It seems pretty interesting, but also seems like it would take a lot of time to practice for uncertain benefits. I wonder about the applications. Reading through the link a bit, it mentioned learning echolocation or inducing lucid dreams, which could be fun.
I thought the exercise with crossing the red and blue circles was interesting. It said one could eventually learn to see a figure in one color with the other color as the background. I wonder if it’s possible to teach an aphantasiac to visualize this way. Would they have to be staring at the circles for that to work, or could they eventually learn to visualize without them? Also, if it’s possible to learn to quickly and easily enter and exit a lucid dream state, that might work even better, although only a subset of aphantasiacs even have visual dreams.
I also wonder if savant skills can be learned this way.
It seems pretty interesting, but also seems like it would take a lot of time to practice for uncertain benefits. I wonder about the applications. Reading through the link a bit, it mentioned learning echolocation or inducing lucid dreams, which could be fun.
I thought the exercise with crossing the red and blue circles was interesting. It said one could eventually learn to see a figure in one color with the other color as the background. I wonder if it’s possible to teach an aphantasiac to visualize this way. Would they have to be staring at the circles for that to work, or could they eventually learn to visualize without them? Also, if it’s possible to learn to quickly and easily enter and exit a lucid dream state, that might work even better, although only a subset of aphantasiacs even have visual dreams.
I also wonder if savant skills can be learned this way.