I'm usually 1, sometimes 2 when I'm tired. I can imagine whole storylines as if they were movies, which made planning comic panels super easy to me. I was just imagining the whole scene in my head first and then extracting key frames 😆

I think I'm a 3-4? Its such a hard thing to gauge. I've known people who are 1s and 5s

3. Though colour is fine, I don't know why this graph removes the colour. Things I visualize appear quite faint, like I can hardly see them. But I can definitely visualize things.

So I'm really not sure where I lie on the scale. I try to imagine the apple but I really can't create any kind of image.

I read a bit about this and tried to imagine faces of people I know and had a little more success. However it is like I'm recreating each part at a time and as soon as I start to imagine another part, the previous disappears. I.e. I imagine the right side of the face, eye and cheek, the go to imagine the left side and the right side fades or disappears completely, imagine the hair, and the face is vague at best etc.

But also, I can also have incredibly vivid dreams!

It's almost like imaging an apple is too trivial for my mind to bother with! I try to imagine my front garden and its there, but rather vague and monochrome, so maybe 3-4.

5. No pics in my brain at all. Also have Anendophasia (no inner voice).

I dream but it fucks me up. Same system my brain uses for reality stuff. Takes time to sort out if not fantastical. I still don’t see anything. Just remember like I do other stuff without pictures. It so disconcerting that I have smoked cannabis every night since I was 13 before bed to suppress the dreams even though they surface from time to time, at least then I know they are dreams.

Can you guys actually see things? Like I can pretty clearly imagine things but theres no physical things to see things. I can imagine folding a box in my mind or spinning it but I wouldn't say I can see the box

It varies based on context and how much thought I put into it. I might just think apples and not image them if its just a place holder but if Im thinking more about apples or like a scene in a book is engaging then the apple will be there in the visualization but how detailed it is is going to be based on its importance in whatever the thing is. I would have to be really trying to visualize the perfect apple to get a high detail one in my head. I used to read a lot and I feel like I visualized a lot more then but now that I am consuming media that just has the thing its like im not working out the muscle.

i literally don't know.

For me it's like seeing through a small frosted window my above my right eye, muted colors and blobs. I see some fuzzy words, max 3 letters in my upper left "field of view". Other than that all black and all images fade in a second or two.

5, unfortunately 😕

I think i might be 1 or 2 or middle of it. I can create a map in my head, then rotate the map. I used to be able to do it well but lately maybe because of old, i need to focus a bit more to do it.

But then i could be 3? Because the colour could be off.

I'm like a 2. I can picture an apple, it has color and texture, but when I try to rotate it the colors don't really work, like I don't know what's on the other side. Same thing with picturing a rubix cube. I can imagine seeing maybe 2 or 3 faces of the cube and I know how rotations/moves work but when I visualize it the new faces are just colorless.

If I try really really hard I might be able to visualize colors on the new face but the colors definitely wouldn't be consistent on each side of the rubix cube.

Somewhere between 3 and 5? I don't know.

Picture a line diagram of an apple, annotated with average dimensions, weight, taste, smell, possible colours, patterns, and whatnot, all cross-referenced to lists of apple varieties, recipes, and other random information about apples.

Now remove the diagram, and leave only the information. No, not as text, or spoken words, just as raw information.

That's the one, whichever number it is.

(This doesn't mean I couldn't draw you an apple, mind, the necessary information is still all there — I mean, I can't, but because my hand eye coordination sucks, not because of the aphantasia; give me a vector drawing software I'm familiar with and I'd probably be able to draw you a pretty cromulent apple.)

Follow up question.

Is it easier to imagine it with your eyes open or closed?

5

I think I'm a 4, but I could be 5 and coping. I can't decide whether I'm imagining an apple or imagining that I'm imagining an apple.

Probably a 3.

Unless I have nightmares, then it gets hyperrealistic and off the scales like I can see the the mushroom cloud of the nuke going off.

Edit: To add to this, I hate reading books, its just not enjoyable for me, for the most part. I need visual media to understand. whats going on.

I guess 1 and 4. When I see or hear the word apple, I don't picture anything, I just understand the word. But when I'm prompted to picture an apple in my head, I can fully see any type of apple I can remember encountering. The moving image in my head currently has the color/texture of water paint (and some oil), but I think that's more because I'm pretty stoned

Does hyperphantasia count as 1 or 0?

5. I can't dream either, but I used to be able to.

4-5 typically.

1, but it's really really abstract and fuzzy.

0 or 1

4.5 on a very good day

I can do 1 but typically like a 3/4. My brain doesn’t generally consider color important unless it’s a key feature. Like if you ask me to rotate an object in my head for maintenance then its bare bones almost could consider it a wire mesh. But if it was a perfect sphere but with colored sections then I would see the colors because it’s the main way to orient it.

1 or less I think. My mind also populated scenery in addition to the apple (a walnut stained table it was on outdoors).

Probably 4. I technically have an imagination since I did pass that psy test where you interpret stories from image boards (according to my last psych eval), but my imagination is pretty weak