• edge [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Hallucinating Vividly

    I still don’t understand how y’all do that. And I’m very jealous.

    • blakeus12 [they/them, he/him]
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      2 months ago

      it's ezaggerated in thes post a lot, unfortunately.

      picture an apple in your head. that's as far as the 'hallucinations' go

    • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Some people just cant, I think my auditory memories are more vivid so i more hear the words. The visuals can be distracting some times (my brain is cooked)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

    • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      I don't read a lot of fiction, some, since I don't have visual imagination (unless I take small doses of DMT). It's just a list of information, which I could draw or dream about (a surprisingly high percent of animators and artists at firms like Pixar also report lack of visualization).

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      As others have noted, it’s not as common as one would think. I can do it and it helps to make the more boring aspects of my life much more interesting. It’s only a shame I’m a terrible artist and can only write things out narratively.