Everything Is Not Vine (DO I HAVE APHANTASIA?! SUPER NEAT DISCUSSION :O)
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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HOLY HECK, I was actually contacted by some researchers who study aphantasia (and apparently watch my stream), and they gave me a survey we can all take to help them gather more data about aphantasia! Check it out: www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.2/survey?s=ctsPm
I'm convinced my problems visualizing stuff is part of the reason why I'm so dang dumb about puzzles and trolls sometimes...
though I'm still not convinced everyone who says they can picture "6" for the star is not actually just lying 😂 CAN YOU REALLY DO THIS PEOPLE?
I imagined a red sun and when I opened my eyes and saw the pointed stars and felt embarrassed and judged despite no one else watching the video with me.
This is actually very interesting. Whenever there is a preview door in a level, I can't visualize how it's going to play out...
Yay Science! Yay research!
Thanks Carl for being awesome. Keep it going
Hi, I was actually imagining Rao from Superman the movie
Sometimes i can't sleep properly, because as soon as I close my eyes my brain just envisions the room in front of me as if i hadn't closed them in the first place. Imagine closing your eyes, but feeling like they are still open, you have the immediate urge to close them a second time.
Twice twice IRL.
Same. But i dont see my room colored, just the outlines and simple shapes. Only when focusing, i can really imagine my room from my perspective while turning my head. The computer monitor goes nuts tho, looks like everything ive seen on the screen for past week
Do you ever do that where your mind kinda envision yourself how you actually look like from another perspective, like how you look like in the room you are irl
@pricetagcloud same except I used that to play new super mario bros DS without looking
That´s actually a Type of mild Hypnagogia and is extremely helpful when trying to learn how to lucid dream. I myself can sleep way easier after I realised it doesn´t actually matter if your eyes are open or closed when falling asleep, don´t ever try to forcefully close your eyes ,just relax your eyes and ignore the urge to try and find out if your eyes are closed or not(if you try to find that out you´re full awake again). If your interested in it I strongly suggest looking into Lucid dreaming techniques, especially the WILD Technique in your case
I just see a box and then it gets all messy lmao
Dear Editor,
Never change
agreed. Editor is awesome, and now I feel bad for Carl...
Carl: Imagine a red star
Me: *imagines a detailed star like the sun*
Carl: *Pulls up an image of 5 point star shapes
Me: Oops
Yeah same, I was just imagining your average sun.jpg, but photoshopped red.
I cycled through geometric red star, red sun, Mao's hat, a Super Mario star but red, and finally stars as in the night sky but red (ie. like some of the planets).
I imagined a sun with a 5 pointed star on it "there. Covered all the bases"
I imagined one of those red Supergiant stars like Betelgeuse.
XD that was exatly how i felt too. im a bit sorry for Carl that he cant do this stuff
The first time you asked everyone to visualize a star, I was easily able to just "Yep that's a star and it's red, got 5 points, pretty cool lookin' if I say so myself"... But as you continued talking about the logic of forming things in your head, I started doubting whether or not I was actually seeing a star or just visualizing a memory of a star I had seen in the past. I have always just assumed that our mind's eye is piecing together visual memories into something new (or at least how I do it), as in when you said star, I visualized red stars I've seen in the past, either on kindergarten whiteboard decorations, or mario stars, or whatever. I can't just visualize the shape of a star in and of itself by saying, "Imagine a red star." Kinda weird.
My experience matches this. When I close my eyes I cant "SEE" it. But I can vividly understand the star. I cant "see" it but I can totally see it.
@@Hollidaydoc111112 yeah I think Carl's blind. Well his mind eye at least 😐
There's a lot that's weird about the human mind. As a writer, and TTRPGer who tends to run games more than playing them I usually visualize how I think something is going to go down. A lot of the time I end up listening to conversations in my own head even though I can't actually hear them it sort of feels like they're there. "Being too loud to hear yourself think" really is a valid response to something if you're able to listen to convos that are only in your head. It gets pretty meta sometimes too where I become self aware of what I'm doing, and I "hear" my own voice say "you're listening to yourself in your head, you really have gone mad."
Extronic
My experience as well! (Hope I got your name right, I hate that YT made it so now I can't just click on the OP and have it reply to your name as opposed to in general...then again I hate pretty much everything this latest update did...off subject, meh)
The brain is super weird, it's basically the same way we visualize memories, actual dreams, day dreams, and how it goes when reading a book.
There's no way it's the flower
*_IT IS THE FLOWER_*
Yeah, I knew it was the flower the whole damn time, but I knew that Larl was going to fall for that.
What flower? i dont remember any...
@@gatex33d74 Are you sure you watched the video? If you did, you would have remembered that.
@@ammondmilk5567 did YOU watched the video?
@@ammondmilk5567 14:13 u dumb dumb
If you watched the video, you would have remembered that
"Imagine a red star" -=imagines a red dwarf star=- ::red 5-point star appears:: well... close enough.
He *is* a scientist, so I was thinking about the sciencey space star, not the shape.
Same
did the exact same lmao
I imagined a bright red (with white highlights) super nova, lol
Same. Can you imagine a lot of faces rapidly?
Carl: "I wish troll levels would have a little more respect for me"
Also Carl: "I was literally to dumb too be trolled"
@@Daiseu UNFORGIVABLE!!!
Fire Blaze r/woooosh
@@dafurious6457 There's no wooosh, lol! I think you're mistaken.
@@creaketh Give up. He doesn't even know what that means.
@@Gwen_Hemoxia and he put 4 o's
Unforgivable
48:40 Carl got so pissed his audio got out of sync by a full sentence
I noticed that but I thought that it was my computer
23:10 / 29:35
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
an accurate quote lol
"Imagine a red star."
...
...
*communist music begins quietly in the background and begins increasing in volume as Mario looks at the screen in desperate horror and the coopers begin the revolution*
whoops that's not the like button
Koopas*
Mario starts distributing powerups because he is, in fact, a communist
*SAYOOO SHERMASHIII BENISWOOR RISVARMOOORWIIS*
I just started hearing the Soviet national anthem
"CP2 is CP1!"
Just think, CP1 was a stroke of genius that took a while to catch on in Mario Maker 1. Can you imagine what unholy terror awaits discovery in Mario Maker 2?
I can think of one so far: you'll never know what powerup, if any, you'll receive when you touch the checkpoint. That alone should send shivers through our spines. *Mario touches flag, suddenly starman* "OMG, what do I do? Do I run or is this a troll? Aaahhh!"
@@Nyah420 Checkpoint is horizontally affixed over a pit with a wiggler so the Star causes you to plummet to your death, of course.
Wait
Does this mean that color is
_A pigment of our imagination_
Edit: also, as a sidenote, I went red star>red sun>red son on the imagine thing, so I might just think in puns.
You are a wonderful human being and you should sit in a corner and think about what you’ve said.
nice
@@MaksKCS r/wooshunwooshwooosh ua-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/v-deo.html
@@nicholasluo890 😑
Cat Chara Neko Chara :)
It’s so nice finding other people who have aphantasia. Mainly because so few people believe me when I tell them I can’t visualize. So to find other people who can’t visualize is oddly comforting.
when 'BACK TO CP1' evolve to 'CP2 ACTUALLY CP1'.
Man, I can’t believe Carl was so skilled from 4:04 to 4:32! I definitely want to like the video and leave this comment about it!
Why do I have the uncontrollable urge to say "All hail the HynoCarl"???
You type very suspisously
Why do I feel as if Carl is all mighty. 😈😈
"Bend over and take it"
- Carl 2019
Lets get it to 69 bois
@@ghosttidragon6875 yeet
The one quote that fits in any conversation
*_I am watching the most skilled Mario maker streamer play flawlessly and am going to leave a like and a comment_*
Phase 1 has been completed, initiating Phase 2.
When you said "close your eyes, imagine a red star" i immediatly add 6 in my head, when you said you couldn't see it, it just disapeared from my head. And now i have no way to see it again. You just destroyed my visual imagination with 4 word. Wtf brain ??
Lmao
Whenever I try to imagine something in my minds eye, It's not like in my vision, it's more of a feeling of seeing something, like how you can't really see an individual photon, you can only get a feeling of seeing it, but it still feels like I'm seeing it.
Exactly, but for me, if I question if I'm really seeing it it's starts to fade away. and the more I want to see it the harder it becomes to visualize, until it becomes like how Carl sees things, where I can still understand the concept of what it looks like, but not see it unless I see it again for real and I trap it in my mind.
I know this is 6 months late but oH MY GOD SOMEONE PUT IT IN WORDS
THIS IS REALLY WEIRD TO SAY SAME TO, BUT SAME
I don't "see" the red star... but I can very well imagine it and manipulate it.
Anyway. Thats super interesting 👀
Yeah, I was looking for something like this in the comments, if I focus on my eyes I see absolutely nothing (black static like Carl said), but in my mind I can imagine and recreate things from memory.
Same for me
@@wansper9297 I'm pretty sure that's what he meant. The "Cartesian Plane" as it's called. If you were able to "Visually" see it, *not* on the Cartesian plane, then you'd be hallucinating. If you can "imagine" it visually, but not in your normal field of view, then it's on your Cartesian plane.
@@dementare wow, thats interesting😃 I mean I think I just barely understood what you just said but thats still pretty cool to think about how your brain I guess reproduces these thoughts🤯
Yeah, I can’t actually see any images, but for whatever reason, I’m really good at conceptualizing objects and manipulating them in 3-d space
Me: visualizing a larger bright red circular burning star with no disernable/consistant outline
Carl: which looks most like what you visualized.
Me: Carl Sagan expects me NOT to visualize a celestial star?
Lol i did the same thing but i was lime wat a real star or the shape or the word i ended up thinking a star shape inside was black but the line was red
I did that but still saw 6
I'm disappointed really
Man I can't believe Carl is such a skilled Mario Maker streamer - he might even be the MOST skilled. 10/10 flawless gamepleigh. Take my like and comment.
...Why do I feel like I'm forgetting something?
Man, spot on with your personal description of aphantasia; I've never really pieced together that I can start doing it when I'm about to fall asleep! Picturing faces is next to impossible as well, even those I know very well such as my own mother. In those few cases where I can, it's always a brief line-drawing (like edge detection spits out) of a *photograph* of them, and not actually a particular memory or amalgamation of memories.
The main thing I've noticed with my mental images is that while I can't, say, picture a square, but if I try and "rotate" it in 3D space like a cube, I can almost picture the 3D manipulation. I still can't see a cube, but I know which face is where. Probably because I've spent over a decade fiddling with 3D editing programs like Blender or CAD software.
Same here, I can visualize motion but not any static images
The aphantasia discussion was really interesting. When it comes to visualizing things in my mind's eye, there have actually been times where I was reading a book and I stopped seeing the pages and words altogether; I would just experience the events unfolding like a fully-voiced movie in front of me, occasionally popping back into reality when I had to think about how something looked.
When you said that we should think of a red star, i imagined a red giant. So none of the 6 possibilities fit shapewise, but i think i can say 6 for the colour.
Rotating, changing colour, making it bigger and smaller is very easy too. It may get less visible, down to 3/4 when rotating more complex things, down to 4/5 when changing colors, but when concentrating again, it will become very bright again. But i have my days where i can only get a 4 maximum.
I am good with faces, but terrible with names and dates.
And i totally suck when it comes to art and design
Same lol, can easily imagine mona lisa but cant draw literally anything
Damn, that's a perfect description of myself. I get parts of the image when trying to manipulate it but can focus to get the rest. I too am absolutely terrible with dates and names. I think i'm fairly good at imagining shapes and spacial things but when it comes to put things in order in time i just can't do it. I can't say which event came first from memory. The best i can do is arrange them spacially and from their order in space tell the right order
You described me so perfectly I'm actually frightened about you
This is very much me. Are you sure you're not me?
I don't know, it's not my turn to use our brain
"Imagine a red star"
*USSR intensifies*
Same.
“Picture a red star” Me: *pictures the red star powerup from galaxy in excruciating detail*
Holy shit. Do sudden flashbacks count as visualization?
Same. Did this first, then a realistic star like the sun but red
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who did this.
Same here, guys! Red star gang unite!
Viewbob anyone else get 1
You would not believe your eyes,
if ten million fireflies, lit up the world as I fell asleep.
APHANTASIA intensifies
dank
Dank
14:04 Look at this cover-up. He banned me (the creator) after the third block, and is hiding it from the public. #endmakerpersecution!
P.S. Great video Carl, can't wait to keep making troll levels for SMM2
I read your hashtag as end market speculation
CP2 is CP1 and the axe was literally right there in that pit.
That was the best troll I have ever seen in my life.
Edit: Thanks for 83 likes, I really appreciate it!
that's gotta be the best troll I've ever seen
And then the axe gets blocked off after you get back there 😂
that ending speech desync was actually triggering me
topic still rly interesting
Sorry about that!
@@CarlSagan42 it happens bro
still love ur content o/
"He will imagine things going inside something else" ~ Carl 2019
Me too Carl.... me too.
34:30 I Was Thinking Of The Star Power Up From Mario World But Red.
I used a similar tactic, but with the red star from Super Mario Galaxy!
@@xenowarrior_gd6912 me too! I thought of the Mario galaxy red star!!
I used the mario 64 stars
or power star
@@brandonaraya4132 Same
lmao when he first said "close your eyes and imagine a star" i immediately thought of a mario star with the eyes and everything
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Don’t worry Carl, we will still love you even if you are an elephant ❤️
He's not an elephant, he said he is an "alpha-nyan"
No he is an elephant
I suddenly feel an extreme urge to like this video made by a very competent SMM player.
Mario: *exists*
Cheep Cheep in a box: I'm about to end this man's entire career
Your editor needs to make a compilation of fish deaths
I'm a simple man in life.
A single "thwamp" or a "meeshroom" gets me going every time.
Well my day just got a whole lot better after seeing this little notification ❤️
31:40
_"Of all the ways to die, i'm sad"_
-Carl Sagan 2019
"Of all ways to die, I'm sad"
-Padme
In relation to the Aphantasia topic, I imagined a red Power Star. I couldn't imaging not being able to navigate without my memory, I get places by fumbling through different images embedded in my memory.
saaaaaame regarding the power star
This will probably get lost, or has already been said, but...
The reason you are so much better at visualizations right before you fall asleep is because you are starting to go into a dream state. Many lucid dreamers use this point as a stepping stone into a full lucid dream (myself included). I won't be the best to give concise details on this, I'm better at the practical applications than explaining it, but you can certainly find resources online.
Weeeeeeell one thing that helps is trying to imagine yourself doing things. Like walking, getting out of bed, swimming(don't recommend that one cause sometimes it throws you in an ocean instead of a pool), driving, etc...
Usually it helps suck you into the dream state with a bit of control
For the Aphasia stuff, when I picture things in my head it's kinda like holograms from sci-fi movies, there's an orientable shape that I can manipulate and parse in multiple dimensions, which I can also project into my actual vision and place in reality, but it's ... fuzzy? I guess is the best way to put it. Weirdly, I think there's some connection between being able to do this and a lack of oxygen. When I project stuff into reality it gets harder to breath and whenever I have an asthma attack my vision tends to color shift everything blue.
The real problem that comes with it, though, is that I don't always have control of things I envision. In goofier cases, like lucid dreaming, characters tend to get crazy long giraffe necks where their heads spiral off into space. IRL stuff tends to be pretty unpleasant hallucinations.
lol, you're hallucinating m8
I got so confused after recognizing the level you were playing, and then remembering the magic discussion from your potatochan romhack video
11 days left the longest 11 days..... (HYPE!!!!!!!)
HYPEEEEEE
hype + e*999999
@@CarlSagan42 recognised by the spagetti master himself 😍
*Crying in flightsim* (2020)
What is in 11 days?
HOLY HECK, I'm one of the researchers who contacted Carl and who was actually featured! Thank you very much, Carl! I love your streams!
For all interested: We also need people WITHOUT Aphantasia for a control group, so do not hesitate to participate!
Hey, is your test available for people under 18 ? Because I think that I have Aphantasia and I'd like to help you with your researches
Roh Man Same here. Really hope to be able to help in any shape or form!
@@merlinmonzel yeah but there's a question about our study level, so it could false the results
@@roman_doez Just refer to such questions in the open comment (at the end of the study), so we can fix your answers or - when necessary - exclude your file from the data analysis.
@@merlinmonzel okay then
God, that was one of the best editor moments I've seen in a long, long time. Bravo
I participated in the study in the description and it actually helped me realize a few things about me, the most surprising being that I actually imagine sounds (and music especially) really really well. Very cool!
The reason why my major was psychological is so that I could study people like you.
And understand what people that are born blind see
Really? That's so weird. I also have aphantasia and I've really never thought anything of it. It's just normal to me. The idea of you studying psychology for this specific topic is strange to me.
On a related note, if you have any questions about aphantasia fire away; i'd love to analyse it.
"Im so bad that im a god" Carl 2019.
Time for bed. A NEW CARL VIDEO? 3 a.m. sleep is fine.
I have watched so many of your videos Carl and for whatever reason UA-cam directed me to this one today. I am currently losing my mind. I had no idea that this was a thing. I’ve never been able to see anything in my head. When I was told to picture things in my head I can think about the idea of what I’m supposed to look at but I can’t actually see it. I am not going to be able to sleep now because I am actually super shocked that people can actually see things in their mind.
4:30 I suddenly got the urge to leave this comment... I'm not sure why...
Yeah I feel like he did something dumb but I'm not sure why
I suddenly feel compelled to comment and like while watching this super skilled Mario maker player...
Imagine a red star...
Me: Imagines a literal red star (like the sun kind of star).
Carl: shows chart
Me: Oh
Pohaku Mayo same
Fucking same
What if you wake up, and suddenly all of the colours you see are different (and you know they are different, that means you remember how things looked for you before that change)? You don't see blue anymore, you see yellow; red becomes brown; green becomes orange; such random switching.
How would you feel? And what if i tell you that there is a person for whom this is normal? Someone who sees exactly like this, but their whole life?
I don't think one would know if the colors switched because to them, brown would look like what they had previously perceived as red, so it would be red still conceptually. Thus the inner sensation of "perceiving red" would be imperceptible to one's perception because one's brown is now one's red, ad infinitum. It would only be noticeable if one had knowledge that it had changed; anyone trying to say that your perception of red is brown and theirs is red would be having a different experience of external reality than you. I hope this makes sense. I can try to elaborate if that doesn't make sense.
I have aphantasia too. I always thought that "seeing" things in your imagination was just a metaphor. I finally figured it out when I saw that exact same test with the red star!
I was one of the ones who imagined a fleshed out solar system with a red star. Planets and everything. Other stars in the background too. For imagining how far you can get out of your room. I can do my full morning routine, driving to work, other cars on the road, shape of the key I use to unlock the door, etc. And can alter the environment at will (swap cars for all semis or Ferraris for example). I know for that level of detail it's probably uncommon. I've always been really good at visualizing objects and transforming / moving them in my head. And altering the colors of walls/doors/objects I'm actively looking at. Always an interesting topic. Thanks for bringing it up!
Wow carl is ba--wait what? Since when is Carl an amazing Pro Mario Maker player?
Edit: wow Carl I also can't seem to imagine the star.
Holy crap Carl. Genuinely curious, did you ever take Organic Chem in college? They make you rotate molecules around in 3D space, bend a straight chain compound into a ring and stuff like that. Also, I find it endlessly fascinating and amusing that because you're usually the person who has answers to people's questions, especially when it comes to biology, when you do find something that's outside of your scope of reality, you think they're trolling you.
I'm only average when it comes to visualization, and it's the only reason I was able to pass Organic Chem since you have to do that a shit ton of times throughout the course. But it's always been within my scope of experience that people just do things better than I do. Immensely better than I do. Like those grandmasters that can visualize a chessboard and play blindfolded and still win. That completely boggles my mind. Anyway, it was really interesting to hear your perspective on this.
You were so skilled when you actually got the Flower on the first attempt, I couldn't believe it!
I've just recently leaned about aphantasia, and that I have it. I'm so glad that one of my favorite youtubers decided to cover it! (Plus, I think that this is one of the few times I've actually watched the discussion at the end of your videos)
I associate colors with numbers as well. 1 is red. 7 is green (lucky clovers). I like green more than red so 17 is green. 17 is my favorite number.
"Try visualizing a star"
Me: yeah sure
* Imagines this *: ⭐
Me: wait this is a trick?
* imagines actual real life space kind of star *
Me: what is it's not a trick?
F*** it
* imagines both *
Yep, I had the same "oh, wait, a red star. Like Antares. Okay." Then was thrown off when he was just talking about a simple star.
I don't know what's worse.
Carl uploading at 4 AM
Or me being awake at 4 AM
I think it's worse that we stayed up to watch it when we can just wait until a decent time to watch it
@@Piggly8w8 nah
@@realperson9951 good point
I usually go to bed at 6 AM because of my work life, but I also live in another timezone so its garbage hour uploads for me too usually...
See Carl was PHYSICALLY seeing the star. Not visualizing
"if there's a second one..."
top ten things said moments before disaster
Plot twist: *There was also a third one!*
I'm a game artist and during my studies a programmer friend of mine figured out he had aphantasia.. After this we went around doing tests like this with lots of people from the university and surprisingly most artists sucked at visualing stuff in their heads, while most game designers (the people working on creating game mechanics, balancing etc) were waaaay better at it. Our theory was that being really good at imagining stuff can actually stop people from becoming an artist, because it can be incredibly unfullfilling if you just start out and lack the mechanical skill to reproduce what you saw in your head :)
It's crazy you uploaded this as I'm watching the VOD of it on Twitch lol
My whole life I have seen them referred to as VODS, so I thought that it was a plural and also stood for “Video of da stream” 😂
Hey Carl, Notch tweeted out your video! You're internet famous!
I don't think anyone on the internet wants to be associated with Notch 😅😅
Love the video! And I probably should not be up
Same tho
It is 12:51 in Germany right now. The perfect time to watch the video :D
Dude, the science talk on this one is mind-blowing to me. I've always been able to like, close my eyes and have near perfect senses of whatever I'm thinking of. Like, I can perfectly visualize standing in a field, smell the grass, feel the wind, see the clouds in the sky, etc... The red star thing? I can imagine one, shift it into a 3D shape, pick it up, feel it's weight, spin it around.
Brains are crazy, man.
Without being aware of it, I imagined the red star made from two-state blocks from a future episode where someone made a level that joked about this. The meta has gone full circle.
me too at first tbh
I’m going to make hot dogs to eat while watching this video
My brain: 4 A.M, I should go to sleep.
My heart: Carl time :)
"Brave Boy"......came from ryus stream from like 3 years ago. He was the first brave boy....
I mean...I can think of a memorize of a star and make it red but I don't vividly see it at all when I close my eyes and try to see it all I see is the blackness of my eyelids and random after images.
it's weird, I can imagine it but not see it......
Me: I have Photoshop installed in my mind...
Adobe: That will be $500 and in 3 years you will no longer be able to access that version.
No wonder imagination disappears at a young age for most people
Hey Carl, you should play Baba is you.
I agree, he'd enjoy it a lot
11:00 old car horn be like:
Level-Creator: ,,How much spaghetti may I serve you today, good sir?''
Carl: ,,Yes.''
When she keeps talking and you have no idea what she’s talking about
38:36
I think it's called: "You have no imagination"
I think it's called: "becoming an adult"
Is it just me or is the end of the video (at around 45:00) off sync?
Rowan Strating I think it’s you. It’s synced with me
It's off for me, without a doubt
My red star looked more like 🌟
It was very shiny, sparkling, with beams of light going out in different directions, slowly fading in and out, growing and shrinking...
It's beautiful.
You're not alone Carl
I can't see shit when I try to visualize a red star in my head, mine looks like 2
Mine is like a 1 but I can still imagine the star
The troll with the POW at 11:50 is fantastic. Simple, elegant, clever, hard to predict/avoid, and very funny.
I visually imagine a red star that I have previously seen, but if I close my eyes and try to image a new red star I get a black and white full star, flashes of an outline, or a yellow full star.
Carl can do it with a red stiletto boot right before falling asleep..
Kinky :D
Oh now I know where I saw that second level before. Aurateur played that in a Super Expert run
When you did the aphantasia thing I thought you meant like an actual star, in the sky, not the shape of a star.....
The problem is that there's a large amount of stars that we know of.
1. 5 pointed star
2. Star on communist flag
3. Different Mario stars
4. A close up of our sun or another
5. The shiny dots in the night sky
And probably many more
When I was a kid I thought other kids playing pretend or having imaginary friends was that they were actually seeing them like a hallucination. I could only see what was actually in front of me. I'd have to close my eyes to visualize something that wasn't there.
When you first mentioned the red star, I closed my eyes and I feel like I could see a red star. I remember thinking I could see a red star but after you mentioned the stuff after it, I couldn't do it anymore.I could still imagine the star but not the colour anymore; it was just a shape.
Same here
"Imagine a red star"
*imagines a red giant*
Oh.. The other kind of star..
Anyone else want to see Carl make a Salty Sagan 2 in Smm2?
I can't see anything either with my eyes closed except blinking balls of light and garbled color flashes. :( i'm better at it with my eyes open tho.
Also, _i've heard_ that psychedelics help with it if you can't visualize.
..But i obviously couldn't know that personally because of their illegal status, and thus won't recommend them either.
Litespark you don’t actually see it you kinda imagine it
Your talk about aphantasia was going way over my head, until you mentioned having your best level ideas in bed. I'm the same way, and my experience with it has been super frustrating!
In waking life, I find I can very vividly conceptualize ideas, most effectively when I'm alone. But in higher pressure situations, such as trying to dictate the idea to somebody, or even just put the idea on a page, it all goes away. When I lay in bed, with pure solitude and minimal sensory distractions, the ideas come flooding back, and it's like a movie in my head.
I hate it, but it's fascinating!
I nerd out about how other people's brains work, so this is seriously cool to me. I didn't know where you were going with the red star thing and when you pulled up the chart with the six stars I got even more confused because I figured that six was just "the right answer", and it was so obviously the right answer to me. I haven't given much thought to other people's visualization skills. Thanks for teaching us about this c: