I've convinced myself that we're not missing anything. every time I talk about it with people they'll ask questions like "well how do you know what apples look like??!!"

I can't explain how I know but I of course do know what apples look like. so what am I actually losing out on? it's all potatoes

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's all potatoes

Apples actually

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I'm probably a 2 on the OP's scale and I've come to believe that the only advantage it gives me is:

when i need to tell someone else where an object is in a space I can visualize. "If you're looking from the door its to your right, beside the coat rack"

otherwise it's probably easier to remember things for y'all since basically everything I think is in images or sounds. If i think of how to spell i word i am imagining an image of the word or imagining the word being written. PLUS I still have some face blindness so I can't picture people's eyes or most facial features

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

It's much more useful for imagining novel scenarios and objects. See the mathematician in this thread who finds picturing graphs helpful

[–] manuallybreathing@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

i'm maybe taking it for granted, but its not like I sit around visualising whatever I want, if you did need to know what something looked like you could always look it up anyway

I imagine dreaming could be very different? I tend to have visually very violent dreams, I wouldn't miss that, it's part of the reason I make an effort to avoid dreaming