I really have no idea how to imagine thinking without vivid mental images. It actually kind of freaks me out to imagine not visually imagining it. The fact that lots of people can and do function just fine without that bewilders me.
Are you saying that you can literally watch a cartoon hallucination zipping around in front of you if you feel like it? Or do your eyes see nothing and you're just consciously visualizing it?
I really have no idea how to imagine thinking without vivid mental images. It actually kind of freaks me out to imagine not visually imagining it. The fact that lots of people can and do function just fine without that bewilders me.
Some people don't have internal monologues either
That weirds me out too, but it doesn't seem to bother them much.
Bother them? If I could turn mine off it would be sweet, sweet bliss. (TBH, this is one very big reason dissociative drugs are so appealing to me).
Are you saying that you can literally watch a cartoon hallucination zipping around in front of you if you feel like it? Or do your eyes see nothing and you're just consciously visualizing it?
It's somehow both.
I can "see" the cartoon visualization while also seeing what's actually in front of me. They don't quite overlap as much as exist at the same time.
If I close my eyes, it can sometimes be easier to focus on the aforementioned cartoon hallucination.
Yeah I think if you imagined a big black circle and someone held up 3 fingers behind it, you'd be able to see the fingers right?
It's just an abstract level of visualization.
I think some people hear "see" and think it means you can just conjure illusions and watch them happen