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[feotakahari]

You know that person who doesn't feel fear, so she can't recognize other people's fear? My mental image projector is broken, and the good thing about this is that I can read about disgusting shit without picturing it. The downside is that I don't really understand the images I put in people's heads when I start infodumping.

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[feotakahari]

Aphantasia isn’t quite it. I can make mental images; they just tend to be super blurry because I don’t spend a lot of time consciously looking at things. They look a lot like Monet’s haystack paintings, actually.

[lb_lee]

Those paintings are pretty. And still, that's super interesting. I tend to visualize less than I use proprioception or touch, so I can visualize, but generally don't.

--Rogan

[feotakahari]

Pretty, huh? This story struck me through to my core: http://ralafferty.com/2017/05/22/through-other-eyes/ With the way I process things without really seeing them, refining them down to facts, I was always afraid I was Cogsworth. It’s nice to think there’s value in my blurry little haystacks.