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Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound (www.newyorker.com)

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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

This subject is always confusing for me and I'm not sure I'm not somewhere in between. I can "see images" but it's not like watching a movie screen for me. The images aren't... Crisp or clear or anything. And they move around (my brain only really fills in the bits and pieces I concentrate on), so parts of the image are fuzzy.

As a kid, I always lamented that images in my head wouldn't stay still long enough for me to draw them out.

I can also just close my eyes and wee plain blackness. So it feels like neither description is one I fit into.