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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 01:32:29 JST Adrianna Tan

   I have #aphantasia and I can’t make visual images in my head. ‘Picture an apple’.. I can’t picture anything. People have asked me how I dream. I don’t have visual dreams.

   I just had a dream in which I.. smelled a variety of things. Interesting!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 01:53:53 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Matthew Loxton

     @mloxton yes, i never have visual dreams. it's all the other senses

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     Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 01:53:55 JST Matthew Loxton

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     @skinnylatte
     wait, you smelled something in a dream?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 01:55:29 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Humphrey Archer

     @screwturn sure. email me: skinnylatte [ at ] gmail

     i read extensively, a lot of fiction too.

     scifi and fantasy fiction is very difficult for me to parse and follow. i almost always have to look up illustrations to help me. but if the writing is good i am able to just 'feel' it anyway

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     Humphrey Archer (screwturn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 01:55:30 JST Humphrey Archer

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     @skinnylatte
     Writer here.
     I am very curious what goes on with you when you read one of my short stories.

     May I offer you a link to one?

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     M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 02:01:11 JST M.S. Bellows, Jr.

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     • Matthew Loxton

     @skinnylatte @mloxton How do you identify what things you're smelling without vision?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 02:01:11 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Matthew Loxton

     @msbellows @mloxton i have no way of understanding how people process thoughts through vision, so this is just totally normal for me.

     in tihs dream, i was probably walking into a crowded old timey bar and i smelled cigarette smoke. instead of 'seeing' the bar' or the place, i simply only smelled the smoke and other people. it's as if the vision part of it was just missing.

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     Adam Moe (adammoe2022@c.im)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 02:29:42 JST Adam Moe

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     @skinnylatte I used to work for a company that treated this sort of thing with various visualization and verbalization techniques. I saw some pretty amazing things during my time there.

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     M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 02:30:15 JST M.S. Bellows, Jr.

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     • Matthew Loxton

     @skinnylatte @mloxton Wow. Fascinating.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 02:30:15 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Matthew Loxton

     @msbellows @mloxton in real life, i have the vision piece only in the present: when i am actively seeing the thing. so i can process sight and smell in real time. but once i walk away i can no longer conjure the visual in my head but i can still 'smell' if i try

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 02:56:48 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Snippety Snap (she/her)

     @shansterable there's a term for that. hyperphantasia! lots of people who get it get extremely disturbed by the visuals

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     Snippety Snap (she/her) (shansterable@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 02:56:49 JST Snippety Snap (she/her)

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     @skinnylatte
     I find this extremely interesting.

     I am the opposite. I picture pretty much everything that is said to me. That is why I have a lot of trouble when people use pronouns without first identifying the noun - a big blank comes to my mind as the subject of the sentence.

     This is also why I cannot tolerate phrases such as "Let me pick your brain" as I see in my mind a dental-style pick poking at my open skull. Ew!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 03:48:04 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Snippety Snap (she/her)

     @ShiitakeToast @shansterable yeah i can't visualize anything

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     Shiitake Toast (shiitaketoast@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 03:48:06 JST Shiitake Toast

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     • Snippety Snap (she/her)

     @shansterable @skinnylatte hang on a minute! That’s not normal?!

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     Snippety Snap (she/her) (shansterable@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 03:48:07 JST Snippety Snap (she/her)

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     @skinnylatte
     Learned a new word today. Thanks!

     And, yes, many visuals are extremely disturbing.

     Flogging a dead horse: someone standing over a dead, rotting horse repeatedly using a bullwhip.
     Kill two birds with one stone: Someone holding a large stone and smashing two birds into bloody mush.
     
     On and on....

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 03:52:22 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Snippety Snap (she/her)

     @ShiitakeToast @shansterable not really. i also do not have an inner voice or monologue haha

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     Shiitake Toast (shiitaketoast@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 03:52:23 JST Shiitake Toast

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     • Snippety Snap (she/her)

     @skinnylatte @shansterable what about sounds? If I say nails on a chalkboard, do you hear anything?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 03:54:13 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Snippety Snap (she/her)

     @ShiitakeToast @shansterable although because i play music i can 'hear' pitch and tones quite well in my head, i just maybe tune out all stimuli when i'm walking across anything

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 04:50:22 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Adam Moe

     @adammoe2022 oh yes I’ve read about some people who have taught themselves to ‘ses’

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     Adam Moe (adammoe2022@c.im)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 05:16:56 JST Adam Moe

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     @skinnylatte I once worked with a surgeon that couldn’t picture and discuss performing an operation and needed to pass an oral board to be certified. It worked. Frankly, it was pretty amazing work.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 05:59:01 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Negative12DollarBill

     @negative12dollarbill I would need an actual printed reference image of photo.

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     Negative12DollarBill (negative12dollarbill@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 05:59:02 JST Negative12DollarBill

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     @skinnylatte
     What if I asked you to draw an apple? Could you do that?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 06:00:43 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Snippety Snap (she/her)

     @ShiitakeToast @shansterable my internal monologue is exactly like how I write (here and long form). Like a long form essay of text and feelings.

     It actually kind of colors the way I write because I can ‘feel’ the quality of sentences and emotions

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     Shiitake Toast (shiitaketoast@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 06:00:44 JST Shiitake Toast

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     • Snippety Snap (she/her)

     @skinnylatte @shansterable jealous about the lack of inner monologue, unless it just comes out externally.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 07:48:14 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Tormod

     @airwhale yep that is hyperphantasia! no idea what that's like!

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     Tormod (airwhale@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 07:48:15 JST Tormod

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     @skinnylatte

     I'm almost 60 and I had never heard of this before right now. Mind blown and I am finding it super fascinating. I am also very opposite - a very visual thinker and my dreams often have Hollywood level production for the sets (although the writers are crap). I even had dreams with rolling end credits.

     Then again, I have a very limited sense of smell. Weird…

     Thanks for sharing!