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chattre@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah i’m like 80% aphantasiac, I can picture maybe the last time I saw a cow I, could probably imagine something else in the static scene, I can’t even really make it turn it’s head.

  There’s no rotating it.

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  • blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    All I got is dark gray static. No cows. The occasional moving blob of different dark gray static.

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    • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I can think about how a cow looks, colors, patters, what a cow might do but I can’t visualize anything. I didn’t know there was a word for this or that people could actually visualize things in their mind. I thought it was just a turn of phrase.

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      • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s conceptualizing.

        A better description of it with a ball experiment than i can provide.

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    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Does this affect dreams?

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      • blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nope, dreams and nightmares are good and vivid.

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        My dreams aren’t visually detailed, but i’m not sure that’s necessarily unique. I also have trouble with faces, but I can remember really long selections of words and numbers.

        Oddly I can do a really good job drawing 2d and 3d things from reference art if they’re 1:1

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  • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have an idea or a concept of a cow. Turns out that’s not standard wither and falls under aphantasia.

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    • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Concepts of a cow

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same, but I remember that I used to not be able to stop rotating things in my head… wonder if aphantasia can develop with age or maybe brain damage (yay covid, messed up some flavours and smells for me too, artificial mango flavour stuff tastes like TV static)

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      • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sadly I can’t help you out with that one. I haven’t done any deeper research into it than a basic reading of a newbie guide.

        aphantasia.com/guide/

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I remember everything. :(

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• minorkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re also free from seeing horrific things you’ve experienced over and over again. What are your dreams like?

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  • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That might not be specifically aphantasia, but closely related symptom called SDAM(severly deficient autobiographical memory), but yes, I’m immune to seeing or reliving any of the past traumatic or bad events. Lived through past or experiences don’t exist for me.

    I don’t have dreams or at least the handful of times per year i have something that might resemble a dream. It’s forgotten within minutes after waking up.

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  • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fellow aphantasiac here. Dreams are just fine, and in full color.

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    • melisdrawing@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same!

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Literal superpower. You hold us all at your mercy.

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No, I will imagine a rainbow farting unicorn singing Bohemian Rhapsody instead. I win.

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• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And in my mind I will make it happen to a bunch of clowns in DC, and enjoy every second.

  Nice try ;)

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