curious, brains

[wispfox]

Utterly 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.

Comments

Welcome to my brain.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I think I'm quite strongly visual. And yes, I remember things in terms of what they look like. If I think about the garden out front, the thought is like a little picture of the garden, not in front of my eyes though, it doesn't interfere with what I'm looking at, it's like it's got its own internal screen, except I can't tell you where that screen is, just that that's where I see things I'm thinking about.

It's fairly important to me - I design clothes and crafty things and when I look at a bolt of fabric in the shop or some yarn, or whatever, I'm picturing what the thing I want to make will look like on that internal screen (also some feeling/tactile aspects which are hard to explain if you don't muck around with fabrics).

When I remember sounds/music, I do it the same kind of way, play it inside my brain. The annoying part is that I don't have a fast forward, so if I hear a snippet of a song and I want to remember the title, sometimes I have to continue playing it in my head until I get to the chorus.

Very, very rarely, I hear or see something inside my head I actually confuse with outside reality. Mostly, the remembering/imagining is both like seeing or hearing, but also obviously different.

Mmm... brains...

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

That's just really cool. I have some small piece of the ability to hear music in my head that you describe, but by no means the visual aspect of things.

Thank you for sharing!