I also knew the person pushing the ball was a male with black hair and a brown leather jacket. I knew what the ball would feel like in texture. It was tennis sized, but perfectly round and smooth. On the other hand when I first read the post, I could immediately say the ball was red. She also didn't know what gender the person pushing the ball was, it was just a person with no face. When I asked what colour the ball was, she didn't know, she visualised the ball without ever giving it a colour - I found that very interesting. I did this with a friend, and although she imagined a ball on the table it was very simple. Other people do not have aphantasia, but they visualise things in a more simple way so those details won't be present.įor example, the top post in this sub asks you to visualise a ball. Some people have a more vivid imagination than others, I for one have an incredibly vivid imagination and can imagine things down to the smallest details. We can imagine it in any background, or scene. We can imagine an apple completely in darkness.
#Visualize an apple full
With that being said, when visualising we mainly have full control. I'm not sure if aphantasia also affects hearing, and if it does sorry if that was a poor example but it's difficult to explain otherwise. Just like the image is "nowhere" and it's just a concept, but we can still see them. But although the words are "nowhere" you can still hear them. It's like asking "where are the words that you hear when you read a book?" They are nowhere. The image we visualise wouldn't be in the darkness. This is because with your eyes closed, your eyes stop seeing details completely, like any colours in front of you and different objects, and therefore you can shift more of your focus on the "minds eye" which can slightly enhance the image you are visualising (by giving it more detail). Now, although whether you keep your eyes open or closed doesn't matter too much in visualisation, I think it does have a very small effect. Not being able to hear your name isn't really something that happens in real life, but I feel like the "zoned out" thousand yard stare actors do when their character is thinking is a good representation of what it looks like when we visualise things. That usually implies that in that moment, the character is visualising something else in their mind, therefore their real senses (sight and hearing) are being mainly ignored by the brain. I'm sure watching movies/TV shows, you've probably seen scenes where a character conflicted with a problem is zoned out, often not moving their eyes and their name is sometimes called and they ignore it. I can still see through my eyes, but it's the same as seeing an object through the very corner of your eye, your mind kind of ignores it although you can still see it. When I visualise these images, my eyes kind of "zone out" and my brain vaguely neglects what the eyes are currently seeing, my vision shifts to a different form of seeing, not through the eyes but through a "minds eye". If I keep my eyes open, I can create any image I want in my head. Whether you keep your eyes open or closed, it doesn't really matter since the eyes don't have much to do with visualisation. Think about it like this, the act of visualisation is completely different from regular eye vision.
I'd also like to give some of my input on this.
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