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People with aphantasia: Can you walk through a mental map of a place you know? (lemmy.world)
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I'm curious how that kind of visual/spatial memory interacts with the inability to visualize your imagination.

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[โ€“] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

Yes. I have a good spatial thinking and memory. I know where I've seen my glasses last, I just can't visualise it.

I delivered packages for the postal service one summer during studies. It took me two weeks to memorize all the streets of the town I had moved to two years prior.

I prefer to do my 3D modelling in OpenSCAD because 2D visualizations are harder to work with than math & code.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 months ago

    I spent some more time thinking about this. Me and a group of friends spent way too many years playing a MUD game back in the 90s. Some would jot down maps of areas.

    I didn't find maps particularly helpful, but I guess I felt like the rooms had a direction and would navigate by that. I could probably still find my way around there. I'd describe it like a vector database.

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