I've got this!

I've always been terrible at conjuring up mental images and have  found it quite frustrating over the years.

And it turns out I'm special!

Here's a link and a test:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34039054

I scored (a genuine) 5/40, making me very special.

I'm at the opposite end of the scale, 39 out of 40, suggestive of hyperphantasia.

I genuinely thought everyone had clear mental imagery. You live and learn. Interestingly though, I struggle to get a clear image in my minds eye with my eyes closed but can get a very vivid image in my mind when my eyes are open. I would have thought it would be the other way round as I would expect the actual image I'm looking at would distract me from what I'm trying to imagine in my mind but this is not so.

Our brains are fascinating, complex things and given how completely they define and determine who we are, it's incredible to think just how little we understand about them.

I love this type of stuff.

I can picture a perfect image of anyone i know in my head, I can hear their voice and everything.

I thought this was normal.

28 out of 40. Average. Typical. Most common.

interesting, I too am average, but found the person questions way easier than the sun questions...what does that say?

39/40
I also dream in technicolour, which I find very odd.

It's weird.

My car's been at the repair garage for a week now and I've just tried picturing it.

All I get are brief snippets of what it looks like but I can't picture it as a whole.

I know it's blue, but I get the impression that I'm "sensing" that, rather than seeing it in my mind's eye.

Same with Burnden.

I can "remember" certain bits of the place like how it looked from the Manny Rd car park or what the Paddock was like on a match day, but the images are fleeting and faint and it feels like they're appearing at the back of my brain and I can't just shut my eyes and visualise the place in its entirety. 

And I can't visualise standing in the centre circle and doing a 360 pan round.

It just doesn't happen.

It seems I'm remembering very weak images and can't create new ones.

Odd now I actually think about it.

I scored 39.

I was thinking about Burnden the other week.
Not only can I see it clearly,I can smell it. A sort of rum/whiskey and tobacco smoke aroma.
Funny how smells affect you. One sniff of a Beano Annual takes me back to my childhood in an instant.

boltonbonce wrote:I was thinking about Burnden the other week.
Not only can I see it clearly,I can smell it. A sort of rum/whiskey and tobacco smoke aroma.
Funny how smells affect you. One sniff of a Beano Annual takes me back to my childhood in an instant.

I loved burnden, I like looking at the photos.

Maybe if the Reebok ever gets rumbled, I might miss that.

But all Bolton's history is Burnden Park.

You can never take that away.

boltonbonce wrote:I was thinking about Burnden the other week.
Not only can I see it clearly,I can smell it. A sort of rum/whiskey and tobacco smoke aroma.
Funny how smells affect you. One sniff of a Beano Annual takes me back to my childhood in an instant.

It's marzipan for me.

My Mum used to make wedding cakes for Mollie Bentham's when I was small and even now, if I smell it, I'm six again.

Strange but comforting.

I have an old Zeus book which I got on the first day of my apprenticeship, it's in my desk at work cos it's a handy piece of kit. It has a "machine shop" smell and every sniff takes me back to the day I got it as a 16 year old.
Tremendous.