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NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

As someone else mentioned with hearing music, people can also smell smells, taste tastes and conjure up imagery. When they read books the reading turns into a movie like thing or something like that.

It’s all bundled up as visualization.

Some people can’t visualize at all, or can to varying degrees.

When you can’t, it’s called Aphantasia. If you can’t do any visualization at all (maybe some can hear music, but nothing else) that’s called total aphantasia.

The one part that’s still a weird conversation for me is the inner monologue. I can think, I can read words, but it’s not my voice? It’s not my voice like people say they can have a conversation with themselves or pretend to have one with someone else.

So I lean to thinking I don’t have an inner monologue as others would describe and expect, but I still do?

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