Apantasiac 3BLDers

[fes_77]

Kind of? It's almost like a faint picture, like it takes a lot of effort to visualize and then retrieve that visualization

im pretty sure that you dont, if you did have it you couldnt be able to viualize anything at all

 

[SpeedCubeLegend17]

im pretty sure that you dont, if you did have it you couldnt be able to viualize anything at all

I guess I probably don't, it's just too hard for me to visualize so I don't use it for BLD

 

[fes_77]

I guess I probably don't, it's just too hard for me to visualize so I don't use it for BLD

Impossible for me :c

 

[Curunír]

I can't imagine pictures at all even in my dreams

 

[ProStar]

We discussed this a bit in another thread:

POV the Power Of Visualization in cubing

I just had a kinda brilliant idea: Have you ever heard of the power of visualization? Basically, if you can visualize doing/having/being something, you are more likely to achieve that... According to lots of scientific/psychological studies this stuff works (to a degree... don't try to fly off...

www.speedsolving.com

 

[Jacck]

We discussed this a bit in another thread:

POV the Power Of Visualization in cubing

I just had a kinda brilliant idea: Have you ever heard of the power of visualization? Basically, if you can visualize doing/having/being something, you are more likely to achieve that... According to lots of scientific/psychological studies this stuff works (to a degree... don't try to fly off...

www.speedsolving.com

In this thread you can read that Mark Boyanowski has Aphantasia. He made videos, how he memorizes - for me it was very interesting. Here's his first

Spoiler: Memorize without visualizing part1

 

[abunickabhi]

I do not have aphantasia.

I can visualize well and good yo.

 

[Curunír]

I am not sure if aphantasia affects 3bld very much because my PB for 3bld is 38 seconds (m2/op) with a 12 second memo.

 

[abunickabhi]

I am not sure if aphantasia affects 3bld very much because my PB for 3bld is 38 seconds (m2/op) with a 12 second memo.

Sorry for the big bump as I felt this topic needs some clarification and a revisit.

Yeah Aphantasia is more crucial for long term memorization and the multi blind event.

I feel people preemptively judge themselves to have aphantasia,

Visualization is a slow and deliberate process and everyone can reach there with enough hours put into the long term memorization activity.

For example, I don't see the memory sports community discuss aphantasia too much and top athletes or memorizers do not have problem with visualizations.

 

[Deleted member 36445]

I don't think I have aphantasia, but my visual memory is kinda weird.

If someone says "apple" I don't imagine a particular color of apple. sometimes the word "A P P L E" appears written in my imagination or maybe the logo of the company Apple. it really depends.

but my memory is really vivid for stuff like architecture and spacial stuff generally.

I can "play" some videogames in my mind pretty accurately, like tony hawk pro skater 2, super mario world, sonic and Worms armageddon. I have the physics down, the soundtrack, the graphics, and the muscle memory. I can play it almost perfectly. I like to imagine playing those games when I can't sleep and it's calming, kinda terapeutic

Also for cities I lived and places I went too, I can walk around and see stuff around, it is "just there"

 

[Deleted member 36445]

this is a good test:

VVIQ Test: How Vivid Is Your Imagination? | Free Visual Imagery Quiz

Take the VVIQ — the world's most popular visual imagery test. Answer 16 questions to discover where you fall on the aphantasia-hyperphantasia spectrum. Free, 5 minutes, instant results.

aphantasia.com

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this was the worst part of the test:

the captcha was ridiculous and completely ironic :C

 

[ProStar]

Sorry for the big bump as I felt this topic needs some clarification and a revisit.

Yeah Aphantasia is more crucial for long term memorization and the multi blind event.

I feel people preemptively judge themselves to have aphantasia,

Visualization is a slow and deliberate process and everyone can reach there with enough hours put into the long term memorization activity.

For example, I don't see the memory sports community discuss aphantasia too much and top athletes or memorizers do not have problem with visualizations.

Incorrect. I can, unequivocally, not voluntarily conjure anything remotely resembling a visual picture within my mind. No matter what, when I close my eyes, there is naught but black (unless a light is on). I will sometimes dream but they are very vague and blurry, and I forget details immediately after waking up, plus dreams don’t count as voluntary. I’m unable to “re-enter” the dream or picture a certain part of the dream at all.

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Visualization is a slow and deliberate process and everyone can reach there with enough hours put into the long term memorization activity.

no if they have aphantasia lol

it's the same of saying everyone can see colors without enough practicing

 

[abunickabhi]

no if they have aphantasia lol

it's the same of saying everyone can see colors without enough practicing

Seeing colors and visualization is not the same thing.

I don't see a valid comparison here.

 

[CrazyCuber1213]

Seeing colors and visualization is not the same thing.

I don't see a valid comparison here.

I think they were making a comparison that saying a person with aphantasia can visualise with practice is like saying a colorblind person can see colors with practice.

 

[abunickabhi]

I think they were making a comparison that saying a person with aphantasia can visualise with practice is like saying a colorblind person can see colors with practice.

I believe diagnosing Aphantasia is much more complex

Than diagnosing someone with color blindness. I feel it is easier to transform the brain to start visualizing better, although I need to research more into this line of thought.

 

[Curunír]

Visualization is a slow and deliberate process and everyone can reach there with enough hours put into the long term memorization activity.

I've been trying my whole life and never even gotten a tiny bit of an image

 

[cuberswoop]

I believe diagnosing Aphantasia is much more complex

Than diagnosing someone with color blindness. I feel it is easier to transform the brain to start visualizing better, although I need to research more into this line of thought.

Dude I'm gonna be honest I barely know anything on the subject and even I know you have no clue what you're talking about

 

[cranberryjuice]

Seeing colors and visualization is not the same thing.

I don't see a valid comparison here.

It is possible for some people with aphantasia to train themselves to visualize things, but rare, and depends on the person.

 

[cranberryjuice]

I've been trying my whole life and never even gotten a tiny bit of an image

It's weird for me to dream, because it happens in the form of words, almost like they're scrolling across my empty mind, and then I'm reading them. Then I take those words and replace them with images or pictures of things I have seen. It almost becomes a slideshow, sometimes my brain even adds transitions like a Google slide!