Yep! Craziest thing is that we just started looking into this thing in the past 10-20 years. Proof to me that it’s no handicap, but if you took my mind’s eye away I’d feel crippled.
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Potential_Pinata@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Isn’t 5 is called Aphantasia ? To be unable to visualize something in the mind?
shalafi@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Goodeye8@piefed.social 6 hours ago
It has its benefits. You can talk absolute depravity, like Trump farting so much shit into Ivankas mouth that liquid diarrhea is overflowing from the side of her mouth with chunks of yesterday’s pasta bolognese dangling off her chin, and get no mental image of that filth. But you can enjoy that imagery.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m probably 1 but I can tune stuff out.
Stuff like “you are now manually breathing” doesn’t really bother me.
I’ve also got a lot of intrusive thoughts so maybe I’m just practiced at shutting it down.
Mondoshawan@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
It’s more of a spectrum with hyper- and a- phantasia being the extremes on each end
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