curious, brains
Dec. 5th, 2008 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxUtterly fascinated by the answers I'm getting to my previous post question, but in some cases at least, I think I phrased the question poorly in terms of what I actually wanted to know.
I don't mean the physical appearance of the inside of your eyelids (although, I note, that I _do_ also see; it's why I need as much darkness as possible to sleep), although those answers are surprisingly varied as well.
I mean... visualizing, imagination, things like that.
My imagination is not visual. The closest I get is motion (gestural communication? body language? Not really sure), and that's really only if my mind is wandering, I'm dreaming, or I'm parsing a figurative statement literally (as I nearly always do before catching the intended meaning).
Do you "see" the room around you if you're trying to navigate it with your eyes closed? Some other similar thing where you're seeing something with your eyes closed, but it is not the inside of your eyelids?
I note that I do sometimes see color/light flashes, when listening to techno and similar. But that's there with my eyes open in that case, too, it's just clearer with them closed.
I don't mean the physical appearance of the inside of your eyelids (although, I note, that I _do_ also see; it's why I need as much darkness as possible to sleep), although those answers are surprisingly varied as well.
I mean... visualizing, imagination, things like that.
My imagination is not visual. The closest I get is motion (gestural communication? body language? Not really sure), and that's really only if my mind is wandering, I'm dreaming, or I'm parsing a figurative statement literally (as I nearly always do before catching the intended meaning).
Do you "see" the room around you if you're trying to navigate it with your eyes closed? Some other similar thing where you're seeing something with your eyes closed, but it is not the inside of your eyelids?
I note that I do sometimes see color/light flashes, when listening to techno and similar. But that's there with my eyes open in that case, too, it's just clearer with them closed.
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Date: 2008-12-05 04:32 pm (UTC)Generally, my imagination is verbal without a lot of sensory connection. When there is sensory components (without specific intention, that is), it's most often smell and/or touch based.
As for navigating a room with my eyes closed, that's normally done by remembering the relative positions. I generally know where I am relative to the objects around me but I don't "see" them in my mind. Instead, I just seem to "tag" regions with an abstract of what space is occupied and what space is free, along with what is in those occupied spaces.
Hmm, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to explain it in words, as language is so tightly intertwined with visual metaphors. Suffice to say, I know where things are and where I am relative to them but it's purely spacial without any visual component at all.