Write a short paragraph ...Imagine you are a blind person .
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I was born blind in my left eye, and could see until four with my right eye. Nowadays I am completely blind, and can not even remember colors, something that my parents told me that I was able to identify.
I made the same question to myself: how do we blind people imagine stuff? -- because I was reading the book - monwalking with Einstein. In the book, which talks about a lot about memory, and the so famous memory palace technique, I wanted to test it. But, was the thing that I was imagining the
same image as sighted people imagine?
I was pretty sure that it was different. I don't think about colors, perspective (I can not understand a cube drawn on a paper, for example, it does not make sense to me), I don't even imagine things in different sizes based on their distance.
I realized while thinking about this that it is really hard to explain, because I don't know, or at least don't remember, how it is to imagine the world when you have vision.
when practicing the memory palace technique though, I found some interesting things about my memory. I was able to create a 50-location memory palace in a day. This is my spatial memory kicking in, and this one, needs to be really good in order to help me locate myself in when I walk alone in known places. the second part of the memory palace technique involves creating images that will stick. images that you will remember, that are unique and memorable.
I created a lot of them and memorized a lot of stuff. But what are they, if they are not "real"images?
I noticed that I work a lot in terms of shapes that connect to each other. I try to use patterns of things that I know to create things that I don't know. When I needed to imagine a man that was tiny, I used one of my action figures in its place. I could clearly imagine this shape in the scenes that I was creating, and that was not based on touch - it was not the feeling of touch, at least.
Reflecting more on the subject, I got the impression that besides the basic shapes that I use as building blocks to more complex things, the spatial component was the most important one. I often omitted details of things that I was imagining, because they were not relevant to remember that thing. But I always kept their size, their relation to other things, they place in space, their orientation, very precise. Maybe because this is how I try to imagine my surroundings, to be able to walk alone.
So, the things that I imagine normally don't have that much detail, although I can add them when i want. They don't have color either. They are a model of the world, not a perfect representation. But it is working pretty well so far.
I hope that this make sense!