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[-] Tahl_eN@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

For me, I wouldn't equate my ability to visualize things in my head to sight, but maybe hearing or smell. Could I interact with the world without it? Absolutely. But I do a ton with that ability. I hold lists, draw maps, plan routes, visualize models, check the contents of my fridge while at the grocery store. It also helps me make connections between disperate pieces of data. A lot of this I could do with a pencil and paper, but it's so much faster to pull it up in my head.

[-] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Wait… the way you describe it now…

I was always told of photographic memory being some super power and thought “Hey, would be neat if I had THAT!”

Was that just the ability to daydream all the time? I imagined people with like literal cameras for brains that could take a picture of a book page and read it later like a text document.

This whole time, I might have had that mystical power all along and aphantasia people just overstated how accurate it was?

[-] Tahl_eN@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

That's a good question. I don't think I've met anyone in person who claimed to have a photographic memory. I definitely don't do the "recalling long strings of numbers" thing that TV shows imply. But I can pull up a fairly accurate picture of the inside of my fridge and take inventory.

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