Also a few nights ago I had the odd sensation of visualizing the set of common American candy bars as a superimposed image. Not the union of the candy bars, but being able to see all of them at the same time despite them being in the same visual space… there is no analogue of this in actual sight, so I’m not sure why my visual cortex would be able to do that. I can’t do it (at least not nearly as well or convincingly) right now. I really wanted to buy a Snickers bar. Anyway this allowed me to look at a lot of things spatially while retaining a lot of detail, but it wasn’t a dynamical process that I was visualizing, but a set of objects. This superimposed visualization thing seems pretty cool though; perhaps I can train it to see dynamical processes spatially represented in a small space with lots of details for each spatial representation of a time slice?
(Where each of the shaded rectangles is one of the candy bars.)
And, as to whether there’s an analogue of this in actual sight, of course there’s not (if I know what you mean), but that doesn’t mean that it’s an uncommon thing. Just look out into your room (or wherever you are), and imagine that something (such as a dog or something) is there. What’s the difference between the actual scene and the imagined scene? Well, the actual one is much more vivid, and the imagined is much less vivid. It’s not that you’re only seeing the real situation, and not seeing the imagined one; it’s simply that the real one is much more forceful to your mind than the imagined. The imagined one is “superimposed” over the other one; you can see both.
So is that how the candy bars were stacked on top of each other on your visual field?
Also a few nights ago I had the odd sensation of visualizing the set of common American candy bars as a superimposed image. Not the union of the candy bars, but being able to see all of them at the same time despite them being in the same visual space… there is no analogue of this in actual sight, so I’m not sure why my visual cortex would be able to do that. I can’t do it (at least not nearly as well or convincingly) right now. I really wanted to buy a Snickers bar. Anyway this allowed me to look at a lot of things spatially while retaining a lot of detail, but it wasn’t a dynamical process that I was visualizing, but a set of objects. This superimposed visualization thing seems pretty cool though; perhaps I can train it to see dynamical processes spatially represented in a small space with lots of details for each spatial representation of a time slice?
Or perhaps your diet is too strict.
Something like this?
(Where each of the shaded rectangles is one of the candy bars.)
And, as to whether there’s an analogue of this in actual sight, of course there’s not (if I know what you mean), but that doesn’t mean that it’s an uncommon thing. Just look out into your room (or wherever you are), and imagine that something (such as a dog or something) is there. What’s the difference between the actual scene and the imagined scene? Well, the actual one is much more vivid, and the imagined is much less vivid. It’s not that you’re only seeing the real situation, and not seeing the imagined one; it’s simply that the real one is much more forceful to your mind than the imagined. The imagined one is “superimposed” over the other one; you can see both.
So is that how the candy bars were stacked on top of each other on your visual field?