We found a cure for aphantasia everyone, if this is real it needs official studies because aphantasia is a real condition (the inability of imaginining things) that impacts people
I know a guy who has aphantasia and is using AI image generation to actually see what he’s thinking about. He explained that his imagination is more like an itemized list.
That’s exactly how my imagination is.
I can imagine an apple
It’s red It’s round It has stem and sticker
I can’t see it at all
How do people imagine stuff? When people say something like “I can imagine X vividly,” I really can’t relate. When asked to imagine things, I can only have split-second snapshots of the things in my mind. My mind’s eye is more like reading a comic.
no thought process is wrong as far as I know. you don’t need to visually imagine things even to be successful in art, I know at least one artist who doesn’t think visually, they still paint beautifully, their process just involves a lot of references and live models when possible. there’s a lot of creative professionals who use just as much visual references as they do.
I’m an artist with aphantasia! My process is different, but I’m happy with my results.
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That sucks. How do you handle / have you handled art projects in school?
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That is insanely fascinating! And it’s super cool to me that you found ways to work with it, to the point where you didn’t even notice you had it! Ever since I learned about this a few years ago, I’ve been wondering if a childhood friend had it. She always had to draw or find pictures of things before she could decide if she liked how they look. One time we had to pick a flower that we liked from a provided list of flowers. We’d all seen them before (common flowers to our residence), but she had to look up each one in a book, before she knew which one she liked. I was describing them to her, so she wouldn’t have to look them up, and she knew that this was the red one that grows outside the school and that one was the blue one that grows in the park and so on, and she still had to look them up. After your comment, I’m almost positive she had it and no one knew. The human mind is fascinating!
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This has to be satire please God
Could also be part of a significant portion of people have undiagnosed aphantasia.
Learning that some people can’t mentally visualize anything, but pictures of memories that they can’t modify since they have no imagination felt wild.
When I learned that there are humans out there who can’t picture even simple things within their minds, I felt confused.
I was able to create entire worlds before going to bed when I was a kid, fantasy worlds to explore.
I thought all humans could picture things in their minds.
All people can unless they are in the extreme minority that suffer from highly particular neuropathic disorders that render them absolutely dysfunctional as human beings. Having a weak drive for creativity and imagination is not the same as suffering from a clinical incapability.
