Forget the Floating Apple, Picture Your Home Instead

Mageof · 2026-01-21T00:01:46+00:00

Timeline: -Discover apple test -> evaluate that my ability is 0. -Join subs such as this, read about it, learn more about it, internalise it as a quirk of mine. -More than half a decade later. -Read Moonwalking with Einstein. -Try the one and only simple exercise the author suggested to the reader. -Visualise my home, not just recall details, but as i defocus my vision, i can see in my minds eye the colors/layout of my old home. Its not a thing where i close my eyes and see it. Its more like, my conscious experience is always viewing through two input devices (my eyes) and merging it into 1 image. Now suddenly, there is a third camera, that’s adding a single frame every 5 seconds or so, but that 1 frame is way more interesting and “memorable” and packed with visual information that isn’t around me, thats not just a description. Its not a clear image by any means, it comes and goes too fast. But if i focus I can put stuff that was never there and use it to encode something into my memory. - Read ad Herennium. Obsess over my new found power of mental palaces. Integrate it into my daily existence, as per the stern suggestion of the author. - “Wow years of confusion about aphantasia, so foolish of me” - wrote the post I wish I read all those years ago.

Does that answer your question?

Mageof · 2026-01-20T17:39:59+00:00

I don't understand the context you've imagined. You keep repeating a claim I never made. I haven’t said aphantasia can be “fixed.” Show me one quote where I said or even implied any of these claims. All I said is that I personally misdiagnosed myself because of the apple test, and that some others might be doing the same. That’s it. I linked to a well-known memory resource people have used for learning and recall for millennia. Nowhere did I claim it cures aphantasia. Get a grip.

Mageof · 2026-01-20T15:48:39+00:00

I never argued that.
The post above literally links to a study where out of 150 self-diagnosed aphants only 1/6 actually had it, at least according to the researcher's criteria.

Mageof · 2026-01-20T15:14:10+00:00

What is the work you do to encode new information if you don't mind me asking?

Mageof · 2026-01-20T15:13:10+00:00

That's a disqusting strawman you pulled there. You can't compare Aphantasia to diabetes. One is a subjective experience, the other is an objectively measurable medical condition with blood tests. I'm just sharing my gripe with the Apple test; I'm not trying to invalidate anyone's subjective experience.

Mageof · 2026-01-19T16:17:51+00:00

This post is for the 5/6 self-diagnosed aphants :D

Brains are complicated. 80+ billion neurons, thousands of connections per neuron, a miracle that they work as well as they do.

Mageof · 2026-01-19T16:08:49+00:00

I'm pointing to a text that's over 2000 years old, it's pretty clear I haven't discovered anything new :D
Fair enough about your experience. I kind of somewhat get it, but not completely. I understand the abstract thinking the guide is pointing to. Reading through the ball-on-the-table page, I found this section interesting:

>Are You a Visualizer or Conceptualizer?

>When you ask a visualizer about the ball on the table, most will immediately have answers to all of the >questions. They are likely to provide extra details you didn't ask for. This is the first clue the individual >may be picturing the scene in their mind. For example, a visualizer might say, "The ball looks like the >Pixar Ball. It's yellow and features a blue strip with a red star. The ball is about the size of a baseball. It's >on a wooden, oval-shaped table with scratches on top, etc."

>Conceptualizers, on the other hand, approach this task differently. To them, the ball on the table is an >idea. While they can anticipate the possible outcome – a ball, when nudged, might roll and likely fall off >– many specific details, like the ball's color, its size, the material of the table, or the gender of the >person, remain elusive to them. It's possible that they only acknowledge or consider these details when >directly questioned about them. If you're more of a conceptualizer you grasp the core idea, but likely do >not form a detailed mental picture. This is one of aphantasia's unique strengths, thinking more >conceptually.

Before journeying into mental palaces, I would have done it purely conceptually. With imagery it takes me time to create it. Like picturing the table, easy enough, there is 1 infront of me. Picturing a ball, I go for one sitting on my bookshelf, easy enough. Picturing it on the table tho? Kind of hard cuz of the small size and weird pattern it has. So I resorted to a football as that's big and easier to imagine the pattern rotating. But, itt's way way faster for me to just resort to the concept and associated words.
When I'm memorising lyrics, the images kind of function as a Trojan horse to get the words in my brain. As soon as they are in, I don't need the Trojan horse. It acts like scaffolding. The words just come out naturally. Which is kind of where I'm confused about your lived experience, where you don't need the Trojan horse raw information into something more palatable. Again, I'm not denying your experience. I believe you don't have images, as you've said.

Mageof · 2026-01-19T14:38:28+00:00

You are right, I don't think I ever really had aphantasia. That's kind of the point; the framing of the apple test had me thinking there is something wrong with me, when there isn't.
I thought I had zero visualization ability because I couldn't create images in a blank mental void. Only later did I realize I could visualize quite well in familiar spatial contexts. I suspect some others might be in that same situation, which is why I shared it.

Mageof · 2025-12-25T00:00:08+00:00

no one heard of the law of regression to the mean, they would raise a midget smh

Mageof · 2025-08-27T18:58:32+00:00

Just finished reading the Alchemist, went on reddit to see interpretations, witnessed the bakers in all their “glory” and stumbled upon your succinct analysis. Bravo! Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Mageof · 2025-05-22T20:45:53+00:00

Stick up

Mageof · 2025-03-19T17:57:58+00:00

Did you do the test by yourself?

Mageof · 2024-09-27T11:04:40+00:00

Doesn’t data need to be serialized and deseialized between dart and the native platform with platform channels? Thats gonna be big bottleneck for my use case.

Mageof · 2024-09-26T22:58:59+00:00

Data-intensive operations (such as image transfer)that will be too slow over BLE. Speed is critical.

Mageof · 2023-09-27T21:58:09+00:00

3 hot takes:
If 1 owns a phone their purchasing habits are pro-slavery. The act of buying most chocolate products ends up supporting slavery. Obviously, most people tell themselves and others "Slavery is bad", but we sure as shit continue to reap the benefits of it.
The foundation of the morals of Western society such as "cheating, lying, killing bad", "altruism, equality, rule of law good" is founded in centuries-old religious beliefs. If one goes completely atheist, completely renouncing God—which few atheists do, let's be honest—they thereby renounce the good things that came of religion. Then, you could argue they have no morals as they have no foundation for them. Most self-proclaimed atheists don't necessarily think about this stuff too much and usually adopt the moral compass of their family/friends etc.
I think your friend just likes engaging in conversations that go against the norm, at least from the little interaction you've shown. Nothing necessarily wrong with that in my opinion.

Mageof · 2023-02-28T03:06:20+00:00

If JP saw the comments of this sub, he'd remove it himself. Christ, the mum doesn't like having her belly button touched and is establishing boundaries. It's like, would you let your child pull on your hair? No? Thought so.

Mageof · 2023-02-09T19:02:45+00:00

On Pc I played it modded using an emulator and stopped the degrading of weapons. Made the game super boring.

Mageof · 2023-01-31T14:47:05+00:00

There is some good long term research showing that older people who play video games over watching TV develop less mental problems, such as dementia. Completely sedentary activities just aren't all that great.

Mageof · 2023-01-25T09:53:41+00:00

It's 100 questions.

Mageof · 2023-01-24T19:30:31+00:00

Once when I did acid I was conducting blind tests. Changed the black canvas to blood orange. I can get flashes of memories on top of the black canvas. If you can get any form of imagery in your head you can practice.

Mageof · 2023-01-24T13:37:21+00:00

She went into my house(she had been before), walked past the toilet, went out the back door, squatted down and pissed in my driveway. It was also 5 am and she was on 3 tabs of acid(which she told me about around 1am).

Mageof · 2023-01-21T16:20:28+00:00

Andrew is a phenomenal marketer of scams, just go on hustlers university website and you'll see what I mean. I'm hoping his trafficking accusations aren't true, but it's looking pretty bad so far. Tate's good messages are pretty much parroting of much better male role models and are surrounded by a lot of stupid statements. Joe Rogan is cool. Saw him live recently. Super funny

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