In a lot of ways, my memories aren't very vivid. I think the easiest way for me to describe things I remember is like finding something in a database. If I had to remember how I saw a thing, it would essentially be a list of categories with traits.
Like for pets, I can remember things about them such as: names, what colors they are/were, sometimes the specific tank they lived in(for fish), rough timeframe that they were alive(the more time has passed, the less precise), any related stories/experiences. Granted, I have had a lot of fish so I only remember a handful of them. I also find that certain things/places are tied with specific emotions that I tend to relive when I think about them. Words also have feelings associated with them. When I do write stories or poetry, I use how the words make me feel instead of anything visual.
For events, I do remember rough timelines, who was there, anything I found odd or stuck out to me, what I was thinking/feeling, things like that. But I also remember where things were in my field of vision, as well as where they were in relation to other things. I would probably be able to draw a reasonably accurate floorplan of my grandparent's house on the inside, but nowhere I haven't frequently or recently been.
All things considered, I feel like my memory is really advantageous in some ways, but the fact that I have practically no capability to visualize impacted me pretty significantly early in life, especially in school. But now, I feel like I can deeply understand certain things at a conceptual level that memorization alone would have never given me. :D
Also, I don't think I have trypophobia, but I don't like looking at those kinds of images. Though one perk of having no visual memory is that I can't see those kinds of things in my head even if I tried.
Message Thread | This response ↓ Unexpected Delight (starting new thread because other too long) - Alyx April 11, 2022, 3:50 pm
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