How fascinating! Especially that your memories aren't visual but tactile or emotional. Gives a whole new dimension to what it means to have an experience or recall one. I'd be very curious what your experience of time feels like then? In the evening, are you unable to visualize what your morning looked like?
Really interesting. I don’t know if I am quite as extreme as you, but I also have trouble visualizing. Like if I close my eyes, I can’t visualize my wife’s face, even though I’ve seen her almost every day for a decade and don’t have any form of prosopagnosia.
Sometimes I can vaguely do colors, like imagining red with blue. But when I do visualize, it’s often more about 3D space or relationship than it is about crisp visuals.
As such, I often struggle to follow visual descriptors in books, and connect more with characters and feelings.
By profession, perhaps fittingly, I work visualizing data and information. Perhaps I’m trying to create digitally what I lack neurally!
Wow so interesting to hear the perspective of someone of the opposite end! I had this realization too a couple of years ago through a tweet and realized I have a super visual memory which is why I hate horror movies bc the images stay with me for years after. I liked what you said abt the spectrum too and wonder if having a more visual memory is also something you can develop through extensive picture logging...
Wow! As someone deeply visual I so appreciate hearing your perspective. I had never even heard the word before so thank you for writing this!
How fascinating! Especially that your memories aren't visual but tactile or emotional. Gives a whole new dimension to what it means to have an experience or recall one. I'd be very curious what your experience of time feels like then? In the evening, are you unable to visualize what your morning looked like?
Really interesting. I don’t know if I am quite as extreme as you, but I also have trouble visualizing. Like if I close my eyes, I can’t visualize my wife’s face, even though I’ve seen her almost every day for a decade and don’t have any form of prosopagnosia.
Sometimes I can vaguely do colors, like imagining red with blue. But when I do visualize, it’s often more about 3D space or relationship than it is about crisp visuals.
As such, I often struggle to follow visual descriptors in books, and connect more with characters and feelings.
By profession, perhaps fittingly, I work visualizing data and information. Perhaps I’m trying to create digitally what I lack neurally!
Wow so interesting to hear the perspective of someone of the opposite end! I had this realization too a couple of years ago through a tweet and realized I have a super visual memory which is why I hate horror movies bc the images stay with me for years after. I liked what you said abt the spectrum too and wonder if having a more visual memory is also something you can develop through extensive picture logging...