fuck you, I'm imagining a rainbow tapdancing apple with a top hat on a Roomba on a taxi

Or Indians, they're kind of known for their mind games.

The current prevailing theory is that we (4 here) actually do create the images much the same as you 1s, we're just not consciously aware of it. Our brains are doing the same thing behind the scenes, and they just translate it differently. Some personal "evidence" of this that I have are that when I'm high, I have an easier time visualizing, and that I dream VERY vividly.

I am good at design, can visualize how something will look when it's done but no don't SEE in my mind like that when I imagine how things look. It's a different sort of knowing. Cannot hold an image and rotate it in my mind and absolutely can't read a map that isn't facing the right way, there is a blindness.

Surely not antphasic because I do see in dreams, same as through eyes. And I do KNOW how things look when they aren't in front of me, and can know what imaginary things might look like too, but it doesn't at all feel like seeing it with my eyes.

Love reading. Love love love it, learned when I was very young, same age I was learning to talk, actually, like a language not a skill. And I do have an internal ear, when I remember music I hear it in my mind and it is so much like hearing it in my ears. Imagining how something looks does not feel the same as seeing it.

Solid 5 here. And I love to read. I love the smell of books, I love the feeling in my hands and I love the stories of course. I don't have an image of an character in my head, I don't have an image if the landscape, but I still enjoy it.

No snark, but how do you test this?

Like I can picture an apple, but it’s not real, so how do I know if I’m a 1 or a 4?

I can't imagine not doing #1, the only way I'll do other numbers is if you're asking me to imagine a hand drawn apple, colored or not, etc.

5 here ... I just recently learned that mind's eye actually meant an image.

We’re a 1, we can see, smell taste and even move the apple around along with an entire environment around it.

What we can’t do very well is thinking with words, though that has slowly been changing the past few years where we can think a little bit with words, however it’s mostly thoughts as emotions, objects and feelings of action.

Instead of thinking “I need to walk to the kitchen for water” we just think of ourselves physically getting up and getting the water with the sense of urgency and need. BuT when speaking/writing the way we do that is by remembering the visual words and hope they’re spelled out physically and what emotions/visuals connect with. Ie a physical apple in our mind have connections to the physical feelings of saying “Apple” [c.Eng], “manzana” [c.Esp], “りんご” [c.Jp] then each of those would have connections to spellings, grammatical connections, factoids, etc kinda like a language web.

But yeah anywho idk if anyone else thinks like that but it makes learning different languages hard, having to learn Spanish rn is like a full time job and after this we’re learning German, Dutch and then some other languages for the challenge/fun.

Solid five on this one, sometimes I can even feel/taste/smell it if applicable. Mostly happens when I think of sharp things though cause then I feel it from when I cut myself, literally did it while writing this comment. Is this an autism thing or do I just have multiple layers of mental fuckery?

I can see things in my head, rotate them, look from different angles, try out different colors for a room, etc. But it's not really the same as seeing visually. It's just kind of imagining what it would look like. It's hard to explain. It's as if you were dreaming it while you are still awake. But also less vivid than a dream.

This is really about how much abstraction you have in your thinking. I've seen people be very heavily on the #1 side when i was a kid, and it was always baffling to me that people seem to be unable to talk about objects if they don't have very detailed descriptions of superficial details that seemed completely irrelevant to me.

1 or two and rotatable.

You guys are gonna lose your shit when you find out some people don't have an inner monologue.