For me it was this video from Anthony Padilla, I left it playing when I went to sleep, I didn't sleep that night. First thing in the morning I called a family member "can you really.. umm... like... see things in your mind?". Before that I had no idea people can really visualize.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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I have kinda always known that I don't really work the same way as some others do, but the more recent discussions on just how well some people can visualize things led to me reevaluating myself.
I think a pretty big tipper for me was in how different my dreams are in comparison to my waking ability to visualize. Total night and day difference. When asleep (or just after waking) I have vivid and lucid dreams. While awake I can't conjure a stick figure or a simple apple.
I think I stumbled upon the term somewhere online at some point, and realized it described me. It just made a bunch of stuff click into place. I look back on times now where I was able to visualize colours and patterns in my head while high listening to music and thought I was hallucinating a lot differently now lol. Turns out that's just what most people can normally do
That little image with the apple.
I thought people meant it figuratively when they said they could visualize something. That image showed me most definitely not.
Yes, so many figures of speech like "life flashing in front of your eyes". Heck, even "can you picture it" or "can't unsee".
When I realized, they were not completely metaphorical, my mind was blown π€―
Oh God, I didn't even think about βcan't unsee" being literal. That was a mind fuck for me just now