What Does Your Imagination Look Like?

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Published 2021-01-12
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for providing the intro illustrations.

Sources:
Where most of the information for this video was found: www.nature.com/news/brain-decoding-reading-minds-1…

www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/world/asia/15brainscan.…
gallantlab.org/brain-decoding/
   • It's Not Mind-Reading, but Scientists...  
theconversation.com/blind-in-the-mind-why-some-peo…
www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/aphantasia-lif…
   • Reading minds  
   • Vision Reconstruction (The Science of...  
www.legends.report/the-incredible-imagination-of-n….
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-invented-a-mi…

Music in Order of Appearence:
Aphex Twin - Curtains
PilotRedSun- fleece sbowkbs
Windows 96 - Hypnosis
Haircuts for Men - 手紙, は保つ
Red Haze - Neon Lights
Haircuts for Men - 夜の愛情
Pilotredsun - Death by Ecliptic Eye
Tobacco - Road Warrior Pisces
Наукоград - Звездопад
Tobacco - Refbatch

All Comments (21)
  • @neh6911
    He started with browsing deviant art And now he's turning into Vsauce
  • @C_to_the_S
    That guy moving his mouth throughout the video almost looks like he’s lip syncing with Sands’ vocals perfectly.
  • @reggie8370
    Rose= six inches with convoluted red form with a linear green attachment Glove= continuous brown form with folds Wife= hat
  • @bowieinc
    I have aphantasia, yet I dream in full color. My whole life when I’d hear people say “imagine your relaxing on a beach” or count sheep jumping a fence”, I didn’t know they could actually “watch the movie” in their head. One advantage of having aphantasia is when I lay down to go to sleep, I see perfect pitch black and have no visual distractions. I loved your imagine truth and justice examples, I will use those to explain to people what I see in the future. If I lay still and try really hard, I can sometimes visualize simple objects for a fleeting moment. The best what I can describe it is like when you close your eyes after someone shines a flash light in your eyes and that bright image fades away quickly.
  • @nacnud2115
    everyone is talking about the face reveal but I just saw a hat.
  • @Corvus_Erectus
    I don’t know why, but the most interesting part of this video to me is that Solar Sands is an actual human and not a weird vocaloid
  • @Duda-tg2pi
    the best way i can describe how my mind works with aphantasia is: imagine you have a computer where you can research any info you want, including images and videos but the screen is painted black, u can't actually SEE anything but somehow you still have access to all the info that the computer gives you, you are still able to understand perfectly any image that is showed in the computer, u just dont literally see anything :')
  • @brandonm8901
    I will never understand the concept of "seeing" things purely by imagining. The closest I can get is dreaming but that still seems like a long way from consciously deciding to picture an image in front of you whilst being disconnected from it
  • @BupiDoodles
    Wait... Solar Sands' face isn't just a hourglass. It's all a lie-
  • Solar sands before: This art is bad, no you cant see my face Solar sands now: What if we can read your mind
  • as a person with aphantasisa, I wanted to try an experiment. I drew a simple cartoony cat, then took a good look at it, closed my eyes, and tried to draw it. It looked like a zucchini. I kept trying, and I got kind of close to drawing it perfectly. The only reason I was able to draw it was not because I was imagining an image in my head, but because I could (non-visually) remember where the pencil marks were.
  • @witherbomb47
    I think that the recent DALL-E AI is quite close to creating this. One thing to remember is that dreams are rarely (With exceptions) in high detail, often all that's present in your "Dream vision" is the thing in a room that you're focusing on. It's not crazy high res like 8k or anything of that sort.
  • It took me a minute to realize that the mouth of the guy talking in a closet was synchronized with the audio of the video.
  • @spinebones8747
    The shock I felt when he casually appeared on screen. The amount of swag he exudes, I am swooning
  • As someone with Aphantasia myself, on the scale of 'nearly nothing' in mental imagery, I can say it's a little complicated and depends on how the person is centered. I am centered around the 'feel' of a place, person, or thing. Not actual touch, but an impression of it. A person can have a warm 'feeling' about them, and your home can 'feel' safe. I go largely off of that, myself. I'm sure other people go based off of other things.
  • @KiemPlant
    As a child I remember everything I thought about being something visual. When I thought of someone I would see their faces and they would be moving, like running for example. I could vividly see everything I thought about, for example a rubber duck. When thinking of something I would also quite literally see the words I was thinking about as if I was reading them. Nowadays I don't know if I still have that. Like I think I do but whenever I force myself to do it it doesn't really work. I can imagine things very well, but it's not the same anymore. The more I think about this I get more and more crazy.
  • @secretlywubzei
    He’s wearing big sunglasses because he’s hiding his third eye
  • @Rybz
    So you're telling me he could identify his brother by his teeth but mistaken children for a water hydrant
  • @SacarouK
    I can only imagine an image so long as I’ve seen that exact object “Imagine an apple” imagines apple slices on paper towel “Now rotate the apple” “What?”
  • @GiGitteru
    I can imagine an apple on a table with details while spinning, but the entire image is always at like 50% transparency. If I imagine it with my eyes closed, it'll have like a dark layer on it making it duller. If I imagine it while looking at something bright/white, it'll have a layer of white over it.