I’m curious how that kind of visual/spatial memory interacts with the inability to visualize your imagination.
in my case i can’t. in fact i can’t imagine how others even do it. can you just walk through your old school inside your imagination…?
Yep. Some corners may be fuzzy like in a dream, but basically I can take a walk in my head through any place I know well. Virtual spaces too, I can walk through Lordran from Dark Souls 1 in my head too.
that’s extremely cool
So in your brain you know your old school exists as a “fact”, but you can’t remember what it looks like? Can you verbally describe what it looked like?
i can describe it with language, but i can’t ‘see’ anything. but for example i can see a picture of a classroom and explain how it’s different from the one i used to be in.
So you know your classroom had walls and desks. You can describe them with words, but can’t imagine even a fuzzy blurry image of what it looked like visually? Can you “see” any colors or textures or anything in your memory?
I know what it looks like. It just doesn’t look like a photo in my mind.
Yes. I have a good spatial thinking and memory. I know where I’ve seen my glasses last, I just can’t visualise it.
I delivered packages for the postal service one summer during studies. It took me two weeks to memorize all the streets of the town I had moved to two years prior.
I prefer to do my 3D modelling in OpenSCAD because 2D visualizations are harder to work with than math & code.
I “see” blurry shapes and muted colors sometimes, like a game with low quality hallucinated textures that fade quickly. If i think about it, it’s more like a sense of direction, distance, and scale. I feel turning left or zooming out for a better perspective.
