Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 day agoThis one I find difficult to comprehend.
My inner monologue is petty much my entire thought process. How does one think and rationalise without one?
alternategait@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m a 5 on this scale (maybe a 4 if I’m distracted, processing other stuff) and I have a big component of kinesthetic sense and some emotional tone comes into play. It actually often takes work for me to turn ideas into words. This gets harder if I’m tired or sick or something.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
I am a 5 on this scale, and for all other senses. No smell, sound, touch or taste either.
So yea; it when I say my inner monologue is pretty much my whole thought process.
It totally blew my mind; when I realized others could see actual images in their heads.
The no inner monologue thing still boggles me. Considering my point of view; where it is all of my inner self.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
“Picture in your mind”…
Me, a 5 on the scale, young: Weird turn of phrase, but okay. I have the… idea of an apple.
Me, still a 5 on the scale but now an adult, in about 2023, learning about aphantasia and that other people were being literal about mind’s eye: WHAT.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Yep…me for 40 years; that is just a metaphor to help think about things. Then one day reading about aphantasia…WTF!!!people can actually see, it’s not just a metaphor.
But then I had a conversation with my partner; she can combine flavors in her mind and know, pretty accurately, what stuff will taste like; it is one reason she loves cooking.
People can actually get a song stuck in their heads…again, not a metaphor.
Mind blown!!!
My 7yo can project images from his mind into the world; what the hell. He can “watch” movie when looking at the wall when he is in bed going to sleep; with the sounds and everything.