El Laucha posted:

Yesterday I found out that something I had described to a few people now has a name: aphantasia (http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054).

Basically I cant visualize anything graphically when I close my eyes (or with open eyes). Take a beach for example, if I tell you to image a carribean beach, you'll probably see a picture pop up in your head with white sand beaches, turquoise water, some palm trees, big bootied ladies chilling under the scorching sun, you get the idea. I dont.

I know what it looks like, but I dont see it in my head. I see the idea of the beach. I can't really explain it better, read the article.

e: here have a cat pic

El Laucha posted:

Yesterday I found out that something I had described to a few people now has a name: aphantasia (http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054).

Basically I cant visualize anything graphically when I close my eyes (or with open eyes). Take a beach for example, if I tell you to image a carribean beach, you'll probably see a picture pop up in your head with white sand beaches, turquoise water, some palm trees, big bootied ladies chilling under the scorching sun, you get the idea. I dont.

I know what it looks like, but I dont see it in my head. I see the idea of the beach. I can't really explain it better, read the article.

e: here have a cat pic

Jerry Cotton posted:

I don't have your brain sickness but no, I don't see a picture pop up and I doubt anyone else does either. That's not how it works.

El Laucha posted:

Yesterday I found out that something I had described to a few people now has a name: aphantasia (http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054).

Basically I cant visualize anything graphically when I close my eyes (or with open eyes). Take a beach for example, if I tell you to image a carribean beach, you'll probably see a picture pop up in your head with white sand beaches, turquoise water, some palm trees, big bootied ladies chilling under the scorching sun, you get the idea. I dont.

I know what it looks like, but I dont see it in my head. I see the idea of the beach. I can't really explain it better, read the article.

e: here have a cat pic

Jerry Cotton posted:

I don't have your brain sickness but no, I don't see a picture pop up and I doubt anyone else does either. That's not how it works.

e: Having read that article a bit I'm not even sure aphantasia exists. It's more likely just a question of semantics.

El Laucha posted:

Yesterday I found out that something I had described to a few people now has a name: aphantasia (http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054).

Basically I cant visualize anything graphically when I close my eyes (or with open eyes). Take a beach for example, if I tell you to image a carribean beach, you'll probably see a picture pop up in your head with white sand beaches, turquoise water, some palm trees, big bootied ladies chilling under the scorching sun, you get the idea. I dont.

I know what it looks like, but I dont see it in my head. I see the idea of the beach. I can't really explain it better, read the article.

e: here have a cat pic

anthonypants posted:

i think my favorite toothpastefordinner is probably this one

El Laucha posted:

Article about the aphantasia and hyperphantasia spectrum

El Laucha posted:

Uh, all of the people I've talked about this can picture stuff in their head. All I see if I close my eyes is darkness, and nothing ever materializes as an image. My gf is the exact opposite, if I tell her to picture a beach she is practically there.

quote:

In 2005, a 65-year-old retired building inspector paid a visit to the neurologist Adam Zeman at the University of Exeter Medical School. After a minor surgical procedure, the man — whom Dr. Zeman and his colleagues refer to as MX — suddenly realized he could no longer conjure images in his mind.

Dr. Zeman couldn’t find any description of such a condition in medical literature. But he found MX’s case intriguing. For decades, scientists had debated how the mind’s eye works, and how much we rely on it to store memories and to make plans for the future.

MX agreed to a series of examinations. He proved to have a good memory for a man of his age, and he performed well on problem-solving tests. His only unusual mental feature was an inability to see mental images.

Dr. Zeman and his colleagues then scanned MX’s brain as he performed certain tasks. First, MX looked at faces of famous people and named them. The scientists found that certain regions of his brain became active, the same ones that become active in other people who look at faces.

Then the scientists showed names to MX and asked him to picture their faces. In normal brains, some of those face-recognition regions again become active. In MX’s brain, none of them did.

El Laucha posted:

Actually there is, with brain scans.

Here is another article http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/science/aphantasia-minds-eye-blind.html?_r=0

It talks about a 65 year old dude who went for a heart surgery and after it he lost the ability to see stuff in his head. They scanned his brain and confirmed it.

BLT Clobbers posted:

I find it hard to animate my imagination.

BLT Clobbers posted:

I find it hard to animate my imagination.

Jerry Cotton posted:

You're really, really late with this one. But I'm sure there's room in the ultra-luxury ruler market as long as you're Japanese or German or make up a Japanesey or Germane brand name. Possibly Swiss will do it. Swedish is a niche because most stationary hipsters don't know what a Sweden is.

Sagebrush posted:

digital ruler for ipads

you put it on your ipad scren and rotate it and it creates a virtual constraint that snaps the pen to a line

also it's a little pebble shaped thing so you can't use it as a real ruler

prefect posted:

Jerry Cotton posted:

The problem here is there's absolutely no way to research this or in any way understand what is actually happening in someone else's mind when they say they "see" something in their mind because all you're getting is tainted by language. I would never describe visual (again, for lack of a better word) aspects of what I can imagine as "pictures" but I would also never describe them as "not pictures".

Salt Fish posted:

No, these are all terrible. I'm talking ULTRA luxury. I'm thinking like make it out of titanium, give it some holes or poo poo for weight reduction and it doesnt' have any markings like a das keyboard or fretless bass.

Salt Fish posted:

No, these are all terrible. I'm talking ULTRA luxury. I'm thinking like make it out of titanium, give it some holes or poo poo for weight reduction and it doesnt' have any markings like a das keyboard or fretless bass.

Jerry Cotton posted:

Yeah I'm about 100% certain this has all been done. I went through a lot of terrible hipster web stores when I was looking for a new desk tray.

anthonypants posted:

the best way i can describe this is that i very rarely have dreams, but when i do it feels like i dream in emotions and memories, but not in images. it's also really hard for me to reconstruct the faces of people just from memory, even when they're family members and i should be extremely familiar with their faces, but that isn't to say i have a problem recognizing familiar faces.

Salt Fish posted:

No, these are all terrible. I'm talking ULTRA luxury. I'm thinking like make it out of titanium, give it some holes or poo poo for weight reduction and it doesnt' have any markings like a das keyboard or fretless bass.

Salt Fish posted:

This one is much more expensive which speaks to the refinement and quality.

Jerry Cotton posted:

Sell it here: http://www.presentandcorrect.com/

Salt Fish posted:

Nice we should get lowtax this paper: http://www.presentandcorrect.com/collections/ephemera/products/german-bacon-paper-1970s

anthonypants posted:

the best way i can describe this is that i very rarely have dreams, but when i do it feels like i dream in emotions and memories, but not in images. it's also really hard for me to reconstruct the faces of people just from memory, even when they're family members and i should be extremely familiar with their faces, but that isn't to say i have a problem recognizing familiar faces.

Improbable Lobster posted:

Salt Fish posted:

No, these are all terrible. I'm talking ULTRA luxury. I'm thinking like make it out of titanium, give it some holes or poo poo for weight reduction and it doesnt' have any markings like a das keyboard or fretless bass.

spankmeister posted:

Where are you getting these?

El Laucha posted:

What I find interesting is that if I take a good dose of lsd/shrooms I get full blown closed/open eye visuals and I can see whatever the hell I want in my mind, full technicolor.