| I'm mildly aphantadic. I can see flashes of image, but can't hold them, and with little colour. I feel this has worsened with time. However, I can know where objects are in a room and am excellent at navigating a city in my mind. It's like the data is there, but I can't visualize it, if that makes sense. Music and sound recall is excellent. I have good memory of spoken words, and I can play songs in my head in what seems like full detail. I dream. I kept a dream journal for a while and had a lot of detail. Though, I think I had more visualization then. I can definitely still recall dreams with a lot of detail though. But it's like my waking thoughts: the images aren't vivid. Fiction is easy. I don't have visuals in the rest of my life, so I'm hardly missing them there. I think the same thing happens where I imagine a room with objects, but I just can't quite see it. But it's there. What is hard is poetry, most of it I simply can't get into. There are a few exceptions. I've liked some ancient greek stuff, and I liked Felix Dennis. But most is just dull for me. I'm not really into hiphop and it occurs to me this could be part of it.... |