How does it affect your ability to enjoy books? Or type of books you’d enjoy?

Do you tend to prefer more visual medium like video(movies, tv), or comic books?

  • ramble81@lemm.ee
    17·
    2 days ago

    For those of us who don’t know what it means: “is the inability to voluntarily visualize mental images”

    Basically if someone said “think of a nice round juicy red apple” people with the condition wouldn’t be able to imagine it in their mind.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I hadn’t followed this when apparently it became a topic of interest on Reddit.

      Apparently people sit on a spectrum, where they can envision less color and detail, where people with aphantasia cannot envision anything.

      Also, interestingly-enough, this is apparently not tied to the ability to envision things in dreams.

      https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/g69hc0/dreams_in_color/

      I dream very vividly, in full colour, but am a total aphant.

      That’s fascinating. I can envision things voluntarily, if perhaps not as vividly as in real life—it’s not on par with looking at a fully-detailed scene, but I can certainly do color. On the other hand, my dreams have always been on the border with being unable to visualize at all. Maybe there’s a hint of color, but everything is normally desaturated, and things are transient and vague.

      Huh.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Yep, can confirm, can’t imagine anything, but my dreams work well. They’re usually not very clear, but a few times I had trouble distinguishing dreams from real life.

    • rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com
      6·
      2 days ago

      I’m in my 40s and learned about this just a few years ago. Never affected my reading of different genres. I guess I didn’t know any different! It did help me understand why I don’t have the great memories of childhood things like my close-in-age sister does. I have always relied on her for details.