This is more of me trying to understand how people imagine things, as I almost certainly have Aphantasia and didn’t realize until recently… If this is against community rules, please do let me know.

The original thought experiment was from the Aphantasia subreddit. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/g1e6bl/ball_on_a_table_visualization_experiment_2/

Thought experiment begins below.

Try this: Visualise (picture, imagine, whatever you want to call it) a ball on a table. Now imagine someone walks up to the table, and gives the ball a push. What happens to the ball?

Once you're done with the above, click to review the test questions:
  • What color was the ball?
  • What gender was the person that pushed the ball?
  • What did they look like?
  • What size is the ball? Like a marble, or a baseball, or a basketball, or something else?
  • What about the table, what shape was it? What is it made of?

And now the important question: Did you already know, or did you have to choose a color/gender/size, etc. after being asked these questions?

  • young_broccoli@fedia.io
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    2 months ago
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    Am I the only one who imagined things that they interact with frecuently?

    1. The ball is green and its the one I got for my cat.
    2. Female, she gently pushed it with one finger
    3. It was my mom (idk why)
    4. About the size of a lemon.
    5. I just Imagined my table. Medium sized, thick with fake wood vinyl or something. I even imagined the mess that is on it.

    I alredy knew, as I said, I imagined things I already know. And the ball bounced like 4 times before rolling out of the door.

    What does it mean? lol

    Edit: Added the spoiler thing. Quite interesting to read others replies.