My imagination is pretty good, I think. My ability to imagine audio is just about perfect. It's like listening to something with earbuds. Visual stuff is like a 4/5. I can imagine and manipulate things the same way you might interact and manipulate things in Blender, or gmod, or the funny faec from Mario 64. But through all that there's still a foggy veil that prevents me from seeing things with all the details filled in -- at least when it comes to 3D. If I'm imagining something in 3D, it's almost like my brain renders scenes in wireframe/PS2 mode, but for 2D "raster" images there's color and clarity just fine. Like, imagining an airplane that I can manipulate in 3D space is kinda low detail, but if I just imagine "747 from a single viewpoint" it fills in with decent quality and full color. Orientation/movement kinda falls in with that stuff, so it's fairly easy too.
The rest is a bit more mixed. With taste and smell I can really only imagine things that I've experienced before, like the smell of coffee or strawberry shampoo, but I struggle to imagine a smell or taste describing something I've never encountered in the fashion I can imagine and construct music or visuals from nothing. Imagining touch is pretty poor. I know what things feel like, of course, but I can't imagine the sensation of softness or roughness. Pain isn't on there, but I can imagine that just fine, not that I want too... Temperature is maybe a little bit better than touch because it typically merges with pain; I can imagine the biting coldness, or feeling of touching something scalding hot.
I can imagine an apple. I can spin it around, throw it with physics and imagine it bouncing like a rubber ball. I can imagine stretching the apple into an egg shape. I can imagine too many apples to count, falling into a pile like spawn a bunch of items in a video game. I can imagine the sensation of taking a bite, the sound it makes when doing so, the slight hardness and sudden shearing as a bit fills my mouth, and then the crisp, sweet, and slightly acidic taste. A great frustration of mine has always been having the ability to imagine in all this detail and not being able to draw particularly well.
>>5936>it's just not the same level of "immersion" you get from dreamingYeah, definitely.
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