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• blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ ago

    Does this affect dreams?

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    • blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nope, dreams and nightmares are good and vivid.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s probably not so odd, it doesn’t seem to have much of an effect on creative skills. A friend of me has aphantasia and she’s a tattoo artist.

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• Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Concepts of a cow

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ ago

  I remember everything. :(

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