This post would've been a good candidate for using the new poll feature...

Pretty good though I can only do a few senses at once. I spent a ton of time in my childhood through high school daydreaming so my imagination is pretty robust, but it's just not the same level of "immersion" you get from dreaming. If only I could manage to lucid dream successfully. Had a few close calls where I got to that realization but it's as if the mental pressure is too great and I wake up shortly after.

I have trouble identifying instruments and voice actors.
I prefer not knowing how my food is cooked so I don't get disgusted.
Temperature... hot things remind me of fire and cold things remind me of ice cubes. What am I missing?

I have an IQ of about 130 and I'm good at everything

Sometimes I wonder if I'd be worse or better off without it.
Would I be worse because I can't imagine the things I love? I wouldn't want to be someone who needs to look at an image to see them.
Or would I be better off because I wouldn't know the pain of being unable to obtain the things I fantasize about? Like, I can imagine hugging my 2wife in her lap, breathing in her scent and feeling the warmth of her soft body and hearing her voice, but then I'm still here, hugging my pillow trying to create a shred of the real feeling. There's still that last barrier you can't cross so long as you're conscious. It fucking sucks.
At least doing that gets my heart rate down low and slow, really calms me down. If only it didn't leave a void…

I can imagine visual and audio decently, and can act out scenarios in my head if I concentrate, which is really fun. I find it's easiest to do it in bed or when I'm half asleep where there's less noise and distractions (I use ear plugs and an eye mask usually too). Smell, taste and temperature aren't really things that I do in them, so I'm not very good at those. Touch isn't easy and I do have trouble with details and faces.
Also I think there might be miscommunication with this, like people think they might have aphantasia because they don't see through their eyes.

>>5936
Lucid dreaming is something I've been trying to do more, with some success. I think I've had some before through getting lucky. But doing reality checks (pinching nose and seeing if you can breathe), telling myself before sleep I'll recall my dreams and writing them down seems to have made me get a few more often. I still wake myself up a lot and I'm not sure if they're proper lucid dreams because they don't feel like I'm in them like reality, they're just vivid and I have some control over them.

>>5935
It would NOT have because you wouldn't have been able to tell how many people have good or crappy senses, just the overall average, which is MEANINGLESS.

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 dreaming
Yeah, definitely.

>it's as if the mental pressure is too great and I wake up shortly after.
I've heard this is because of an anxiety response. You get excite at the prospect, which causes your heart to race and all that, which inadvertently wakes you up.

>>5940
>I'm not sure if they're proper lucid dreams because they don't feel like I'm in them like reality, they're just vivid and I have some control over them.
I have the same experience. When I've dreamed lately they're very vivid, but I'm not really sure whether I'm in control. My thoughts and behavior is more "instinctual" and responsive than it is directed and conscious. I can typically dream of things I want to dream about, often of the lewd variety, but I don't really have any conscious input. It's more like I'm dreaming about what I want to dream about because I want to dream about it instead of directing how things in the dream happen lucidly --- if that makes any sense...

>people think they might have aphantasia because they don't see through their eyes.
I'm not sure about other people, but when I visualize things they occupy a space slightly above my head. I definitely can't see things I imagine through my physical eyes. The only time I've ever literally seen things with my actual eyes that were not there was after waking up with sleep paralysis and seeing zigzag lines from a migraine aura. Obviously not something I was intentionally imagining.

>>5939
>Sometimes I wonder if I'd be worse or better off without it.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. I'm content imagining things with all my senses of things that I've yet to experience or want to, and I'd imagine I'd be much more lonesome if I couldn't imagine anything at all.

>doing that gets my heart rate down low and slow, really calms me down.
Cute

>>5937
I can recognize all these things just fine, but if you tell me to feel their sensations in their absence then I don't get anything.

>>5942
>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.
This! It's fucking this! It's like I have stupid fingers lucky enough to master a belt buckle. All these great images and scenes in my head yet I can't get them out of my head and put them to paper. Though, there's something to be said for the people using AI as a crutch to trace from and generate something that is just about what you were imagining. That's something to look into and dissect to maybe get your foot in the door to draw on your own.
>Cute
Just imagine yourself in this situation. It's as easy as that.

How are you supposed to know what "good", "modest", or "bad" imagination really means?
What experience do you have it to compare it to?
Isn't this perhaps a fundamental methodology problem? Perhaps something like this >>5936 , but for the other senses, would be the way. Does that exist? Searching for "aneuralia test" lends me nothing.
Of course, there is also value in simple self-reporting.