Comment visualiser les choses

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Bonjour, je m’appelle Willow, j’ai une trentaine d’années et hier, je suis tombée sur un article concernant l’aphantasie, dont je n’avais jamais entendu parler auparavant. Comme tout ce qui est écrit dans l’article me semble assez familier, j’ai décidé de faire le test sur ce site ici.

Mais je ne comprends pas, qu’il s’agisse d’imaginer des personnes ou des paysages, je sais à quoi tout ressemble, mais je ne sais pas à quoi m’attendre, ou mieux, quelle est la manière “normale” de visualiser ces choses.

Comme je l’ai dit, je sais à quoi ressemblent les gens, je peux parfaitement décrire en détail le supermarché où je fais toujours mes courses, mais aucune image n’apparaît.

Je me demande maintenant comment c’est censé se passer. Les gens sont-ils vraiment capables de fermer les yeux et de voir les gens comme s’ils regardaient une photo ? Comme de vraiment “voir” le visage et tout le reste ?
Ou est-ce que, comme moi, ils savent à quoi ils ressemblent comme s’ils regardaient une photo ?

Je n’arrive pas à imaginer qu’il y ait des gens qui puissent voir les yeux fermés…

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They can. My boyfriend is an artist and can literally paint from memory – just like painting with a very detailed photo in front of him. It sounds incredible to me but this is the ‘normal’ way of being apparently. I posted a question about it on facebook some time ago and … it was just me that couldn’t!

I am also confused about that.

any responses?

It’s a fair question, Willow!

How can we possibly know to what extent our mental pictures are accurate, detailed, vivid if we cannot compare them to someone else’s experience?

VVIQ asks you to compare the image in your head with how you know it looks in real life to reconcile this somewhat. In other words, how do the images in your mind’s eye compare to seeing with your actual eyes? Or is it, that you see no mental pictures at all and only “know” what something looks like in your mind?

We elaborate more on how to evaluate your mind’s eye and some of the limitations here.

I’m on the same page as you. I just found out that people actually see things and am shocked. I almost don’t believe it. I consider myself as having a very vivid imagination, I can “see” things and imagine whole worlds, but I do this with my eyes open. If I close my eyes, all I ever see is black (and the remininance of shapes/light from the room I’m in). I cannot imagine that people actually see a thing when they close their eyes. I am fascinated by this.

I look forward to hearing people’s accounts of what/how they see 🙂

I’m on the same page as you. I just found out that people actually see things and am shocked. I almost don’t believe it. I consider myself as having a very vivid imagination, I can “see” things and imagine whole worlds, but I do this with my eyes open. If I close my eyes, all I ever see is black (and the remininance of shapes/light from the room I’m in). I cannot imagine that people actually see a thing when they close their eyes. I am fascinated by this.

I look forward to hearing people’s accounts of what/how they see 🙂

When someone im talking to first learns that I have Aphantasia they get this look on their face like I am some weird magical being, and I always call them on it and say,

“you’re not seriously sitting there looking at me like I’m ‘a witch’ when YOU ARE THE ONES WHO SEE THINGS THAT AREN’T REALLY THERE!”

So yeah, how are we the weird ones when they’re the ones ‘seeing things’ 😆