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Re:Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind' by johnsimer on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:55PM (#19620649)
You've never had an earworm?? E.g. where a song is stuck in your head and you can't get it out?
Re:Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind' by chr1 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @11:22PM (#19621516)
I can hear/imagine a human voice singing, (similar to the way my internal voice 'talks' when thinking) but i usually can't imagine instruments, because they always end up sounding as if they are performed by a human voice.

Several times i did listen the sound of instruments as if real, but it happened only before falling into sleep, and just thinking about that would wake me up enough to bring the human voice back.

Re:Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind' by hallihax on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:06AM (#19623787)
Do you / have you ever played any instruments before? Maybe it's just case of associating something else with the sound the instrument makes - for example perhaps you need direct experience of producing say, a guitar sound, in order to associate the 'performance' of the act, with the actual sound it produces.
Re:Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind' by chr1 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:22PM (#19627907)
Interesting suggestion, I have tried to learn piano as a child, but only for a few months so didn't learn anything beyond several simple melodies.
Re:Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind' by ux-app on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @04:30AM (#19622833)
> a song is stuck in your head and you can't get it out?

never. although that sounds like a blessing :)

Re:Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind' by Baeocystin on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:02AM (#19622987)
As someone who is prone to earworms... I would be genuinely happy if I never had to experience them again. Not joking at all.
Re:Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind' by coldtea on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:58AM (#19623455)
For anyone that remembers late 80s/early 90s hits/earworms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFuGRBAKM2I