Re: Lack of Imagery - call for experiences....

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 15:39:57 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 08:30 PM 5/28/02 -0700, R. Coyote wrote:
>
> >Its unimaginable to me that someone couldn't close their eyes and 'see' an
> >apple after just staring at one, then again I usually have vividly colored
> >dreams
>
> Dreaming visual imagery has nothing to do with waking visual imagery. The
> former must only require the random activation of the same process modules
> and loops involved in sight. I dream in full color too, but am totally
> lacking in waking visual imagery. It's very annoying.

My waking visual imagery tends toward monotone or greyscale, typically
similar to that of the early arcade games like asteroids or CAD systems.
I do, however, have very good 3d spatial visualization abilities...



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