My father is an imager. My mother raised me but I did more things growing up with my father.

My mother wouldn’t have done any mind image imagine stuff with me. I wouldn’t have gotten any practice. So that could definitely contribute.

Like apparently an imaginary friend is an imager thing?

I played a ton with Lego stuff growing up. I can imagine building Lego sets in my mind, not with images but with What,Where,Why,How,Etc… I enjoyed the instruction manual because in a way it tells a story. But once I built one I could replay building it in my own way with more details.

Then video games probably fried my brain

I was never put in a situation to really need vivid images growing up. I always had movies and video games. I’ve never liked reading, I’m not getting the head movie, it’s just facts I have to remember. A good story is a good story though and there are some I have enjoyed. Flowers for Alegernon is a great read, it’s in an epistolary style.

I never needed an imaginary friend. But maybe if I did I would have developed the skill?

It’s an interesting thing to think about.

My mother and brother both have aphantasia and I never remember seeing any images in my head ever. Counting sheep never made sense to me. So I think mine is more hereditary.

“Out of sight, out of mind” really does ring true for people with aphantasia in my experience.

But from what I have heard and seen people with aphantasia are very good at memorizing lists.

It’s not really a how good of your memory it is but how you choose to store it. Are you going to pull up an image to remember, or are you just going to “know” it. Some things easier with images, some with just facts.

Like how many arches are on the Eiffel tower. Someone with really good image memory might pull up the image in their mind and count. Someone like me would have to know it as a fact and since “How many arches are on the Eiffel tower” isn’t common knowledge or I haven’t heard/memorized it then knowing it as a fact isn’t possible.

But images also tend to be wrong so you can’t always trust them.

In an experiment where people had to memorize a table set up. People with aphantasia got a total of less items on the table but placement and everything was more true. Someone with a true “photographic” memory could get everything right.

How would you attempt to store these three things in your memory?

If someone said:

1. Go to grocery store and pick up half gallon orange juice
2. Go to auto parts store pick up gallon motor oil
3. Do laundry when you get home

I’d remember “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry”

I can infer where to get the stuff for example, but aslong as I remember certain details I could remember what I needed to do.

As long as I can repeat “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry” in my inner voice I won’t forget what I need to do.

There will be times where I will forget and then have to think. There was something I needed at the auto store…oh oil. Because I don’t break everything down into a perfect list like “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry”.

I feel like it’s easier for me to remember if the tasks are related or if the things are in one task. But that is probably for everyone

Not really. For example I cannot pull up an image of the gieco gecko in my mind. I think gieco gecko car insurance, I would have to think deeper to think more. Like does my car need insurance, would the gecko save me money, etc… And I’m just not going to do that for a commercial I’m actively trying to avoid.

Commercials are more for imagers. The ones that need to see the cheeseburger before they buy it. The ones where a gecko seems like a great thing to do business with.

I’m not immune to their propaganda though.

Sounds like you might have aphantasia or a very limited visual memory.

Definitely contributes to your decision making processes

Most people can visualize well so you aren’t the norm

Very vague. I would have said my “images” were very vague before I learned I had it. It’s almost like I can see them but they just aren’t there.

Like when you picture an apple does it have color?

Do you read a book and imagine it playing out in your mind? Do you get disappointed when watching a movie based on a book you read that the visuals do not match what you had imagined?

Do you get random imagines popping into your mind that you don’t control?

Do you have aphantasia?

I have it and assume people get an image of Wicked Wings from KFC that pops into their head and now that they “see” it they crave it. Just like seeing it in a commercial.

And that’s just as a percentage of registered voters

The 33.4% is out of every 18+ adult in America that has registered or could register to vote.

174 million are registered

57 million are unregistered

231 million total.

77.3/231=33.4%

340.1 million Americans in 2024

77.3/340.1=22.7%

So 22.7% of total Americans voted for trump. But that’s counting babies, children, and young adults.

Also trump won the popular vote in 2024 so the electoral system wasn’t the cause. Rigged or poor system yes but he would have won without the electoral college.

77.3 million votes for trump. Wikipedia

73.6% of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote 174 million, 65.3% voted. 154 million. Census.gov

About 231 million people could have voted.

77.3/231= 33.4% or 1/3

To put it in perspective if you walked up to an American adult that could have voted in 2024. You are twice as likely to hear that they didn’t vote for trump or didn’t vote than they voted for trump.

A door can get jammed on the door jamb

Yeah Nina. Spoilers>!She gets turned in season 2, becomes a main character in season 3, then “disappears” after season 3 before season 4 starts!<

Being Human UK version has a female werewolf and a great show.

Also The Magicians has a female werewolf making a period blood reference in a later season but isn’t really much about werewolfs. Great show too.

Plus ones

I have 10 friends I want to invite, they have 10 friends.

40 guests.

I’m 1 of 4 children. That’s 8 guests. If they were the same. 16 guests.

Over half way to 100 in just friends and immidiate family.

I have a dozen cousins from both sides. 24 guests. If they did, 24 guests.

Friends, immidiate family, and cousins. 100+

I have 3 best friends and at least 7 friends that have/will/would invite me to their weddings.

It adds up quick when you double then double again.

I second Citizen Eco-Drive

I have a ton of watches and I wear my Citizen Eco-Drive Primo Stingray 620 pretty much everyday.

Definitely would suggest a solar or motion powered watch. Batteries are a pain.

When I see something visual

I wouldn’t think letters, sounds, or words. I’d just get ideas that I can use my internal voice to consider if I wanted to think about it in words.

I believe I have visual dreams when I have them which isn’t often. They feel extremely real when I have them. I feel like I know the details without feeling like I made a list of details to remember, it’s like I remember from seeing it.

Yeah you lost me

Like you get words popping up in your head when you look at a visual stimulus and you can’t tell if the word are actually written there?

I find myself defaulting back to playing the last catchy song I heard if I choose to hum or whistle or just decide to play something in my head. I’d say it’s like leaving a cassette in the player, I can switch it out if I think about it, but if I just play “something” there will be a default tape in the player.

Hmm that’s really interesting. In a way, your mind can create images then because otherwise you wouldn’t see them. You just cannot consciously produce an image?

“Seldom anything visual”

Like you’d think you saw a black cat out of the corner of your eye and then you look and nothing is there? Or you see the black cat actually sitting there and know it’s not real?

I understand your inner voice it seems pretty much like mine.

Do you get earworms? Or is your inner voice completely voluntary?

Yeah I’m the same way. Always wondered how people were able to give such detailed information to police sketch artists.

Like I could work with one but at best it would be them drawing something close and me going “ehh this part and this part isn’t right” if I got a really good look at the person.

Do you get earworms?

I feel in a way I’d have to practice their voice in my head like I was trying to impersonate them vocally, just my mind could make any sound. But I myself couldn’t talk in a New York accent because I don’t understand what all to change and when. If I heard a New Yorker say a sentence I could repeat it back in my head the same way