Can’t ‘picture’ things in your mind? You may have aphantasia and not even know it (You’re retarded) - Upgoat

Can’t ‘picture’ things in your mind? You may have aphantasia and not even know it (You’re retarded)
submitted by Spaceman84 to whatever 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 12:54:15 ago (+25/-0) (ktla.com)
https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/cant-picture-things-in-your-mind-you-may-have-aphantasia-and-not-even-know-it/

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[ - ] SirNiggsalot 8 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 13:22:28 ago (+8/-0)

Or you may be a nigger

[ + ] Nosferatjew

[ - ] Nosferatjew 6 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 14:36:11 ago (+6/-0)

(You're retarded)

OP included niggers.

[ + ] SirNiggsalot

[ - ] SirNiggsalot 0 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 19:18:52 ago (+0/-0)

Touche'

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 7 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 13:09:01 ago (+7/-0)

Applies to every flat tard.

[ - ] bobdole9 5 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 14:07:59 ago (+5/-0)

I want to see the percentage chance that the people who cannot form the images in their head are also without an inner dialog.

Sorry, you're a NPC.

[ - ] CHIRO 4 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 13:27:16 ago (+4/-0)

I've heard about this 'phenomenon' for several years now, and I always find myself thinking this is the psychological outcome of brain rot. It's not that people who claim this disability lack absolute capacities to visually represent qualities like colors and textures (etc.), it's that they are unpracticed and they lack the focus to do it. It's an attentional disorder, not a disability of the faculties for visualizing. These people have dopamine systems that are fucking fried. They lack patience, executive thinking and planning skills, and the ability focus. They're used to having all of their mental contents supplied to them via doomscrolling.

[ + ] Cantaloupe

[ - ] Cantaloupe 4 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 13:29:35 ago (+4/-0)

Yes, if kids watch TV their inner monologue and visualization ability atrophies.

[ - ] fritz_maurentod 2 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 15:02:32 ago (+2/-0)

This doesn't seem to be related to intelligence, as far as I know. Richard Feynman used to tell the story, that some of his colleague physicists could talk while counting seconds in their heads, while others couldn't.

It turned out that the ones who could, counted using mental images of the numbers flipping, while the ones who couldn't had an inner monologue counting. Both groups were highly intelligent people at the Manhattan project.

[ - ] Prairie 1 point 8 monthsAug 19, 2024 01:08:13 ago (+1/-0)

For people who claim they can do this, picture a car wheel in your mind and let's examine it. How many nuts does if have, and what angles are each rotated to? What's the shape of the hubcap? What kind of valve covers does it have (plastic, metal, spiky, TPMS)? Any cracks around the tire? How many cracks? Are they straight or angled? How aired up is it? What's the lighting like, is it bright light or diffuse light? Is the hubcap damaged or pristine? Are there any tire weights along the rim? Any branding or logos? How are the treads? What is the tread pattern? Is the pattern of a regular spacing or irregular? Did it change at all while examining it?

[ - ] Greasy 1 point 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 17:55:29 ago (+1/-0)

How vivid is your mind’s eye? If you were to try to picture an apple right now, can you see it? The shape, the color, the skin, the stem?

Damn it! The closest I can get is this painting, which of course is not the same thing at all.

[ - ] anothergoatinthewall 1 point 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 15:38:52 ago (+1/-0)

I've known I've had this since sometime in the early 1980's. I was into competitive target shooting and the coaches were always harping on visualization, "seeing" a match through in your head and I could never do it. One of them was ALWAYS saying "what happens when I say "don't think of a pink elephant? ~ you see one, don't you" and I was like, nope... I logically knew what he was talking about, could remember seeing them in cartoons, but I don't "see" images when I close my eyes. At best, I "see" snow, like what used to happen on TV at midnight when it went off the air, but usually it's just blackness, occasionally interrupted with something that resembles a pebble tossed into a still pond of water, Maybe with a muted color attached.

And trust me, I fucking Tried to make it work as that is a universal "truth" to highly performing people and I continued down the shooting path into the Olympic Team Trials for both Beijing and London. I've put in my 10,000 hours.

As for your theories... I was allowed an hour of TV a day growing up, except for the few years we didn't have one. I went through school with just under a 4.0 GPA (kinda fucked because I was in AP classes that weighted as a 5) and managed to retire at the age of 43 and still holding.

[ + ] Spaceman84

[ - ] Spaceman84 [op] 1 point 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 17:27:19 ago (+1/-0)

Ok retard

[ + ] DitchPig

[ - ] DitchPig 1 point 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 19:29:51 ago (+1/-0)

The ability to sit through government skool is not a measure of intelligence.

You are most likely a soulless human being, an NPC.

[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 1 point 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 19:46:46 ago (+1/-0)

Covering for your friend @mcnasty who literally has this . Is it because you have the same problem?

[ + ] DitchPig

[ - ] DitchPig 0 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 21:03:02 ago (+0/-0)

Cool story, ba'al Earther.

[ + ] taoV

[ - ] taoV 1 point 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 21:35:33 ago (+1/-0)

I tangentially knew a girl who couldn't visualize things, and instead translated what most people do as visual thinking into math, basically. Last I heard, it served her pretty well in life. It's not the end of the world if your brain compensates in other ways, it's just not likely. The vizualization thing is a good basic proxy for having an active mind.

[ + ] 2017Fallout

[ - ] 2017Fallout 0 points 8 monthsAug 19, 2024 14:52:40 ago (+0/-0)

Same - never could it and it really hasn't held me back professionally. Indeed as, most people can do it this suggests is normative. Maybe those that can't are gifted in other ways.

[ - ] GreenSaint 1 point 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 13:41:07 ago (+1/-0)

I don’t need any study or test to know I’m retarded Iv known that for a while

[ + ] Cantaloupe

[ - ] Cantaloupe 0 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 14:16:55 ago (+0/-0)*

You have to learn techniques to store information.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6BAceEBSPFU

Can you hit a baseball if you aren't looking? You have to recognize, retain, recall.

Organize, cluster, make it meaningful, and associate it.

And create goals, break that into small steps, track and complete them.

[ - ] deleted 1 point 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 13:17:19 ago (+1/-0)

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[ + ] Cantaloupe

[ - ] Cantaloupe 1 point 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 13:25:08 ago (+1/-0)*

Lol, hold an item in front of your face look at it, close your eyes you can still see it; the parts you noticed originally, with accuracy.

[ + ] bobdole9

[ - ] bobdole9 0 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 14:06:21 ago (+0/-0)

I say "think of an apple" and the other tries to form the item in their mind (round with bumps on the bottom, likely red or mostly red, little stem, little shine).

These simpletons apparently cannot make the mental image.

[ + ] Sector2

[ - ] Sector2 0 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 14:15:10 ago (+0/-0)

Your brain is probably good at constructing images and video with sensory input from your eyes. Switch over to internal input and create your own images and 'video'.

If you haven't been doing that, you might need to practice to develop skills.

[ + ] voatisajewishheaven

[ - ] voatisajewishheaven 0 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 15:10:49 ago (+0/-0)

If the words used aren't descriptive enough for you, you may be suffering from aphantasia.

[ + ] BloodyComet

[ - ] BloodyComet 1 point 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 19:50:29 ago (+1/-0)

I sort of have the opposite problem described here: each word I read/hear is extremely vivid to me, and as I'm listening/reading an image representing the words flashes in my mind. When the sentence ends, I'm left with a little "scene" in my head that was formed by the combination, tone, etc., of the statement. It can be overwhelming at times.

I wonder if something's wrong with me? I'm able to vividly imagine scenarios or recall a memory with great detail, especially when I'm falling asleep. This condition described in the article seems so bizarre to me.

[ + ] voatisajewishheaven

[ - ] voatisajewishheaven 0 points 8 monthsAug 20, 2024 23:59:46 ago (+0/-0)

You have autism.

[ + ] Spaceman84

[ - ] Spaceman84 [op] 0 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 17:41:34 ago (+0/-0)

Exactly what it sounds like, though not to imply a static two dimensional picture. It’s full on auditory and visual and can be manipulated however I choose. You’re telling me you have no concept of visualization? Sad.

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[ - ] deleted 0 points 8 monthsAug 19, 2024 00:59:19 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] 9000timesempty 0 points 8 monthsAug 19, 2024 01:10:10 ago (+0/-0)

I consider those with no internal monologue and no way to image in their head enemies. NPC trash.

[ - ] NoRefunds 0 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 20:41:26 ago (+0/-0)

I can picture commie kikes getting their heads exploded by a 308 in slomo

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 14:49:18 ago (+0/-0)

Something, something, niggers can’t envision the repercussions of their behavior, such as how 'dey finna looks' in dat orange jumpsuit. Sheeeiit!

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 0 points 8 monthsAug 18, 2024 14:41:40 ago (+0/-0)

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/cant-draw-mental-picture-aphantasia-causes-blind-spots-minds-eye

Fuck I can't draw for this. I probably couldn't draw that shitty bedroom coloring in this article.

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