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Joined 2 days agohttps://i.vgy.me/bAX7SS.png How is visualization manifested? 4 messages ──────────────── [ . . . ] <[ . . . ]@gmail.com> Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Hi, I'm looking for some clarification on the exact nature of visualization as I'm not sure what it's meant to be like. The Wikipedia article on aphantasia mentions activation of the visual cortex. So am I supposed to be generating an actual visual input that I feel like I can see with my eyes? When I visualize something, it's not really there on that literal visual level. I physically see the inside of my eyelids and the visualized image is not projected such that I feel like my eyes are actually seeing it. Instead it's somewhere else; sometimes it feels as if it's somewhere behind my eyes. Nonetheless, the image can be vivid in its own way, precise and consistent. I can rotate and manipulate it. I can move a light source around the object and "see" the shadow change, or place my point of quasi-view within a scene. This comes along with mental impressions of other sensory inputs that, similarly, are "vivid" but clearly not actually being sensed from the outside world. Is this what it's supposed to be? What point on the scale would reflect this in the visualization quiz? Thanks, [ . . . ] ──────────────── Zeman, Adam Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:35 AM To: [ . . . ] <[ . . . ]@gmail.com> …it sounds to me as if you are in the 3-4/5 territory…seeing imagery as if you were ‘really’ seeing is the exception, but for most of us visual imagery has a visual ‘feel’, which sounds to be the case for you… Best wishes, Adam ──────────────── [ . . . ] <[ . . . ]@gmail.com> Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 8:07 PM To: "Zeman, Adam" Thanks for the reply. To clarify, the "really seeing" exception is akin to a visual hallucination, or rather pseudohallucination? ──────────────── Zeman, Adam Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 11:08 AM To: [ . . . ] <[ . . . ]@gmail.com> Pseudo- mostly…