Comment · Wed, December 12, 2012 · Ceretropic
I am unable to visualize. What do I do? Panicking inside.
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Hello Reddit,
So, I've realized something is wrong with me. If you ask me what's the color of the door to my house, I couldn't tell you, if you ask me what color is on top on the Pepsi logo, I couldn't tell you. If you ask me what a Lucky Strike package looks like if you aks me, I couldn't tell you.
I've asked several people I know, and they were all able to come up with visual images and describe these things. Why am I not able to? And are all of you like that? Any of you like me?
Is my brain structurally different? Do I use another modality for thinking than them? Does that explain my ridiculously bad visual memory, and perhaps memory in general?
It seems I am completely and utterly incapable of producing visual phenomena in my brain. Am I lacking some kind of substrate, or did I simply not spend enough time visualizing (and reading) when younger?
I need a cure. Are there people that think exclusively with words, and are successful? Or do I need to fix this somehow?
Please, reddit, help me out.
Thanks in advance.
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
That's really interesting. I am the exact opposite. I can visualize anything from the farm and cornfield I just saw in my dream earlier, to opening presents at my grandparent's on my 6th birthday. I also have a visual memory clip of being in the hospital after I was born, laying in the maternity ward looking up at the lights. I'm not sure if that's a real memory, or if it's a fabrication my brain has created due to the stories my family has told me. However, the visual itself is there in great detail. I've never really thought about what part of the brain controls that ability though.