Okay, it’s not exactly that I can visualize movement. I don’t know how to explain it, it’s without visuals yet I can still imagine movement almost as Vivid as seeing it in real life. Also I can imagine Dynamics, something like a blueprint for map or a location from a bird’s eye view, except there are no physicals. Does anybody else experience this?
Yes! It feels a bit out of body or a bit woo-woo like I’m channeling a spirit, the universe, or angels. Or that I’m claircognizant. It’s very strange because, I am not attached to a religion and not sure if I even believe in God. And I’m not sure I believe in the clair’s. The more I let go of trying to accept or deny those things, the more experiences I have. And then I wonder if it matters whether I know if any of these things are real or not. I have also found that when something comes in, if I free write about it, I get even more information. I often call the knowing and how I hear a voice in my head my inner narrator.
It sounds like motor imagery, or the ability to imagine movement without actually performing the action with your body. Most people with visual aphantasia can still experience imagery in the other sense modalities (to varying degrees). Some will have multisensory aphantasia, or the absence of mental imagery in all senses. Fascinating how our inner experiences can be so different from one another, and we’re only just beginning to realize it!
Yes I “visualize” movement, without any pictures in my mind. Sometimes I describe to people close to me an example of the show The Flash. I can’t picture or visualize anything from the show, but if I think about the Flash running, I get a sense of movement in my head, and I almost feel like I can see him running with lightning out behind him. There’s still no images in my mind, and it isn’t a physical feeling either, but its the closest I get to a visual picture, when I think about movement, or something moving.
Yes! I can easily feel like I am physically located in a space that I am unable to visualize. I cannot see the ball on the table, but I feel the space around them somehow and the motion of the ball were the table to be tilted in different directions; I cannot see the horse but I can move around its body and consider it from all angles and each individual body part. I feel like this is experiencing the abstract conjugation in 3-4 dimensions rather than just 2. This is a spacial and positional sense of the objects over time instead of the images (still) or slideshow/movies that some people see (this was surprising to me when I started asking people if they saw an image and they would respond as if that were silly because they saw multiple images over time or related to different concepts adjacent to an object).
I have always had really good spatial awareness or spatial memory however you describe it. I just know that it will work. It’s like a warm feeling in my torso. The flip side applies as well. I know when things are “wrong”. I worked on some pretty complex stuff in the military and as a civilian. I had an uncanny ability to know what was wrong, obviously there was good training involved. It got to the point that none of my Marines would bet me what the problem was. Are you a logical, analytical thinker? I’m pretty sure that plays into it a lot. I described it as having a blank slate. I “think” like there is a card catalog, go to the subject, drill down and get that thing I need. Plug the things together and it either works or it fails.
