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[Sparkplug]

This caused my son a lot of problems from elementary through high school math classes. His work didn’t show all of the steps because he would visualize them. Teachers would mark it wrong even though it was the correct answer. After a while he would do it in ink because it was going to be marked wrong so he might as well break a rule. Their reasoning was he would have to show his work in college. He mailed him his clicker

 

[LivntheCyLife]

I have never heard of this, but that sounds an awful lot like me. On the other hand, when it comes to things like the test where you have to imagine what a three dimensional figure would look like if unfolded flat I rock at it but I don't think that is the same thing at all. My issues are more memory based or converting details in text (like in a novel) into a visulization. I can understand what is happening but am unable to marry the described visual details to the action.

I'm good at those 3D figure puzzles too but I'd say it's almost because I don't try to visualize the rotation/flattening. Its more of a logic puzzle that I work my way through.

 

[BillyClone]

This caused my son a lot of problems from elementary through high school math classes. His work didn’t show all of the steps because he would visualize them. Teachers would mark it wrong even though it was the correct answer. After a while he would do it in ink because it was going to be marked wrong so he might as well break a rule. Their reasoning was he would have to show his work in college. He mailed him his clicker

Math teachers in elementary/middle school are the worst. Did he only get half credit if he forgot to add the label to his answer? (High school can go either way - some good, some bad)

 

[Farnsworth]

This isn't what you were getting at, but at times I can close my eyes and vividly see another area like my eyes are wide open. I had a really weird experience Monday night (might have been a little bit of the pain meds I was on), but I would close my eyes trying to sleep, but I had full vision another location, and the sounds coming from the tv were being playing out by these other charecters in my visualizations. I could switch between seeing what I was thinking, and then opening them to make sure it was actually the tv making the sound.

 

[VeloClone]

This isn't what you were getting at, but at times I can close my eyes and vividly see another area like my eyes are wide open. I had a really weird experience Monday night (might have been a little bit of the pain meds I was on), but I would close my eyes trying to sleep, but I had full vision another location, and the sounds coming from the tv were being playing out by these other charecters in my visualizations. I could switch between seeing what I was thinking, and then opening them to make sure it was actually the tv making the sound.

I don't think acid qualifies as a pain med...

 

[ca4cy]

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.- Jack Handey

 

[Cy$]

I can visualize me doing 360 windmill dunks, then on the court.....

 

[ElephantPie]

 

[srjclone]

Yes.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Yeah, I can visualize things, but not with great detail. Bits and pieces. My memory overall sucks, so if I have to try to remember an event or something, I have to chain some memories together and get it ramped up before I have almost any recall.

 

[Cyclonepride]

This caused my son a lot of problems from elementary through high school math classes. His work didn’t show all of the steps because he would visualize them. Teachers would mark it wrong even though it was the correct answer. After a while he would do it in ink because it was going to be marked wrong so he might as well break a rule. Their reasoning was he would have to show his work in college. He mailed him his clicker

I do that in math still- almost like seeing the problem on a chalkboard in my mind and working through it there.

 

[weR138]

When you close your eyes and picture something can you clearly visualize the item or do you imagine it's there without actually "seeing" it?

Yes,

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. This is my dream; this is my nightmare.

Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor...and surviving.

 

[LarryISU]

Not being able to visualize things is a real condition called aphantasia. I have it and didn't realize others *could* visualize things.

This is comparable in a way to the tinnitus I have had my entire life. I just thought it was normal, I assumed everyone heard multiple tones in their head 24/7. I was probably about 45 when I realized that there are people, probably most people, who hear nothing in a silent environment. I just can't even imagine.

Anyway, as to the original topic, I certainly can visualize anything I want and can't imagine not being able to do so. Seems like visualization is a fairly important skill and not having it would seem almost like a handicap for many situations. I had never heard of this.

 

[EnhancedFujita]

So when you say visualize, are we talking like you actually see an image of what you are thinking about like a picture? I can visualize things in my head, like how I'm going to build something and what it'll look like when I'm done, or what a beach scene would look like. But when I close my eyes and thinking about them, I don't see any image in my mind. If someone ever asked if I could visualize things though, I'd definitely say yes.

 

[joss fisch]

just curious, can you dream ? If so, do you see things then ?

 

[dosry5]

Not being able to visualize things is a real condition called aphantasia. I have it and didn't realize others *could* visualize things.

What the heck do you think about when you ....you know.....alone time?

 

[SoapyCy]

This describes it better than I could...

www.newscientist.com/article/2083706-my-minds-eye-is-blind-so-whats-going-on-in-my-brain/amp/

 

[Farnsworth]

I do that in math still- almost like seeing the problem on a chalkboard in my mind and working through it there.

I always thought of math the way they teach those people through online bought videos. I must have been ahead of my time.

 

[SNEDDS3]

I can taste the smell and smell the taste.

 

[cyTOPEia]

This describes it better than I could...

www.newscientist.com/article/2083706-my-minds-eye-is-blind-so-whats-going-on-in-my-brain/amp/

This is an awesome article. I definitely can’t see things when I close my eyes. Maybe sometimes I can make some colors swirl. Yet, despite this, I am very good with visual spatial tasks which is weird. Thanks for this article!