>>13071184Not him but I'll answer,
1. I usually visualize things as 'somewhere else', although this space doesn't overlap with reality I still have the feeling that it is to my left and back somewhere. I can overlay visuals on top of reality too, this is usually what I'm doing if I close my eyes and picture things.
2. I would probably suggest starting with trying to visualize on top of one's real visual perception with eyes closed, start with trying to draw a white line with light, if the effort results in an internal monologue about the task, then you've done it wrong, the effort of such thought interferes with visualizing, it's possible to do both but I find it sort of like rubbing your head and patting your tummy. I have no clue about how to use the space separate from reality, I've had that as long as I can remember.
3. It's not quite the same as seeing, but it's closer to that than abstract reasoning, if I know that something is behind a chair, I generally don't visualize it, just know that it's there. Same as if I'm considering something, like whether a friend would like a song I like, it does no help yo visualize them listening to it because I could visualize them liking it or hating it, that just goes back to a pre-logical substrate that makes a judgment between my friend's tastes as I know them and the song. Basically reasoning and visualization are totally separate, and unless what I'm reasoning through is mechanical in nature visualizing won't help.
4. Colors are generally a little washed out with eyes open, not much else.
5. As a young kid, maybe 5 or 6? Back then the visualizations never stopped, I'd watch morphing cityscapes go by for hours.
6. oldest, one younger brother
7.Quite a bit of tv, little bit of videogames, I read a lot and it's funny to see people being like 'wHoOaH you can't see books when you read them???' because even though I can I usually don't, I'm just abstractly absorbing the characters and what's happening to them.
