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Re:Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper by JshWright on Friday March 26, 2021 @05:22PM (#26597114)
Yeah, I am familiar with this technique, and have tried using it in the past (as my "spatial" memory is very good, despite a total lack of visual imagination), but I've never been successful.
Re:Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper by caddemon on Friday March 26, 2021 @06:10PM (#26597605)
Interesting, how do you experience spatial memories? Is it somehow encoded verbally, or via somatosensation? Or does it feel completely subconscious, like a Pavlovian reaction? Or something else?

I am bad at visualizing things from what I can subjectively tell, but as far as memory is concerned it's mainly the spatial memory tests where I perform poorly. So it's hard for me to imagine what recalling spatial memories is like, besides the assumption that people can probably visualize them.

Re:Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper by JshWright on Friday March 26, 2021 @06:17PM (#26597662)
It's kind of (but not exactly) like proprioception. Close your eyes and hold your hand out. Even without visualing (because we can't...), you know "where" it is. It feels a lot like that. I just have a good sense of where things are relative to me and each other.