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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9293808" data-attributes="member: 7044704"><p>Anecdotally from a friend, yes, but different senses are more or less involved from case to case, even with the same person. I know I don't generally imagine things using a single sense even when there should be only one involved. Tell me to envision an apple and I get apple #1 in the OP as a fleeting mental image unless I strain to keep it "up" in my mind, but it also comes with the scent and feel and taste of an apple - and "hearing" that crunch when you bite into one is just one more step in the process. I generally can't fully disentangle my sense memories and tend to get many all at once with that kind of exercise.</p><p></p><p>Completely novel imaginary things (eg the frumious bandersnatch from Jabberwocky, before reading any of the many explanations of the thing) get a vague mix of sensory impressions as my brain tries to piece something together from context and past experience - a sort of quantum state of imagination which collapses in on itself if/when more detail is provided. Visual and olfactory details seem to be most meaningful in my case, although sometimes tactile cues are stronger influences than either. The older I've gotten the more firm the initial "guess" has become (even when it turns out to be completely wrong), probably because I've got more memories to pull from and more practice at discerning context.</p><p></p><p>TL;DR People think differently from one another and often don't realize it, which is probably grounds for a lot of confusion and misery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9293808, member: 7044704"] Anecdotally from a friend, yes, but different senses are more or less involved from case to case, even with the same person. I know I don't generally imagine things using a single sense even when there should be only one involved. Tell me to envision an apple and I get apple #1 in the OP as a fleeting mental image unless I strain to keep it "up" in my mind, but it also comes with the scent and feel and taste of an apple - and "hearing" that crunch when you bite into one is just one more step in the process. I generally can't fully disentangle my sense memories and tend to get many all at once with that kind of exercise. Completely novel imaginary things (eg the frumious bandersnatch from Jabberwocky, before reading any of the many explanations of the thing) get a vague mix of sensory impressions as my brain tries to piece something together from context and past experience - a sort of quantum state of imagination which collapses in on itself if/when more detail is provided. Visual and olfactory details seem to be most meaningful in my case, although sometimes tactile cues are stronger influences than either. The older I've gotten the more firm the initial "guess" has become (even when it turns out to be completely wrong), probably because I've got more memories to pull from and more practice at discerning context. TL;DR People think differently from one another and often don't realize it, which is probably grounds for a lot of confusion and misery. [/QUOTE]
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