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submitted 4 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 45 points 4 months ago (20 children)

as an aphantasiac I will literally describe the worst possible scene and you will be forced to picture it

and I will win

:3

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    Yeah i'm like 80% aphantasiac, I can picture maybe the last time I saw a cow I, could probably imagine something else in the static scene, I can't even really make it turn it's head.

    There's no rotating it.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    All I got is dark gray static. No cows. The occasional moving blob of different dark gray static.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Does this affect dreams?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    I have an idea or a concept of a cow. Turns out that's not standard either and falls under aphantasia.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You're also free from seeing horrific things you've experienced over and over again. What are your dreams like?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    That might not be specifically aphantasia, but closely related symptom called SDAM(severly deficient autobiographical memory), but yes, I'm immune to seeing or reliving any of the past traumatic or bad events. Lived through past or experiences don't exist for me.

    I don't have dreams or at least the handful of times per year i have something that might resemble a dream. It's forgotten within minutes after waking up.

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