I am deeply grateful for the opportunity that the Internet has given me to learn about so many things. But this has to be my favorite RU-vid channel. Thank you, David Eagleman, for bringing this series to the general population. I am in my upper 60s, somewhat isolated, and live well below the poverty line. But I love to learn and am always delighted and fascinated by your insights.
Highly interesting. Have so many more questions tho now...example: does one stay with those ways of preception life long or does it eb and flow like everything else about our forms do? Does the "phantasia" part of the word mean our senses are all illusory? Sooo many questions...love this!! Thank you!
I’m definitely hyperfantasia, in a synesthesia kind of way. Words trigger movies. Much of what I think is funny to myself is some scenario which plays out in my mind, and it is funny as it plays out like a Saturday night live skit. I noticed that other people don’t generally do that and think I’m silly or weird 😂❤ Now I have a word for it ❤
14:22 when describing the pixar animator embodying the horse and mimicking the movements before drawing it-it seems impossible to believe he has no visual imagination of the horse and that he is just processing technical knowledge of how horses move/gallop/whatever-not that i don't believe it; just that is quite difficult to believe… hahaha. wonder if having aphantasia soley builds on extrapolations of libraries (technical rigor) instead of extrapolations of imagination (fantastical rigor)-(assuming it does)-but both being highly creative. p.s. the face to face conversations are great, adds a great level of interest-from body language to the setting to just putting a face to a voice-but i also experience hyperphantasia so maybe that's part of it. (definitely helps with recall of the conversation and even recall of specific points in the conversation-puts a visual time stamp on the audio track). thanks for sharing!
When I read a good book I developed characters in a movie plays out in my mind and even though someone else reads the same book I've always been sure that the movie playing out in their mind wasn't the same however I had no idea that some people just didn't read words and pictures come to their mind.
I gave TOTAL aphantasia and complete alexathymia for yrs and yrs ive told people i feel nothing not excitment not goddy not sad not chills, nothing emotional at all! I feel completly dead. The worst part of aphantasia for me is not being able to remeber how people look, if i see my kids and turn around, i cant imagine their faces but i can totally find my kids in a crowed. Same with music i do get songs stuck in my head but its in my head voice never ever the original songs voice. I cant smell a lemon or taste a lemon or visualize a lemon or hear a lemon squeezing into a cup but i know what a lemon looks like and smells like at the time.
It would be interesting to know if people who cannot recognize of imagine faces if they were exposed to their mother’s faces as infants or had a trauma at that age.
Is it true that people don't see the world in 3D, but women see it in 2.5D and men in 2.7D? How can a person with hyperphantasia avoid becoming schizophrenic?
I'm having trouble understanding what a world without a minds eye, or visualization, would look like. Do random thoughts not trigger pictures in your mind? When the smell of food wafts on a breeze from a nearby restaurant, do their brains not see a tenderloin smothered in onions & mushrooms?
