan@lemmy.zip 20 hours agoIt’s more of a spectrum with hyper- and a- phantasia being the extremes on each end
Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.
Mondoshawan@lemmy.zip 20 hours agoIt’s more of a spectrum with hyper- and a- phantasia being the extremes on each end
Potential_Pinata@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Wow. I didn’t know about the term “prophantasia” until now. Probably because I think that imagining things in our 3d world is a normally developed imagination power of the people who don’t have Aphantasia.
Prophantasia seems like biologically evolved Augmented Reality. Where instead of wearing a piece of AR glass, We’re naturally born with this trait.
I can pull out my palm in front of me and imagine a small cat jumping around. Not for too long because I cannot imagine the random movement a cat does. But, as a still object, imagining an apple is easy.
I am more curious to wonder if someone can manually develop Spatial Intelligence without being born with it priorly.
planish@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Wait you can not only in some sense see a-cat-on-your-hand when imagining that, but also see an imaginary cat on the hand you are actually seeing???
Do you then not see the stuff behind the cat while you are imaging the cat to be in the way???