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Confused about how people visualize and metaphors . Bit psychotic aswell wandering if someone can explain??
 
Lfgfgg said:
Confused about how people visualize and metaphors . Bit psychotic aswell wandering if someone can explain??
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Do you mean you are looking for an explanation of how people can visualize objects?

And also, looking for an explanation of how to understand metaphors?
 
So I used to think visualizing was a metaphor. When narratives discussed characters “counting sheep”, I thought they were not being literal, no way the character was actually visualizing sheep in their head.

Turns out I was wrong…people actually do see images in their mind. I don’t. I learned that this condition is called Aphantasia. It can also affect the other senses. For instance, I can’t hear music in my mind either.

Scientists think this might be related to a memory condition called Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM), which I also have.

aphantasia.com

Maybe You Have SDAM?

When discovering aphantasia, I was shocked at first. But this didn’t explain my poor memory. This made me delve deeper, and then someone said, "Maybe you have SDAM?"
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Yes, it seems autistic people have a tendency towards either hyperphantasia (extreme visualization) or aphantasia.

I'm a visual hyperphantasia, but I have a form of aphantasia, probably related to being deaf. I can experience sound via cochlear implant, although I don't wear the earpiece anymore. But there's only one sound I can recall in my head, the Super Mario World theme music of all things. Every other sound is just ... not there.
 
I just replied to the thread on Thought Overload, and as you can see there, I'm the extreme opposite. Extreme hyperphantasia. Like a photographic memory and visualization is mainly how I process.
Same with music and vocal recall.

It's a wonder I know which one is my own thought sounds, but I do.
My mind is just a very busy place. 🙃
 
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