08-22-2017, 12:36 PM | #21 |
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
I would like to know if people with this condition fail to create visual details of people or places they've never seen.
I've never seen most posters here, but when I read their names, I will imagine some visual physical details they almost certainly do not possess. For example, I like Bruno, so she has blue eyes in my mind like my girlfriend or father. The odds are against that of course as most people globally have brown.
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08-22-2017, 02:10 PM | #22 | |
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I do give people voices sometimes (and read stuff in that voice)... especially if they are fond of quoting particular people or 'speak' with similar mannerisms. |
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08-22-2017, 05:15 PM | #23 |
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
I don't get an impression of what internet people "look" like; you all "look" like some text on a hideous goldenrod background to me :)
Seeing as I have problems with faces, it's not much of a surprise that I have problems visualizing fictional faces - as a unit. I can work up a description of a fictional face by considering the parts. I come up with the appearance of a character through a game of 20-questions kinds of things: "What colour is their skin? Their eyes? Their hair? Is their hair straight, curly, or kinky? What's the bridge of their nose like? What's their nares like?" (seriously, I have to break down the face that much). I'm pretty sure this is how I look at faces IRL; I look at peoples noses or mouth, not their "face"; the face is really too vague a thing for me. But that's probably even parts brain damage and autism spectrum stuff coming together to make faces awkward.
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08-22-2017, 05:57 PM | #24 |
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
I tend to associate people with their avatars when possible, so I tend to imagine you as a youthful minotaur.
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08-22-2017, 06:20 PM | #25 |
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
I don't even imagine appearances for characters in fiction who have detailed physical descriptions. Or for my own PCs. Never mind real people on the internet.
I certainly make the same association, sir mongoose.
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08-22-2017, 06:56 PM | #26 |
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
Yes, I can say the same too, for purposes of quick recognition. However usually I don't attribute to the person traits from such a picture, unless it's portraying something on it matching with what I perceive as his personality.
Because in absence of images, when there's no user profile picture (I really think the term avatar for that is awful), then I draw on memories of the personality I've been perceiving by means of what they wrote in the posts I read. However I think this second case isn't much related to the current discussion here.
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08-22-2017, 07:17 PM | #27 | |
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The difference depends on how annoying or impairing it's for you in daily life. Perhaps some skills, like drawing (right now I can't think of others) without having at view a model of reference, shouldn't be available, and wouldn't have any default value in this case. Or maybe one of, I don't know, 3-4 maximum.
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08-22-2017, 07:21 PM | #28 |
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Re: No Visual Memory / Can't Visualize / "Blind Inside"
I'm actually pretty good at drawing if I have enough time and present models. Even though I often combine such images into something not present, like six limbed amphibians, or my school picture head on the body of one of my He-Men figures. Don't judge young me. lol
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08-22-2017, 08:56 PM | #29 | |
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Adding to my question above: JCurwen3, do you dream sometimes while sleeping? There are internal images in dreams without any help of external models. But if it were a visual memory issue (inability to summon images from remembrances), I wonder how it'd be possible to answer a question like this! Unless there's some kind of remaining trace.
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08-23-2017, 01:07 AM | #30 | |
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