Aphantasia
Nov. 28th, 2018 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyI am really, really, really good at visualization and photographic memory and spatial relations. I actually loved those tests in school that asked which 3D item represented the 2D paper with fold markings shown, or which die was the same as the one shown but rotated. For the complete opposite reason she mentions in the second video that she has trouble with fiction novels, I take an inordinate amount of time reading, because I can't move past certain sentences until I've completed the image of the scene in my head first. It made listening to the Game of Thrones audiobooks really difficult, because George R.R. Martin loves him some detailed costumes and dinner tables. While I loved the added details, I wish they had been written into a compendium or something with footnotes, like Ref. 178 to know what Sansa's dress looked like today or Ref. 54,351 to know the detailed colors and patterns of the 5 layers of Tywin's battle dress.
