Re:Images in the Mind’s Eye Are Quick Sketches That Lack Sim...
by racingmars on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:46AM
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> What test is this? An online one?
Personally, I don't find the test particularly enlightening... it's a test to assess how vivid your mental visualizations are, but it does so by just asking how vivid your mental visualizations are. I can't tell how it's any different from an IQ test that just asks you "what do you think your IQ is?"
But I also believe I have aphantasia, so it's blindingly (hah...pun not intended) obvious to me that I don't visualize anything mentally. Any result of the test was a forgone conclusion for me. Maybe if you do visualize things to some degree it's helpful to tease out various aspects of the vividness of your visualizations. I don't know, it's not something I can relate to.
What test is this? An online one?
> Or that reading a book means literally seeing the action. WTH? I still don't get it. That can't be real.
I assure you it is real, and why I prefer reading fiction to watching the same story as a movie.
I find that with scifi especially, the book tends to be much more visually satisfying than the movie.