#AskingAutistics. Please look at the attached image and do the "visual projection" exercise it presents.
Then fill out the poll in the next tweet. There are four picture of a...
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Which image is closest to what you where able to "see"?
With an attempt at clarity, this is *not* a hypherphantasia <-> aphantasia test, this is about projecting a desired image into your sense of sight.

"Can you, as an act of will alter the image presented to see an apple in the image as if the image depicted an apple?"
Checking the definition of hallucination: “experience an apparent sensory perception of something that is not actually present.”

Using that specific definition this could be described as “can you, as an act of will, hallucinate that there is an apple in the image?”

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