• 🐋 Color 🍁 ♀@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I'm a 1. I was today years old when I learned that there are people who can only visualize the outline of an apple, nothing at all, or anything other than a fully 3D rendered apple like in a computer generated image. To answer your question, no I don't!

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      I remember when I learned people weren't just being metaphorical when they talked about "picturing" something in their mind.

      Do you have an internal dialogue? Or is it all visual? Cuz my internal world is basically a lightly illustrated book, 95% dialogue and occasionally I can imagine a vague image.

      • 🐋 Color 🍁 ♀@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        Both internal dialogue which sounds the same as my spoken voice alongside images or videos, similar to when there's a montage being narrated in a movie is the best way I can explain it. This is all fascinating to me now! Do you dream very often?

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          I only seem to dream if I'm not sleeping well. I can pretty reliably make myself dream by having coffee before bed. Otherwise, nope, there's just a vague sense that time has passed when I wake up. If I do dream it's highly visual, though.

      • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 months ago

        I can create images, sounds, smells, etc the whole gaumut experience OF an apple in my mind. I almost always go for visual it made up in my mind. Just depends.

        Not the person you were asking, but seems like you're curious.

      • 0ops@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        For me when I'm daydreaming it's like watching a movie, my eyes might be open but I don't see shit, my brain's doing other things. Or when I'm visualizing something it's like free and organic AR. But yeah, no dialogue necessary, it's like a hallucination that I control.

    • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      right, coz there's no point if you can make better images in your head, yeah?

      you don't run into problems like awful actors, or they suddenly introduce a fetish you're not into

      is that about right?

  • DeadWorld@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I'm a 1 and yes I do. I can imagine something, but it's hard to concentrate on something super detailed and fully enjoy myself

  • Christian@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I'm looking through this thread and the concept behind the picture is 100x more fascinating to me than the actual question. Is the number your maximum capability?

    I'd estimate I go through the majority (90℅?) of each day at like a 4 bordering on 5, but at times I'll move up to 2. It's a pretty seamless transition, I don't really have an explanation for why it only happens every so often. It's not like it's exclusively reserved for moments where it's more useful.

    • AdNecrias@lemmy.pt
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      5 months ago

      I don't expect people who can vividly imagine to be doing it all the time, kinda interpreted this as a cap. Still 1-2 distinction seems odd to me. Is it cartoon to realistic?

  • Luna@lemdro.id
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    5 months ago

    TIL about aphantasia

    Anyways, I'm between 1 - 2, and I just wanted to say that just bc I can visualize things in my head doesn't mean I don't enjoy seeing things with my eyes. If I was good at drawing, I definitely would draw my OCs and such

    But no, I don't watch adult videos. I just don't really like nsfw. Maybe I'm asexual or smt, idk

  • booty [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    I'm 1, and no, not really. But that's more for ethical reasons.

  • bysmuth@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I can imagine an apple like in 1, maybe not with light reflections, but with colors and can rotate it around. But it takes a lot of concentration and effort and i'm never really sure if i'm just conceptualizing it.

    I'd like to ask a different question. If you imagine something disgusting (like biting into a rotten, moldy apple) do you feel disgust? I always found it super weird when people feel disgusted at hearing a description of something disgusting and involuntarily imagining it. Meanwhile i have to do a concious effort and even then doesn't evoke nearly the same response as seeing something real

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I was a 5 before my head injury, now I think I'm a 3 if I close my eye and really focus on it.

    But also? I've liked adult literature the entire time. "Visualization" is overrated.

    • meanmon13@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      TIL some people can visualize but it's in black & white or devoid of color all together.

      For me, I can visualize things from 2 up to entire scenes. I don't "see" it like with my eyes, it's like a dream, sometimes a vivid dream.

  • robotElder2 [he/him, it/its]
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    5 months ago

    Yes but not every time. I can get there just by fantasizing but sometimes it's nice not to think about it. I also like written erotica more than most men seem to and I think it's because of how vividly I can visualize it.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Written erotica often gets me going better than videos because many videos are annoying and a turn off.

  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    I probably have one, but only when imagining extremely dangerous situation. Having your brain flash you with a family members falling from the stairs while holding your niece each time they take her to the room above isn't a pleasant experience.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    I'm a 1, a woman if this weighs in your data collection, and the answer is, sometimes but not too often. It really depends on the mood.

    It's the same with movies really, I can fantasize about a million stories in my mind, heck I can be the protagonist but I still enjoy being unable to predict what's going to happen even on just purely a visual level, not that porn has very intricate plots.

    What puts me off most of the time is having to go through the search. I'm very picky and having to see the "wrong" type of content in order to find the "right" can really put me off or sometimes bore me.