Can you guys actually see things? Like I can pretty clearly imagine things but theres no physical things to see things. I can imagine folding a box in my mind or spinning it but I wouldn't say I can see the box

It varies based on context and how much thought I put into it. I might just think apples and not image them if its just a place holder but if Im thinking more about apples or like a scene in a book is engaging then the apple will be there in the visualization but how detailed it is is going to be based on its importance in whatever the thing is. I would have to be really trying to visualize the perfect apple to get a high detail one in my head. I used to read a lot and I feel like I visualized a lot more then but now that I am consuming media that just has the thing its like im not working out the muscle.

Follow up question.

Is it easier to imagine it with your eyes open or closed?

5, unfortunately 😕

5 :3

I think I'm a 4, but I could be 5 and coping. I can't decide whether I'm imagining an apple or imagining that I'm imagining an apple.

I think i might be 1 or 2 or middle of it. I can create a map in my head, then rotate the map. I used to be able to do it well but lately maybe because of old, i need to focus a bit more to do it.

But then i could be 3? Because the colour could be off.

i literally don't know.

Somewhere between 3 and 5? I don't know.

Picture a line diagram of an apple, annotated with average dimensions, weight, taste, smell, possible colours, patterns, and whatnot, all cross-referenced to lists of apple varieties, recipes, and other random information about apples.

Now remove the diagram, and leave only the information. No, not as text, or spoken words, just as raw information.

That's the one, whichever number it is.

(This doesn't mean I couldn't draw you an apple, mind, the necessary information is still all there — I mean, I can't, but because my hand eye coordination sucks, not because of the aphantasia; give me a vector drawing software I'm familiar with and I'd probably be able to draw you a pretty cromulent apple.)

I can do 1 but typically like a 3/4. My brain doesn’t generally consider color important unless it’s a key feature. Like if you ask me to rotate an object in my head for maintenance then its bare bones almost could consider it a wire mesh. But if it was a perfect sphere but with colored sections then I would see the colors because it’s the main way to orient it.

0 or 1

Both 1 and 5 at the same time. If dreams are VR, conjuring is like an 1/5 AR void thought.

Does hyperphantasia count as 1 or 0?

5. I can't dream either, but I used to be able to.

For me it's like seeing through a small frosted window my above my right eye, muted colors and blobs. I see some fuzzy words, max 3 letters in my upper left "field of view". Other than that all black and all images fade in a second or two.

1, but it's really really abstract and fuzzy.

Probably a 3.

Unless I have nightmares, then it gets hyperrealistic and off the scales like I can see the the mushroom cloud of the nuke going off.

Edit: To add to this, I hate reading books, its just not enjoyable for me, for the most part. I need visual media to understand. whats going on.

1 or less I think. My mind also populated scenery in addition to the apple (a walnut stained table it was on outdoors).

Depends!

If I haven't seen it before, then 5. I literally cannot picture something I haven't seen before.

Most things are a 4 if I'm lucky.

If I've seen it a lot of times, like more than 20 times, maybe a 2 or 3. If I've seen it 100+ times then probably a 2. No, I cannot deviate from what I literally saw, and it may not even be that detailed.

Probably 4. I technically have an imagination since I did pass that psy test where you interpret stories from image boards (according to my last psych eval), but my imagination is pretty weak

Probably 3 or 4. My mind's eye is blind! Lol. I see in words, not pictures, and I'm very sensitive as well but I don't truly get "visual beauty".

4.5 on a very good day

4-5 typically.

Probably somewhere between 3 and 4.

I would notice it the most during exams, where when faced with a question I'd be able to recall how the page with the lesson was laid out, only I'd see blurry squiggles instead of letters.