Potential Piñata

Corny snake !

Imagining a cat on my hand is just for adding easiness.

I can imagine a cat anywhere. Right now, a tall water bottle is on a table in front of me. I can imagine a cat one the table, walking towards the bottle and ultimately jumps on it. I can also imagine the bottle to shake or fall down as an impact.

Imagining a still object, for example an apple is more easy. I can imagine the apple has a non scientifical gravity trait and it keeps bouncing on every flat surfaces around the room.

I’ve been considering this as normal imagination power for the people who don’t have Aphantasia. Probably because I can imagine like this with ease.

Seeing past the thing that I imagine is kinda a cognitive blindspot. Because, I don’t try to look past what I imagine. A cat or an apple.

Only when I get aware of the fact if I really do look past or not, the confusion arises. But it is much difficult for me to imagine a transparent object. Like an apple made of glass.

Wow. I didn’t know about the term “prophantasia” until now. Probably because I think that visualizing things in our 3d world is a normally developed imagination power of the people who don’t have Aphantasia.

Prophantasia seems like biologically evolved Augmented Reality. Where instead of wearing a piece of AR glass, We’re naturally born with this trait.

I can pull out my palm in front of me and visualize a small cat jumping around. Not for too long because I cannot imagine the random movement a cat does. But, as a still object, visualizing an apple is easy.

I am more curious to wonder if someone can manually develop Spatial Intelligence without being born with it priorly.

Isn’t 5 is called Aphantasia ? To be unable to visualize something in the mind?