Comment by andre_sanchez on Visual Mental Imagery Training · 2017-09-09T16:58:47.067Z · LW · GW

When I read fiction, it is very abstract. All the visual details are basically meaningless, unless I can link the words to some abstract concept. I can at best get a dim, faint, low definition, general sense of how some things should look like, but nothing even remotely close to a movie scene. When I dream, the visuals are a bit stronger but still not even remotely close to waking life vision, it is mostly a sense of narrative and flow of abstract concepts with low definition visuals to move it along. Note that I have myopia and I often don't wear glasses (I remember thinking that wearing glasses makes life hd), so my sense of what "waking life vision" is, isn't as high def as most people's.