I don't know if I understand what visualisation means
2 min readByMatthias Schuessler
Hello hello,
once in a while I get trapped in a question that I never really seam to be able to answer: Do I have Aphantasia?
It's not so much about that the answer itself would change anything, it is very much about the question if I even could find out 😅
Since when I first heard about it some years ago I somehow always get stuck with the terminology surrounding the topic. Doing the VVIQ opposes a challenge to me because I don't know what there is to expect, or what counts as visual image.
My struggle starts with this:
Does visual image mean there is an observable scenery or object I should be able to describe like I would when was actually in front of me? Or do I get the meaning of this wrong?
Sometimes I have more or less the feeling I would see something, but would never be able to really describe it. It's more like made up in my mind and I have to think about what it would look like. Objects or individuals do not have a context for me then. They are for themselves, no scenery, no stuff they do unless I am explicitly thinking about it.
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And now writing this I keep asking myself: Am I stupid? The whole thing feels like a loop to me where i come back to this once in a while and still don't know if what I experience is Aphantasia or that I just get the underlying task wrong 😄
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