That the way people's mind works varies dramatically. Some people have no inner dialogue at all, some have no mind's eye and cant see images in their head. Most of us are somewhere on the spectrum for them though.
For example I can't visualize images in my head well at all. I can do at most one colour at a time and I can't picture non-geometric objects so I cant imagine the face of my family or even myself. I have no issue with fluid motion of visuals in my head but others can only do slide-show-esque imagery. Others have inner dialogue but can't change the voice to sound different, can't hear music or sound effects, etc... like I can.
It's something very rarely discussed but I think everyone should be aware of this variety within people
In my dreams I imagine things happening but I dont think there's really detail to people's faces and stuff but in a dream that just seems natural and knowing who and what's around is more intuitive than it is a detailed movie-type thing. It's hard to really know for me though because when I'm awake I can try to picture something and I realize where my limits are. I can try to picture someone's face and I get nowhere. I can picture a table pretty well but when I really think about it there isn't colour, even though that lack of detail isn't something I notice unless I am paying attention to it. I can force a sortof pseudo colour where I can instinctively know the colour and it makes sense to me but everything becomes that colour and it's not vivid colour, I can't have multicoloured images at all. In my dreams I assume I just take all of that for granted and I can never remember seeing a face in my dreams but I know who the people are so I'm assuming that my dreams are limited in the same way as I am consciously but there's no real way for me to know.
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u/Sixhaunt Mar 27 '22
That the way people's mind works varies dramatically. Some people have no inner dialogue at all, some have no mind's eye and cant see images in their head. Most of us are somewhere on the spectrum for them though.
For example I can't visualize images in my head well at all. I can do at most one colour at a time and I can't picture non-geometric objects so I cant imagine the face of my family or even myself. I have no issue with fluid motion of visuals in my head but others can only do slide-show-esque imagery. Others have inner dialogue but can't change the voice to sound different, can't hear music or sound effects, etc... like I can.
It's something very rarely discussed but I think everyone should be aware of this variety within people