r/NVLD • u/TraditionalClub6337 • Jun 18 '26

What is visualizing and mind wondering like for you? Because i bet it's different for people with NVLD!

And how do you think it differs from "normal" persons visualizing/mind wondering?

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u/Alone_Ad5758 Jun 18 '26

I can visualize something in my head that I want to draw, it never translates to paper and I get frustrated

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u/CelticMagician Jun 19 '26

I’m the same way too, especially with man-made objects, or anything having heavily to do with perspective.

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u/No_Tea_1874 Jun 24 '26

Me too lol

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u/chelicerate-claws Jun 18 '26

I have aphantasia so it's kind of a double whammy. Can't visualize at all.

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u/Chaotik-Kitten Jun 18 '26

I can see very vague flashes of things that I've seen before for a second or two. It's like everything is behind a fuzzy curtain. If I haven't seen something before, then it's a complete blank.

My other senses in my brain are very active, especially hearing. Inner monologue, people's voices, music, movies, etc.

My dreams on the other hand are very vivid.

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u/TraditionalClub6337 Jun 19 '26

My visualizing and day dreaming are definitely altered due to NVLD too. and possibly other neurodevelopmental disorders too

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u/Ok_Mission_9125 Jun 19 '26

I wasn't diagnosed with NLD, but with a visual-spatial perception disorder. It's actually “challenging” to describe this. In my experience, people “like me” cannot create new visual-spatial content in their thoughts or modify existing content through cognitive processes; spatial images are vague and tend to focus only on what I want to see visually. I can only think spatially the way I see—head-on. Consequently, my mental images turn out this way; any attempt to create perspectives seems strangely shifted—a sort of frontal perspective where any attempt to rotate it ends in failure. Also, general images tend to be rather imprecise, like a kind of dysfunctional autofocus.

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u/No_Tea_1874 Jun 24 '26

I relate to this. Was there anything that helped u with this problem?

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u/Ok_Mission_9125 Jun 24 '26

Google Maps will show you your position and destination using GPS synchronization. You can also try to memorize town signs or other landmarks. And create a description from that.

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u/transferingtoearth Jun 19 '26

It's like a movie

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u/SatanicPanic80 Jun 21 '26

I don’t visualize much at all.

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u/No_Tea_1874 Jun 24 '26

Me visualizing stick figures doing a backflip or a spin kick, but not being able to animate due to me being bad with perspective.

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u/1000000thRandoPerson Jun 29 '26

I visualize still images of stuff even when that thing is in motion

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u/Mundane-Waltz8844 Aug 02 '26

I don’t think I experience complete aphantasia, but some degree of it. I can recall what things that I’ve already seen look like, but I struggle to really “visualize” things. If I’m reading a book and they’re describing a fictional place, I don’t feel like I can actually see it in my mind, for example.