I have them all the time, just wondering if there’s any sane people out there that have relatively normal thoughts on a day to day basis.

  • galanthus@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I am sorry for the questions, this is really interesting.

    What about maths? How do you do geometry? Do you have to have a drawing or can you manage without it? How do you understand geometry if you can’t see it’s objects?

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 days ago

      I have very good spatial awareness, but it’s non visual. I can navigate my way mentally through a spaxe and “feel” where the walls are without seeing them. I have a sense of how big something is compared to something else and where they are relative to each other in space, but all non visually.

      And I can rotate objects in my mind and change my perspective around them, but all without any visual elements.

      I can sense the mental cube, but I can’t see it. It has no colour, no texture etc. Imagine a sort of mental bat sonar?

      • galanthus@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Ok thanks for the reply. When you said you had aphantasia and no inner monologue I thought you were a philosiphical zombie. I guess I was wrong, but there is no way to know I suppose.