I have them all the time, just wondering if there’s any sane people out there that have relatively normal thoughts on a day to day basis.
I have them all the time, just wondering if there’s any sane people out there that have relatively normal thoughts on a day to day basis.
I am sorry for the questions, this is really interesting.
What about maths? How do you do geometry? Do you have to have a drawing or can you manage without it? How do you understand geometry if you can’t see it’s objects?
i find this entirely fascinating because i’m the opposite. I write shit down because it’s too loud in my brain. like, right now left ear wants to listen to Hurricane from Hamilton, right ear wants to listen to Hurricane by Bob Dylan so I’m getting both of them and it’s kind of hard to think until that settles down.
I heard someone describe it as “bees in the brain”, and I felt so seen!
I have very good spatial awareness, but it’s non visual. I can navigate my way mentally through a spaxe and “feel” where the walls are without seeing them. I have a sense of how big something is compared to something else and where they are relative to each other in space, but all non visually.
And I can rotate objects in my mind and change my perspective around them, but all without any visual elements.
I can sense the mental cube, but I can’t see it. It has no colour, no texture etc. Imagine a sort of mental bat sonar?
Ok thanks for the reply. When you said you had aphantasia and no inner monologue I thought you were a philosiphical zombie. I guess I was wrong, but there is no way to know I suppose.
No p zombies here!