I don’t even have to close my eyes to do this
as an aphantasiac I will literally describe the worst possible scene and you will be forced to picture it
and I will win
:3
Yeah i’m like 80% aphantasiac, I can picture maybe the last time I saw a cow I, could probably imagine something else in the static scene, I can’t even really make it turn it’s head.
There’s no rotating it.
All I got is dark gray static. No cows. The occasional moving blob of different dark gray static.
When I used to have to go to church as a kid, I’d imagine I was starting a new save file of Zelda Ocarina of Time. By the time mass was over I’d usually be up to one of the first rooms in the Great Deku Tree, in my head. It was only decades later I learned I was also autistic, but that’s a story for another day!
I did the same with watching Pulp Fiction and The Phantom Menace in church
Consider the consequences of your actions, please!
Is it worth it? That depends. What percentage of the boys does it bring to the yard?
According to the pic, at least 2
I think we need to run a controlled experiment to determine the ratio of boys brought to one’s yard.
They can’t stop you yet…
Aphantasia enters the chat.
A condition with a prevalence rate of 0.8% is not worth thinking about, let alone considering in the context of a meme.
It’s always worth considering people who function differently, even if it’s just a passing thought.
How many people don’t have any <1% conditions?
I mean, it’s a pretty hard thing to understand if you don’t know about aphantasia. Since we can’t know what other people experience in their mind, what we perceive is considered ‘normal’ because that’s all we know.
I didn’t realize I had aphantasia until I was 18. Doesn’t mean I suddenly became aphantasic at that same time.
Since we can’t know what other people experience in their mind
I was 48 when I discovered that I had Aphantasia. I was blown away that when I learned that people could imagine pictures in their mind’s eye.
Same here. I think it was actually this meme that did it. I saw people commenting that they could not and I’m like “ha yeah, of course you can’t, who can do that?”. The lots of people are like, yeah, I can create a complex 3d shape in my mind and manipulate it, turn it, get closer, etc. I’m like WTF who are these megamind savants who can do this. Turns out, most people.
I felt very alone and very incapable after that realization.
I am curious about this condition. What goes on in your head and how did you figure out you had aphantasia? Now I am trying to imagine a rotating cow after reading the comments (didn’t imagine it when I saw the meme), and I can only recreate in my head the gif somebody posted in one of the comments.
While a prevalence of 0.8% may seem like a tiny amount but when applied to a large population it’s a significant number of people. Let’s say a city has a nice round 100,000 people, a small city by any measure. That’s 800 people, not such a small number anymore. The lives of those 800 people are worth thinking about. Granted in the context of a larger population but it’s still something.
representation matters.
I just did it but the cops still stopped me for speeding with my eyes closed. Does not work 👎
Am I supposed to assume a spherical cow?
Yes. In a frictionless vacuum.
With an ambient light source the same color as the cow and the background.
Why is the cow wearing a thong? :(
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You’d rather it be naked that’s fine you can rotate naked cows
Yo everybody! Get a load of this guy! His rotating mind cows are naked!
I assume there’s a variety
Mine is wearing a leather suit.
The Ed Gein of cows
Because you want to bang your mom.
Thanks for the very valuable tip, person whose name is Hot Diarrhea.
Is the mind cow merely rotating in air, or must I imagine myself picking it up and rotating it physically? If I’m imagining physically rotating the cow, am I imagining exertion, or should I be imagining that I have super human strength?
In what plane should I rotate it?
Is the cow in a field or in a barn? Or is it in an empty void?
If I’m physically rotating the cow, how am I dressed? Am I wearing my normal attire, or am I dressed like a dairy farmer? How does a dairy farmer dress? Is the cow wearing any clothing?
Can I choose what season I imagine the cow rotating in, or must it be the current season?
I have so many questions and now I’m even more bored than I was before!
As someone with full auditory and visual Aphantasia. This is extremely fucked up and ableist. (I am honestly only half joking this is very ableist either way)
I can’t rotate cows in my head. I can’t even hear cows in my head.
The cops still can’t stop be tho.
100% of theoretical physicists would agree that cows are spheres. You could do mental math in which you calculate changes to the cardinality of the distributed mass.
It should look something like this: 0⁰
Fuck, it’s the police!
Sounds like you will need to rotate a real cow while in international waters.
Lol if they had said that you can count your fingers then we’d have someone in here without arms saying how ableist the tweet was
saying
How dare you, some people are mute and can’t say! /j
Hard to write without fingers too. Doable but harder, very abelist again!!
Some people are in a coma. Just don’t do anything!
Everyone must cut out their own tongues and chop off their hands and feet, for inclusivity!
I’m able to do it if I’m half asleep. Problem is i get so excited at my ability to create anything I want in amazing detail that I wake back up
I can hear cows in my head, but seriously it’s not that great. All they say all day long is, “kill them. Kill them all.”
It’s kind of monotonous.
I can’t even hear cows in my head.
I’m curious about that part. Does that mean you also don’t get that weird thing where you hear like, people chattering/ music/ something falling down just before you fall asleep? Or are dreams/half-asleep hallucinations not affected by aphantasia?
Apparently dreams aren’t necessarily affected by aphantasia.
I feel like when I do have dreams they are extremely vivid and real because I am seeing my thoughts which isn’t normal.
you hear like, people chattering/ music/ something falling down just before you fall asleep?
What the hell are you on about??
Probably Hypnogogic hallucination, which is a normal and common transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep characterized by vivid hallucinations incorporating any or all senses.
I have this too. Music, people, simulated falling, stuff like that right before I fall asleep. I always thought this was common?
Yea if you’re possessed by a demon maybe /jk
Never had this. I either fall asleep and wake up later. Or I’m getting half-awake dreams before I fall asleep, where I’m not I’m still a bit in control at first, but then lose control. (I know I’m dreaming, I just can’t steer it)
I can remember these half-dreams, but not the real dreams later
Never experienced it and never heard anyone else mention it before.
Exploding Head Syndrome maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
Mayhaps
Auditory hallucinations aren’t as common as you seem to think haha. I have them too sometimes.
The only thing I’d classify as that is “feeling” like I hear far-away inaudible voices.
Or is it that auditory hallucinations are strongly associated (not clinically, just the way they are always talked about) with bad mental health problems like schizophrenia, which makes them taboo, so people choose not to talk about them, even to doctors?
I get auditory, gustatory, and olfactory hallucinations all the time, due to chronic headache and migraines. Wish I got visual ones too, just for the variety, but alas. I hate peanut butter so so much (my most common hallucination is the smell or taste of peanut butter). My auditory hallucinations aren’t usually voices talking, though, they tend to be cats meowing or chickens yelling, because that’s what I hear most frequently in my daily life, so that’s what I’m trained to listen for.
Wait, what? Is that something people experience?
… I think so? Never questioned it honestly, guess I’ll have to do some research now haha
edit: this website says they’re fiiiiine, although the auditory ones are rarer than visual and somatic ones. Somewhat related to Narcolepsy though, so I guess that’s another thing to mention when I get evaluated for that haha (getting on adhd meds somewhat fixed my daytime eepyness so I’ve been procrastinating on getting it checked out)
I would like to know more
How/when did you discover this?
Not OP but also have aphantasia.
I discovered it when I was…23? My whole life I figured people were saying “picture this…” figuratively and it didn’t even occur to me that it could be otherwise because it was self-evidently impossible to me to “see” something until I learned the word “aphantasia” and that the inability to visualize is not considered the norm/not universal.
Yeah took me 36 years.
It takes actually knowing that people actually see images to know that you cannot do that.
Counting sheep never made true sense to me. How is keeping a tally of “imaginary” sheep jumping over an “imaginary” fence supposed to help me fall asleep?
Makes sense when you realize people do it to stop their brains from randomly sending themselves other imaginary that’s going to keep them up. It’s like choosing to turn on the TV to something you could fall asleep to is my understanding.
Yeah, with that one in particular I thhough everybody was just beating a dead horse with the same joke on “counting sleep.”
Is this ableist? Doesn’t seem prejudicial at all. /g
No, it isn’t.
…and the cops can’t stop you
Neither can the cow hehehehehehe
