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skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 days agoI think it must be a spectrum or something because I’m fully capable of mentally picturing things in detail if I want to, but it’s a thing I have to actually /do/. It doesn’t just happen automatically when I’m reading, I have to make a deliberate decision to picture the scene.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Do you get images popping into your head at random times ever?
From my understanding imagers have a lot of that going on from PTSD to counting sheep because they need other images to stop.
I would say this is true for me with aphantasia. My sister is about to turn 40 and I just convinced her the other day that she has aphantasia. She’s an avid reader and would swear that she could picture things in her mind while reading
My mental “picture” isn’t an image but a mental collection of details that I know exists because I built it in my mind.
I know phantasia is a spectrum, aphantasia to hyperphantasia, in detail. But I don’t know much about how often imagers use their images, always assumed the better you are at, more hyperphantasic, the more you used it.