Can you rotate an apple in your head? (by Shen)
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I do! I visualize when I dream. But I can't do it on command. This is how I realized I probably have aphantasia. I can never consciously visualize. I can think and conceptualize, but not 'see'.
That's interesting that your brain is capable of it but it just won't. It sounds like it could make a lot of things difficult for you. I spend a lot of my idle time "working" on different problems with projects I have going on and a lot of that involves "constructing" things in my mind. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't do that.
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when asked to imagine a circle, I just imagine the concept of a circle. It has no color, no texture, no substance.
Huh.
Is the association with the word circle? Like, what does the concept of a circle involve?
For me, "imagine a circle" is kind of a meaningless instruction until you follow it up with something
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I also have aphantasia. I only learnt about it a year or so ago. It was eye opening when I realised. People used to say "picture this or that" and I thought it was a figure of speech! Turns out there are people who can picture shit.
Waiiiiit. It's not just a figure of speech?!
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That's interesting that your brain is capable of it but it just won't. It sounds like it could make a lot of things difficult for you. I spend a lot of my idle time "working" on different problems with projects I have going on and a lot of that involves "constructing" things in my mind. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't do that.
I spend a lot of my idle time “working” on different problems with projects I have going on and a lot of that involves “constructing” things in my mind.
I do, too! I guess in a different way though. A lot of aphants like to compare it to a computer that does not have a screen or GUI. The computer is there - also the graphics card, the images, the data - but nothing visual appears in your mind's eye. I would say there are several things that are more difficult for me to do - but surprisingly people with aphantasia function just fine. Otherwise I would have known something is different with me way earlier.
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I do! I visualize when I dream. But I can't do it on command. This is how I realized I probably have aphantasia. I can never consciously visualize. I can think and conceptualize, but not 'see'.
I realized after reading about people with aphantasia that what I do is kind of a combination of visualization and conceptualization. If you ask me to imagine a cow, I'll tend to visualize the cow itself, but it doesn't come with a field for the cow to stand in. The cow is just in the concept of a place. That is, until I concentrate on visualizing details of the place, at which point I'll probably lose the visual of the cow. Like, it's still there, it's just become the concept of a cow.
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A talking apple? How novel.
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Waiiiiit. It's not just a figure of speech?!
welcome to the rabbit hole!
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I often find myself getting distracted from whatever I'm watching because my brain takes over and starts making up alternative scenarios.
I've noticed my brain lately has been doing this thing where I'm watching something cool and it goes, "hey, wouldn't it be cool if <exact thing I'm watching>?"
Well, yeah, but why are you activating the "I have a cool variant idea related to this" pathways and distracting me instead of just watching how this one plays out?
Edit: corrected "largely" to "lately"
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A talking apple? How novel.
Why do I feel annoyed by this picture?
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I can only rotate the apple in my head vertically
Try doing it diagonally with a wobble.
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apples are uniquely hard to rotate in your head because apples are bland and uninteresting and nobody's favorite fruit. try rotating a cow instead. it's free and the cops can't stop you
A cow is too complicated, I would rather rotate a banana. I'm actually doing that right now, just rotating a banana in my head.
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Why do I feel annoyed by this picture?
I am also annoyed by the POTUS.
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A cow is too complicated, I would rather rotate a banana. I'm actually doing that right now, just rotating a banana in my head.
And there's nothing we can do to stop you!
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I don't know how a cow looks like directly from the front though. How would you even imagine that??
How would you even imagine that??
I would imagine a cow, directly from the front. Or maybe starting with the side on, then slowly rotating so it's facing my minds eye.
Oh dear, it looks angry!
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Like, I think I can imagine an apple rotating, but it’s not like you actually see it the way you’d see an actual apple in front of your eyes, right?
That highly depends on your specific definition of that. But personally I can do things like think of a place I've been, and basically walk around like I'm controlling a video game character. "Seeing" the place as if I was there.
Same. I also like to study floorplans of places and "walk around", exploring it in my mind.
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apples are uniquely hard to rotate in your head because apples are bland and uninteresting and nobody's favorite fruit. try rotating a cow instead. it's free and the cops can't stop you
Same as the comic, you got to utilize the stem and the leaf, or maybe give it a worm or something
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I incidentally visualize a 3D object in my head complete with blender's UI. For some reason that helps
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I incidentally visualize a 3D object in my head complete with blender's UI. For some reason that helps
Now render it with cycles.
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Now render it with cycles.
Now I have a fever
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Now I have a fever
Now do a shiny apple, on a mirror.
