Vision: Gauging my visual imagination is tricky. My visual experience of the world is different from my experience of a photograph (I think my visual experience is linked to my strong kinesthetic sense, which doesn’t really come through for a photo). My imagination/memory is somewhat similar to looking at a photo, but it can take a long time to fill in details in my mind, although there isn’t really anything lacking visually.
Sound: I have an almost-photographic auditory memory, but it doesn’t work while I’m dreaming. For many years I thought that I didn’t experience sound at all in my dreams because I didn’t have the vivid memories that I did of waking sound. At some point I had the distinct experience of noticing that I was hearing sound in a dream, realizing that it was a dream, and remembering I had previously decided that I probably didn’t hear sound in dreams.
I don’t have an aversion to musical dissonance in the way that it seems many people do. I’m not tone-deaf, but basically anything “sounds right”.
Taste: I have approximately zero taste imagination. I can barely imagine the experience of tasting pure salt or something metallic. Nothing beyond that.
Smell/Touch: Both of these are very close to full conscious experience for me.
My spatial awareness/kinesthesia is also very strong, but spinning even 3-4 times gives me motion sickness that can sometimes take hours to fully dissipate.
I have a strong sense that Left is “better” than Right. I find ‘Xx’ to be more balanced than ‘xX’. Left is associated with darkness, weight, stability, and low pitch. I prefer to start walking with my left foot or start a tapping rhythm with my left hand. I would rather walk an anticlockwise direction around a path or obstacle. (I am right-hand-dominant, but left-eye-dominant.)
In my childhood, I had an OCD-like need to balance the number of times I touched things with each finger. (This conflicted with my preference to touch with my left hand first and resulted in me independently discovering the Thue–Morse sequence.)
Monologue/words: There’s almost always a monologue, but most of my thinking doesn’t translate directly to words.
Memory: I don’t associate past experiences with the time at which they occurred. I basically have order-of-magnitude-sized buckets “today” “last week” “within a month or two” “this year” “this decade” unless there’s something in the context that lets me narrow it down more precisely.
In college I hardly ever had to study for tests. I would either remember what I needed or rederive it from what I did remember.
A lot of concepts in my head are rather vague and abstract. I imagine the concept as something like a lumpy, high-dimensional clay blob. Incorporating new information looks something like throwing the small new blob at the big one and seeing how it sticks. Retrieving information looks something like taking a cross section or shadow projection and interpreting the result. (Like I said, most of this doesn’t translate to words.)
Vision: Gauging my visual imagination is tricky. My visual experience of the world is different from my experience of a photograph (I think my visual experience is linked to my strong kinesthetic sense, which doesn’t really come through for a photo). My imagination/memory is somewhat similar to looking at a photo, but it can take a long time to fill in details in my mind, although there isn’t really anything lacking visually.
Sound: I have an almost-photographic auditory memory, but it doesn’t work while I’m dreaming. For many years I thought that I didn’t experience sound at all in my dreams because I didn’t have the vivid memories that I did of waking sound. At some point I had the distinct experience of noticing that I was hearing sound in a dream, realizing that it was a dream, and remembering I had previously decided that I probably didn’t hear sound in dreams.
I don’t have an aversion to musical dissonance in the way that it seems many people do. I’m not tone-deaf, but basically anything “sounds right”.
Taste: I have approximately zero taste imagination. I can barely imagine the experience of tasting pure salt or something metallic. Nothing beyond that.
Smell/Touch: Both of these are very close to full conscious experience for me.
My spatial awareness/kinesthesia is also very strong, but spinning even 3-4 times gives me motion sickness that can sometimes take hours to fully dissipate.
I have a strong sense that Left is “better” than Right. I find ‘Xx’ to be more balanced than ‘xX’. Left is associated with darkness, weight, stability, and low pitch. I prefer to start walking with my left foot or start a tapping rhythm with my left hand. I would rather walk an anticlockwise direction around a path or obstacle. (I am right-hand-dominant, but left-eye-dominant.)
In my childhood, I had an OCD-like need to balance the number of times I touched things with each finger. (This conflicted with my preference to touch with my left hand first and resulted in me independently discovering the Thue–Morse sequence.)
Monologue/words: There’s almost always a monologue, but most of my thinking doesn’t translate directly to words.
Memory: I don’t associate past experiences with the time at which they occurred. I basically have order-of-magnitude-sized buckets “today” “last week” “within a month or two” “this year” “this decade” unless there’s something in the context that lets me narrow it down more precisely.
In college I hardly ever had to study for tests. I would either remember what I needed or rederive it from what I did remember.
A lot of concepts in my head are rather vague and abstract. I imagine the concept as something like a lumpy, high-dimensional clay blob. Incorporating new information looks something like throwing the small new blob at the big one and seeing how it sticks. Retrieving information looks something like taking a cross section or shadow projection and interpreting the result. (Like I said, most of this doesn’t translate to words.)