Thinking styles: Visual vs Abstract vs Verbal vs Logic vs Connective vs Kinesthetic etc.
I’ve been surprised so much watching a clip about “aphantasia” saying “your mind is blind” just because a picture does not pop up in your mind when you think of something. I’ve always considered myself a " visual thinker ", though! Most of my thoughts are in “visual” form, or at least non-verbal form. I can imagine any shape, 2D, 3D, even 4D, not only in static but usually in dynamic state, let them move, transform, etc. But as I close my eyes, I see nothing but a black screen! It’s much harder for me to imagine things eyes closed than when eyes open. If I try a lot (when eyes close)… I can imagine some simple things but very flickering. So with eyes closed, I’m near “aphantasic”, and with eyes open, I’m “hypophantasic”, while I spend all of my life thinking with visualization instead of saying internal monologues. Where’s the root of that “contradiction”? It lies in the abstractness of my "mental image" and the “low resolution” of my mental screen. It’s a tra...