Do you still recognise people even if you can’t picture them without seeing them? I’m assuming you definitely know your parents lol, but if you were to see the same cashier multiple times or something would you realise or do you just forget what they looked like?

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah the cashier thing, I don't think I recognise seeing the same person a few times but like the coffee shop down the road I recognise them there.

One funny encounter I had was a few years ago I had just started a new job and on the second day the boss had keys I needed the following day, we both happened to live near each other and he said to met him at a local shop's carpark and exchange the keys, he beat me there so I had to look for him and realised I hadn't memorise any of his features, so I'm there walking around the carpark just looking in cars for a person sitting in a car and saw a guy but he didn't make any movement so thought it wasn't him so kept walking then he gets out and calls out to me. I could tell he thought it was weird I had stared at him for a few seconds and then walked away...

[–] Evilsmiley@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

For me anyway, not the person you asked but lemmy needs comments to feed it.

But for me, i don't visually picture someone's face off I'm remembering it, but i do remember what someone looks like. So when I meet someone I recognise, it just clicks. I could describe someone i know from memory but maybe not with a ton of detail.

I remember what things look like, could remember details of a painting etc etc, it's just when i think of things, theres no visual acompaniment.

Idk its hard to explain now that I'm trying to put it in words