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How vividly can you see pictures and scenes inside your mind?

Like Temple Grandin, I think in pictures. Like @Wolfiedog, I thought everyone could do this. This was just the way you did it. I still find it difficult to imagine a mental life without pictures, though I do make use of tokens for abstract concepts.
Like @Ronald Zeeman, I visualise algorithmic/physical/engineering processes to understand, interpret, manipulate and design.
I remember in pictures. (I don’t remember street names, I remember what they look like.)
I remember faces, but rarely names.
I dream in full-colour, moving images, but I don’t remember the dialogue. (Though I may remember the emotional impact, and what I understood of the meaning of the words I heard.) I have had episodes of lucid dreaming while waking, where I can start to “steer” the dream.
 
AuAL said:
Like Temple Grandin, I think in pictures. Like @Wolfiedog, I thought everyone could do this. This was just the way you did it. I still find it difficult to imagine a mental life without pictures, though I do make use of tokens for abstract concepts.
Like @Ronald Zeeman, I visualise algorithmic/physical/engineering processes to understand, interpret, manipulate and design.
I remember in pictures. (I don’t remember street names, I remember what they look like.)
I remember faces, but rarely names.
I dream in full-colour, moving images, but I don’t remember the dialogue. (Though I may remember the emotional impact, and what I understood of the meaning of the words I heard.) I have had episodes of lucid dreaming while waking, where I can start to “steer” the dream.
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Can you think in terms of after images? Like if I imagine getting up I can see various frames of myself leaving my chair. This is conscious though not automatic. My normal thought process, generally speaking, is a mix of voices, images and emotions. Sometimes I don't see or hear anything but come to an answer
 
maleonolo said:
Can you think in terms of after images? Like if I imagine getting up I can see various frames of myself leaving my chair. This is conscious though not automatic. My normal thought process, generally speaking, is a mix of voices, images and emotions. Sometimes I don't see or hear anything but come to an answer
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No, my view of the world is that it is external. Some speak of the eyes as “the windows to the soul”. My eyes are windows I sit behind and look out of. Think of an Arquillian. I do not see myself out there.
 
maleonolo said:
Do you like to daydream?
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Yes, it's a survival skill of mine.

It is very hard to hold a static image in my mind. It is always turning, propelling, transitioning, as if on a display, showing the different angles and how it works. The image is always in motion, like a film. When I envision the same thing twice it rarely is exactly the same.
 
If I'm in twilight sleep in front of on TV my mind makes up its own pictures with the TV dialog, very strange when eyes open and I become aware,
 
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