I began to consider this as my mouth filled with the flavor of pineapple as I remembered the flavor of a pineapple.
Do other senses suffer from the same issue?
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Yep! I have them all!
And honestly it is annoying somedays, I remember if do. Something is bad tasting or good tasting but I really can’t imagine the taste as most people would just basics like salty or sweet kinda thing
I also have hearing, which is weird with my autism tbh, plus all the other senses. I know burning hurta but I can’t imagine the feeling of it.
Olfactory aphantasia is the inability to imagine smells Phantosmia is detecting smells that aren’t there
Similarly there’s gustatory aphantasia for taste and phantom taste perception
Etc
Fuck yes, the real answer. Thank you, @ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Immediately surfaced results.
We probably don’t have a c/rimjobsteve yet, but would this qualify?
Likely both ragebutt and I would qualify.
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It’s not exactly the same for me, but it’s pretty close. Sometimes it’s a little more faded. Just depends on what it is. Sound, on the other hand, I can picture that loud and clear.
A phantom taste perception is actually a lingering bad taste in your mouth and actually caused by multiple things like schizophrenia, diabetes, bad dental hygiene, head injuries, certain cancers, medications, etc
Yes I’m blind across all internal senses.
There’s amusia, which is “tone-deafness”.
It’s one thing to not sing in tune or not remember a melody correctly, but there are people who can not even hear a difference between two melodies, even if they can tell other sounds apart. I would guess that’s somewhat similar, because I doubt these people have any chance in imagining what a melody sounds like.
Edit: removed what I said because apparently, in spite of the literal definitions of the words, I was wrong!
Would you happen to know the names or be willing to share? I guess I didn’t know what to look for.
EDIT: Looks like you’re wrong about it specifically relating to vision.
https://aphantasia.com/topic/olfactory-aphantasia/
It might not be called aphantasia since it isn’t for sight, but yeah it exists, I have it for taste and smell.
Just last week I was looking up ADHD and autism in blind people, but I was also questioning whether blind people could have aphantasia. Or rather, how does blind people perceive roundness or a circle in their mind? They know what it feels like at least, so is it tied to some other sense? I’m guessing blind people have a way of mapping out surroundings and 3D space, but I imagine explaining how a person thinks about stuff like this is as hard to describe as whether two people perceive the same colours the same way.
People with aphantasia have improved spatial memory that tries to compensate for episodic memory.
So the first thing that I feel when I try to remember something is my position in the room, or where the person speaking to me was standing.
Same thing if I try and ‘see’ a circle. I’ll just feel the dimensions. Hard to describe but it’s almost like pressure in my frontal cortex. A circle feels like coming down from the left and right in a circular pattern, whereas imagining a tree feels like the pressure is at the bottom pushing up.
Interesting, it might be just different or depend on what sense is more dominant. I can feel imaginary smells, but never felt imaginary taste.
