[htss2013]

I think I see detailed renderings, eg, of a person's face. But if I try to focus on the face and really examine its details I can't. It's like that experience of trying to read a book in a dream but when you go to read the lines, they're blurry.

I suspect when we see what appear to be detailed renderings in our imagination, we are really seeing a compressed "essence" of the thing and our brains trick us into thinking we could focus on the details if we wanted to, when we really can't. It's basically a conservation of energy thing.

[circuit10]

Or you make up the details on the fly as you focus in

[Nevermark]

Or fill in from memory, up to the detail you do remember.

Which may be a variable skill too? It’s clear all our minds are tuned differently.

A basic understanding of our individual wirings, uncovered by tests of these internal capabilities, would be enlightening to ourselves and for communicating with each other.