• tiredofsametab@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    This makes things like reading difficult or impossible. Unfortunately it also makes remembering to try reading just as hard.

    I must be weird, but I can read in my dreams (and tell time, etc.)

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      9 months ago

      Do you happen to have a photographic memory?

      The main issue, I believe, is that we don’t store memories of text well. We also don’t have a pre-built system to go from text memory to text image. The pipeline is 1 way. Writing uses a different pathway in the brain.

      A photographic memory would let your mind bypass this, and pull up real memories to fill the page.

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        9 months ago

        No. I do have aphantasia, but that’s the only thing that jumps out to me as weird (in this situation; I’m plenty weird in other ways).

        Maybe because I don’t “see” images or have a mind’s eye in the same way other people describe it, things work a bit differently. I still do dream vividly and visually, at least so far as I can tell.