Visualization, imagination

>>8783851
>be me as a kid
>booming imagination, can conjure images and concepts almost effortlessly and write for hours on end

>be me now
>it takes half an hour to come up with a good phrase

Feels bad, man

I never imagined reading is supposed to improve your visualisation. All I see is letters, meaning play and rhythm.

>>8783896

Don't you visualize while you read? No imaginary pictures in your head while reading a story?
In that case you might have aphantasia

>>8784037
I don't think your made up disorder applies in my case. I can fantasise, but reading is rarely the time for it. Imagery always feels specious, forced. Also, I'm more of an ear person.

>>8783896
>>8784047
You mite have autism.

>>8784056
Perhaps. I hear neurotypicals can't into the abstract

>>8784047

First off, it's not made up. Google it.
And now that you said you are more audiatory type of a person, makes even more sense, doesn't it?
Then i assume you can "hear" a melody in your head even if you don't actualy hear it through ears.

Do you prefer reading or audiobooks?

>>8784092
I don't like audiobooks.

And I think a vast majority of people can sound a melody in their heads, and still be able to visualize things, and vice-versa Same with taste, etc.

But how can you "imagine", say, a reasoning process, or the relationships between the components of a metaphor. That's my point.

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>>8783851
>picture-thinking