Thread by @windthin

I do not know if I've mentioned this before, but this here is me. I do not get "seeing things in your head" despite being highly artistic and creative.

I discovered I have this a while back also. Some folks doing a study wanted to speak with me about this. I still don't get this "seeing things in my head" business. They believed that if you were at a 0 like I am, you'd not be very creative, yet I am highly creative.

This idea that you can actually SEE things in your head really baffles me. And I've had the same problem with trying to visualize things.

I can envision whole vast worlds, but I don't SEE them. They're concepts to me. For me, they're words. This may be why I can't draw but I am

great with graphics so long as I have something to build from. I have to actually see things to work with them, and I have ideas, and make jewelry and steampunk clothing and recipes, but it's... not the same.

I do have extremely vivid dreams, though, and I daydream, and get lost

in whole other worlds in doing so, but I don't... "see them." It's hard to explain. And I have the same thing described here where I lose the visuals on my dreams once I wake.

And yes, on some level, I still have a hard time believing people actually see things in their heads. I always took that as a metaphor.

I just realized that instead of images, I have a running narrative in my head. A stream of conscious, a flow of thoughts. A deep river, I've often called it, which I dip into, and sometimes threatens to sweep me away. If that makes sense.

I also just realized something. Some years ago on a site I talked about how for me words were as powerful than images, moreso, and I got laughed at by people who said pictures were vastly more potent. And now I think I understand why that difference was there.