"Kind of makes the descriptive stuff pretty pointless in books." Yes! I sometimes admire the writing, but the words are wasted on me. I'm also a developer: I sometimes find it useful to draw things, but much prefer written specs. And as someone else wrote, it's frustrating when everyone assumes that everyone has a mind's eye. Visualization seems to be key for positive thinking, technique in sport, hypnosis, pleasure (?); memory, certainly. It's been great to hear from a few people with the same condition. I've come to think of it as a disability, and I now like to tell people I'm intellectually disabled (since it seems inconsistent with my career). As for the underlying processes, I think that mental images are "there", and the problem is right at the last step: I can't bring them to consciousness.
Great to meet you! Wow, no images in dreams -- that's really out there!
I think you'll find the material at the link I gave interesting.
I have all sorts of theories based on my own experience.
Yes, remembering actions is a way we cope.
I find myself moving my finger or foot or head or whatever to think of things like (drawing) circles.
My memory of distant past events is extremely weak compared to others': many fewer memories, all weak -- nothing vivid or even close.
I have trouble recognizing the same character in a movie.
I have very high verbal intelligence but am hopeless at visual tasks of course.
Anything mechanical defeats me.
Do these ring true for you?
This technique is useless for those like me who have no mind's eye.
(Yes, I experience mental images in dreams, but I can't even summon up a circle when awake.)
This affliction runs so much against the grain of modern theories of vision and thought (inter alia) that even the experts dispute its existence.
See http://www.imagery-imagination.com/non-im.htm and the references.
I've never met anyone else with the condition, but I should get out more.
I'm guessing it occurs more often among IT people, but who knows?
Any fellow Slashdotters with me on this?
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Wow! "the millionaire founder".
"Kind of makes the descriptive stuff pretty pointless in books." Yes! I sometimes admire the writing, but the words are wasted on me. I'm also a developer: I sometimes find it useful to draw things, but much prefer written specs. And as someone else wrote, it's frustrating when everyone assumes that everyone has a mind's eye. Visualization seems to be key for positive thinking, technique in sport, hypnosis, pleasure (?); memory, certainly. It's been great to hear from a few people with the same condition. I've come to think of it as a disability, and I now like to tell people I'm intellectually disabled (since it seems inconsistent with my career). As for the underlying processes, I think that mental images are "there", and the problem is right at the last step: I can't bring them to consciousness.
Great to meet you! Wow, no images in dreams -- that's really out there! I think you'll find the material at the link I gave interesting. I have all sorts of theories based on my own experience. Yes, remembering actions is a way we cope. I find myself moving my finger or foot or head or whatever to think of things like (drawing) circles. My memory of distant past events is extremely weak compared to others': many fewer memories, all weak -- nothing vivid or even close. I have trouble recognizing the same character in a movie. I have very high verbal intelligence but am hopeless at visual tasks of course. Anything mechanical defeats me. Do these ring true for you?
This technique is useless for those like me who have no mind's eye. (Yes, I experience mental images in dreams, but I can't even summon up a circle when awake.) This affliction runs so much against the grain of modern theories of vision and thought (inter alia) that even the experts dispute its existence. See http://www.imagery-imagination.com/non-im.htm and the references. I've never met anyone else with the condition, but I should get out more. I'm guessing it occurs more often among IT people, but who knows? Any fellow Slashdotters with me on this?