#Microblog Monday 462: Visualization
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Yesterday, I wrote about something I found on Kottke. Today, I bring up something I found via John Green, who was writing about something on Kottke. That feels meta.
It’s about how your brain pictures things. I’m a 1. I’m beyond a 1. I can mentally conjure up how things smell or feel or taste. And see it play out like a movie in my head, or feel my mouth water, or breathe in deeper.
So it’s so interesting to think about someone experiencing 5. Maybe as interesting as he thinks experiencing a 1. Where do you fall on the scale?
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I’m also a 1. I’m a visual learner – I know I need to see words to learn them in new languages, even to understand how they’re pronounced, spelled, (and yes, that includes other alphabets) etc. And like you can imagine all my senses in my mind. Otherwise, how would I imagine anything? How would I know what I want to make for dinner? Or eat for lunch? Or where I want to go on my next holiday? The one thing I can’t imagine is not being able to do that.
Interesting. I would probably be a 1 for most things, perhaps a 2 for some, if I’m less familiar with them. I am NOT good at visualizing things in spatial terms, though. I remember doing an aptitude test in junior high school, where they showed a structure laid out flat (like a box), and you had to pick the picture that matched how it would look, folded up/assembled. I totally bombed on that (I was obviously not cut out to be an engineer or architect). But I was off the scale on anything related to language.
You mentioned a movie in your head. I often have a movie running through my head as well, envisioning different scenarios. And definitely when I’m reading a book!
(Sorry to be late with the #MM post. Juggling too many balls at the moment, including the ones I posted about…!)
I don’t know how–but the now 16-year-old diagnosed themselves with aphantasia and informed me about it when they were 9 or 10. I remember crying a lot about it then, because they are very into art, and I did think not being able to visualize things would make it more challenging for them.