cross-posted from: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/13513868
I incidentally visualize a 3D object in my head complete with blender's UI. For some reason that helps
this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
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Now render it with cycles.
Sorry, my brain just crashed
Now I have a fever
Now do a shiny apple, on a mirror.
A talking apple? How novel.
Why do I feel annoyed by this picture?
I am also annoyed by the POTUS.
I have a friend at work who openly confessed to not being able to mentally create images when discussing why he wasn't into reading books.
I was like "Wow, I can't really imagine your reality for myself, that sounds strange."
he said, "Now you're getting it, as I can't imagine it, either."
Video games and film though? 1000X more entertaining for him via his testimony. He can't conjure those images so seeing someone else's interpretation is often thrilling.
On the other hand, I also can't create images in my head and prefer reading.
I can't really do that either and I read books.
I also do have an inner monologue which might be a part of it.
Wait are there people without inner monologue?
Yeah! I don't think I do in the sense some people do, in the sense that some people describe having a narrator or something like that. If I am to think in words or sentences it takes a little more effort and happens when I'm thinking about talking to someone or putting things into words, whereas my passive thinking is generally wordless, and more conceptual/spacial/tactile.
I don't think I have an inner monologue. Also I have full Aphantasia. I can't visually imagine an apple let alone rotate it in my mind.
Do you have dreams?
I do! I visualize when I dream. But I can't do it on command. This is how I realized I probably have aphantasia. I can never consciously visualize. I can think and conceptualize, but not 'see'.
I also have aphantasia. I only learnt about it a year or so ago. It was eye opening when I realised. People used to say "picture this or that" and I thought it was a figure of speech! Turns out there are people who can picture shit.
it's absolutely wild! I still struggle to imagine how other people can picture things.
Waiiiiit. It's not just a figure of speech?!
welcome to the rabbit hole!
I realized after reading about people with aphantasia that what I do is kind of a combination of visualization and conceptualization. If you ask me to imagine a cow, I'll tend to visualize the cow itself, but it doesn't come with a field for the cow to stand in. The cow is just in the concept of a place. That is, until I concentrate on visualizing details of the place, at which point I'll probably lose the visual of the cow. Like, it's still there, it's just become the concept of a cow.
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Yes, it's quite wild but I guess I can't really say that as someone without the ability to imagine things.
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I often find myself getting distracted from whatever I'm watching because my brain takes over and starts making up alternative scenarios.
I've noticed my brain lately has been doing this thing where I'm watching something cool and it goes, "hey, wouldn't it be cool if <exact thing I'm watching>?"
Well, yeah, but why are you activating the "I have a cool variant idea related to this" pathways and distracting me instead of just watching how this one plays out?
Edit: corrected "largely" to "lately"
apples are uniquely hard to rotate in your head because apples are bland and uninteresting and nobody's favorite fruit. try rotating a cow instead. it's free and the cops can't stop you
Same as the comic, you got to utilize the stem and the leaf, or maybe give it a worm or something
What the fuck did apples do to you to deserve such a scathing review. Are you a doctor?
You lied to me! I started rotating cows but the cops still arrested me for tax evasion
A cow is too complicated, I would rather rotate a banana. I'm actually doing that right now, just rotating a banana in my head.
And there's nothing we can do to stop you!
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Lol. Im on the autism spectrum. You have no idea the complexity I can visualize and manipulate in my mind. I basically have CAD software in my brain.
I've got two kids. I told my older one "you've got a blackboard in your brain, practice making it bigger and making the things you write on it last longer". He says "oh yeah you're right cool".
My younger kid doesn't have one. Just, not there. She has an incredible eye for color and immediately sounds like a native when learning a new language, though, which neither of the other two of us have.
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A friend of mine has that condition where she can't visualize things. I wonder how she would like this comic. My guess is she'd crack a joke about it being a good thing she can't do this.
I developed aphantasia. I used to be able to visualize things and now cannot... EXCEPT for in the first 20-30 minutes after waking up. It is quite disturbing since I only recently realized this, but can't actually tell when the last time I was able to picture or conjure things in my mind visually.
What's crazy is that I have no problem conceptualizing the apple. I am highly capable of imagining it. Not only that, I am a DM for a D&D game that's been going on for nearly a decade - so it has no bearing my creativity. Also, I am an artist and can draw and paint both realistic images as well as stylized or abstract things without problem.
I wish I could see images again. I do like being able to do so after waking up. Perhaps that's how I can exercise the skill and try to extend it.
Sorta sounds like your job / routine is making you stressed and unable to focus
This might be it.
I gave up watching the news daily back after the November election. Since then, my creativity has returned.
The only logical thing to do is quit my job so the hallucinations will return.
I can't really imagine the combinations you described.
If someone described a sunset or other vivid cliché, that would spark what in your inner eye?
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I've got aphantasia and honestly the comic kinda reminds me of how I feel 'left out' but I also spent most of my life trying to draw and only found out about the term a few years ago making me realize I spent so much time following a dead end. that's just a me thing tho
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This comic always freaks me out
Something about those characters is so uncanny
My first attempt at rotating an apple in my head after reading this had the apple moving in 4 steps to do a full circle. Now the apple is spinning at a high speed after some more thinking.
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