Realised it this morning

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Unless you have aphantasia. People with aphantasia are unable to mentally visualize. I close my eyes and it’s just blackness all the time.

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I can’t visualize a tetris block, much less a whole tetris game. I think I could draw all the tetris blocks if I tried so the information is there, just not stored as jpg. More like a zipped text file.

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Yeah I have the same thing. I can sort of visualize the concept, like foggy still images of tetris games I’ve played but I cannot imagine a game setup where a piece would fall and complete a line. That is too specific. I can just do like general concepts, not specifics.

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So how you for ex, do you orient yourself in space? I visualize a map, and then position myself accordingly

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Aphantasia is very intriguing for me. Everytime I try to think about it, I just can’t picture it.

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I do it very often and I suck

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Yeah I didn’t go beyond 2 fulls lines

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I did it often when I was really into it. I had Tetris dreams, it honestly was cool.

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This phenomenon is literally called the tetris effect haha

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Also, the title of one of the best Tetris games released ever. The visual and musical artistry in that game is astounding.

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In boring meetings, I play Arkanoid with things around me.

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I can certainly play the Tetris theme in my head!

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