Watching Spencer draw like that makes me realise that it's actually possible for real human beings to do it. Not that Spencer qualifies, but there's a process to it. It's not just a magic thing that happens when certain people do art.
Karina said she could hear an apple before she saw it in her mind and then Julia dropped her phone. My first reaction was, "that's not the sound i would hear when i imagine an apple."
was eating soup, blowing on it because it was a little hot, and I hear "I'm going to draw Freddy Fazbear" and I was so unprepared to hear that that I blew soup on to my keyboard.
I’ll be back because I need food 😩 00:02:01 The ooohs start 00:03:38 Their voices start 00:03:46 They have appeared 00:08:45 The mug drawing starts 00:16:10 The first non mug drawing starts 00:30:00 The second drawing starts 00:45:23 The third drawing starts 01:08:03 The fourth drawing starts 01:39:31 The fifth drawing starts 01:51:58 PORF
Ya know, I always listen to the intro at the beginning of vods but like, sometimes I just have to take a step back to appreciate how actually amazingly well produced it is. This track is genuinely fire.
@recurvestickerdragon I kind of really like the 1.5 version now as it's own thing. It's like anime battle music as the protagonist gets self confidence.
I have hyperfantasia too. As a kid, any time I was riding in a car, I would project Sonic the Hedgehog or Pokemon characters running alongside the car and jumping on the buildings and trees.
Guess it says a lot about me that I was imagining the Ringwraiths on horseback rather than Sonic. I think I didn't even know about Sonic until I was nearly adult.
I also have hyperphantasia and prophantasia, I didn’t realize until now that even among people who could see the apple, there’s a smaller group who can see the apple in the room with you. I can imagine the apple in its own plane of existence as well as in the room. I hadn’t realized that it’s apparently rare.
I was having such a bad day and then I saw tears magically appear on Freddy Fazbear and it made me laugh so hard that I too started crying. I needed that, thank you so much. 😂
are we talking Abt visualization? Bc I can't see shit but I can recall a lot of facts Abt how apples can look. I can assemble an apple in my head using the pieces I know it comes in, I just can't see what I'm doing
I don't know where exactly on the (a)phantasia scale I land. I can only vaguely form mental images, and I can vaguely mentally project them in front of me, but they're not stable images. When I try to imagine the apple, it's basically a constantly shifting amalgamation of every apple I've ever seen all at once. I've never been very good with coming up with wholly original concepts for anything, and I guess the way I imagine stuff is just an extension of that.
you remember when they drew Star Fox, and they inserted Tristan looking flustered but happy as he stared in attraction...? that face, that energy, that vibe, that mood
Is this how I learn that I have hyperphantasia? Also is there an equivalent for other senses? Because yeah I can "project" the apple, but I can also _feel_ it in my hand, _smell_ it, _taste_ it (flavour and texture) etc etc. In all probability it is merely a mixture of good sensorial memory and the ability to use that information to "recreate" the combined sensations into a "projected" apple. Perception is a pretty feckin' insteresting object-of-study. Just to clarify: It's not just apples. It is thankfully not an apple-exclusive ability. That'd be pretty boring.
My ability to visualize 'the apple' is not always the same all the time. Maybe its because of my ADHD, and my varying levels of active memory. Sometimes it can be as bad as an outline, sometimes it can be hyperfantasia levels.
okay yes this !! i realized while i was talking about it that i can visualize extremely clearly when im not trying, like when im reading or daydreaming, i can basically watch movies in my head, but when i consciously try to visualize its very unclear and simple. i also have adhd, not really sure if that contributes to it but i related and its something our experiences had in common lol
Anyone know what it means to be able to picture an apple but only be able to hold it for half a second before your silly brain decides it's time to move on?
SAME my brain is like here's a split second view of an apple, now it's gone forever you're not allowed to imagine it anymore and you'll take psychic damage if you keep trying !! ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
1:32:51 there Is a song called crazytown ! it’s from a musical called 35mm where all the songs are unconnected and are each based on photographs ! every possible trigger warning if you want to listen to them though
because I'm always curious when i watch the VODs! The hint Karina gave about rotating a blorbo in a different way is a reference to today's episode! Four Artists Redraw Their Favorite Anime Screencaps (hopefully i got the title right 😅)
Episode idea: each artist draws an overlapping component of the drawing (figure, effects, background) either simultaneously or by passing it along to the next artist with no context
I can vaguely see the apple but not in real space and if I concentrate on any part the rest goes away. I can rotate it in my head though, and I can rotate any object in my head, especially if I’m looking at it.
I've started watching a lot of stream VODs at 1.25x speed and I gotta say there's something extra special about all of them laughing just a little unnaturally fast and I recommend all of you do it as well
1:28:27 omg i literally said "a thinger for finger" at the exact same time as jacob did in the exact same way.... drawfee you have rotted my brain (ノωヽ)
Never knew bout hyperfantasia I'll have to look into that, as for aphantasia it's both an interesting and frustrating thing once you realize that everyone else in the world doesn't operate in the dark room you do. Its annoying as an actor/writer as a lot of method encourages you an emotional specificity about the space a character inhabits, and almost all playwrighting exercise guides utilize automatic drawing/writing of your minds eye to build tangential connections / identify possible allegorical imagery. That all aside it is legit amazing the caliber of art you make Karina, wholestop. It is even wilder to think you turn out such rad art without the assist of internal visualizing. It shows in your construction and anatomy that you whole assed learned how muscles and bones interplay to make up the human body to the point you don't need visualization to know what bulges, creases, and shapes need to go where to get the form your aiming for. It's rad. You're rad. Yall keep being rad. ❤🌈🐙☕️
RubberRoss is another artist on RUclips with aphantasia. Hearing his story of how he realized his brain was wired differently than most people he knew was my first time learning aphantasia exists. Also, apparently some people don't hear their inner monologues or hear words they read in their head. That straight up sounds alien to me.
I get 2 episodes into Castlevania and you upload a Spencer stream? Okay, technically the stream happened a week before I started Castlevania, but still.
As someone with non-psychotic and non-delusional visual and auditory hallucinations I find it enlightening to hear that everybody can to some degree manifest non-existent objects in their vision or inner eye.
32:45 when i was a child my imaginary friend was a melloetta, specifically the one in the black and white anime, that followed me on the school bus home. i would literally force-project her eating lunch with me😭😭
Cant currently afford this workshop but I’d be very interested to take one in the future, please let us know any that come up even if you can’t drag Spencer onto stream
the apple conversation is hurting me psychologically as someone who CANNOT see the apple (I have aphantasia). please. not the apple. anything but the apple I cannot recover from the apple again.
26:37 Speaking of Hyperphantasia, there is actually a spectrum: Phantasia is what most people have, which is normal imaginary vision Aphantasia is having no imagination at all aka can't picture anything in your head (Which can also lead to never being able to easily remember faces or in an artists' case-can struggle with portraits or drawing from memory) Then there's the in betweens: Hypophantasia (Which I have) Is similar to Aphantasia but you can picture very little or the picture is low quality/simple And then of course Hyper is having a vivid imagination that can reach far past the typical imaginary process. For the longest time, I struggled with my Hypophantasia because I didn't know I had it, so I couldn't picture things often and if I did, it looked straight up like an old low poly game lol
If I try really hard I can imagine the apple on a place in my surroundings. But It’s like what I see is clipping between my reality of the things I see and my ability to imagine a thing being in that place I see. It’s weird. It’s like the worst strength projection ever.
There are 13 canon versions of Freddy Fazbear that I can think of right off and you managed to dodge all of them. This is Julia levels of "from memory"
When it comes to picturing things in my imagination, my mind is basically AI, yes I can picture let say a "purple castle" but it doesn't make much sense, some parts of it are probably breaking laws on physics, im not sure how many windows it has, i don't know the details of the door unless I actively try to imagine them. That was the one cool thing about AI images, I could finally compare it to something when explaining it to my friend.
What a weird way for me to learn, at the ripe old age of 28, that I also have hyperphantasia. How the hell did other kids experience imaginary friends???
I have to know now… does she not see anything in her head when she reads? Did she not have a little guy running alongside the car as a kid? Or an imaginary friend of any kind?
You’d be surprised, my brother-in-law’s brother also has aphantasia (all three of us have it), and he’s also an excellent artist. I’m more of a writer, so I’m not sure how he does it, but I tend to be very descriptive in my writings (I think because I feel I need a lot more info to set the scene) so I can see where that would be how he operates, too. As someone with aphantasia, I can say that I can’t picture anything when reading or having things described to me. It’s all more of a feeling and a generic concept than anything. I also didn’t have an imaginary friend. I didn’t find out that other people could see images in their mind’s eye until I was in my late 30s, so it kinda blew my mind that people actually had imaginary friends. Much like with most other visual representations in movies, I thought that was just visual shorthand to convey the internal structure of thought, not what people actually saw.
26:49 I can do that too!! :o I can also imagine how something would look if it was drawn, sketched while looking at it? And the thing is, I can see it but I also can't see it? because it's not actually there
whoa whoa whoa someone call the spencer department- i mean the fire dispenser- i mean call spencer- i mean call the drawfee department it’s FIRE
hey! it's my b-dYA DO not call me!
We need a dispenser riiight here.
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Fire Spenc oar
oh lord jesus it's a spencer
I can't believe they made Spencer remote in so that he couldn't cause a seltzer avalanche in Karina's imaginary friend's fridge.
Julia and Spencer’s art styles mesh so well together. It’s so pretty.
Watching Spencer draw like that makes me realise that it's actually possible for real human beings to do it. Not that Spencer qualifies, but there's a process to it. It's not just a magic thing that happens when certain people do art.
I totally get that... it's so weird to watch an animation fully knowing the name and face of the one (1!!!) person who made it
@@franz9850 It's more seeing it being done, but yeah, that too.
Karina said she could hear an apple before she saw it in her mind and then Julia dropped her phone. My first reaction was, "that's not the sound i would hear when i imagine an apple."
was eating soup, blowing on it because it was a little hot, and I hear "I'm going to draw Freddy Fazbear" and I was so unprepared to hear that that I blew soup on to my keyboard.
What a legend, writing this while your keyboard is covered in soup
update?
I'm sorry but they have passed away
/j
How’s your keyboard?
the chilchuck piece is unironically gorgeous. spencer's FX, karina's colors amd backlight ????? INSANE. karina and spencer you will always be famous
OMG WE HAVE BEEN GRACED BY SPENCER’S BEAUTY ONCE AGAIN 🫶🩵
his beauty only gets more radiant with each stream
He's actually got such a beautiful smile, and I hope he never sees this comment.
Damn beautiful man.
i have never laid eyes on a more beautiful man, (except for nathan and jacob of course)
i so badly want what Julia and Spencer did as a sticker or a poster like DAMN
I’ll be back because I need food 😩
00:02:01 The ooohs start
00:03:38 Their voices start
00:03:46 They have appeared
00:08:45 The mug drawing starts
00:16:10 The first non mug drawing starts
00:30:00 The second drawing starts
00:45:23 The third drawing starts
01:08:03 The fourth drawing starts
01:39:31 The fifth drawing starts
01:51:58 PORF
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I appreciate you for being a timestamper, I don't like the intro music until the ooohs start.
Thanks for the timestamps, hope your food was good!
@@ToweringToska💜💜💜
@@Lemon-Barkyou’re welcome and it was😁(Pasta and meatballs😋)
Ya know, I always listen to the intro at the beginning of vods but like, sometimes I just have to take a step back to appreciate how actually amazingly well produced it is. This track is genuinely fire.
This is the first VOD I'd watched in like 8 months and I raced to the comments SO FUCKING CONFUSED but like yeah its a bop what the hell?
@@judahc7586 Jacob did such a good job making it!
ever listen to it on 1.5 or double speed?
still a bop, but with such frantic energy, it makes me laugh
All of his music keeps on slapping, and it's incredible.
@recurvestickerdragon I kind of really like the 1.5 version now as it's own thing. It's like anime battle music as the protagonist gets self confidence.
33:50 apple bobby hill, boots with the fur
I have hyperfantasia too. As a kid, any time I was riding in a car, I would project Sonic the Hedgehog or Pokemon characters running alongside the car and jumping on the buildings and trees.
Oh my god, I used to do that too! I thought I was the only one!
Guess it says a lot about me that I was imagining the Ringwraiths on horseback rather than Sonic. I think I didn't even know about Sonic until I was nearly adult.
Watching this stream helped give a name to what my partner experiences!
Same!
Same! Mine was a lion who was also my imaginary friend. As I got older a dragon joined him.
Look to your left, look to your right, if you didn't see the apple it's because YOU are the apple.
kinda true, my aphantasia is usually just my voice saying "you know what an apple is, idiot"
I also have hyperphantasia and prophantasia, I didn’t realize until now that even among people who could see the apple, there’s a smaller group who can see the apple in the room with you. I can imagine the apple in its own plane of existence as well as in the room. I hadn’t realized that it’s apparently rare.
I was having such a bad day and then I saw tears magically appear on Freddy Fazbear and it made me laugh so hard that I too started crying. I needed that, thank you so much. 😂
This is super late but I hope you’re feeling better!
I’m Merobiba (currently on fire)
Oh no, she said more than "I'm Merobiba" this time, she's evolving
We must contain her while we have the chance
@@sparklefall687 the evolution is being on fire
If ye could be on fiah, would ye?
I wished my mom would not be a bear, and now she is on fire. Merobiba ye done it again.
@@sparklefall687 Run Merobiba be free!!! I'll hold them off as long as I can!
I don't "see" the apple so much as seeing the IDEA of the apple.
I see its density, rigidity, and inertia, with bounding boxes and a stippling of color samples
If I focus very hard, I see how the apple works in the composition, as well as the small textures sometimes, but nothing in between
Ceci n'est pas une pomme
I can only see one piece at a time. I'm not the best at composition...
are we talking Abt visualization? Bc I can't see shit but I can recall a lot of facts Abt how apples can look. I can assemble an apple in my head using the pieces I know it comes in, I just can't see what I'm doing
jacob saying things to the tune of the mario underground level music is one of my favorite bits to throw down IRL
but also Jukebox hero, TMNT theme, etc
@@recurvestickerdragon oh absolutely.
my brain for a while now has been demanding words be shoved into the "teenage wasteland" part from baba o'riley
I said "weeping from my nipples" to that tune a milisecond before he did and I nearly jumped out of my seat cheering
I don't know where exactly on the (a)phantasia scale I land. I can only vaguely form mental images, and I can vaguely mentally project them in front of me, but they're not stable images. When I try to imagine the apple, it's basically a constantly shifting amalgamation of every apple I've ever seen all at once. I've never been very good with coming up with wholly original concepts for anything, and I guess the way I imagine stuff is just an extension of that.
Is… is Spencer wearing a see-thru mesh tank top?… haha
Edit-he referenced his slutty tank top. Lucky us haha.
I was also going to immediately without thinking comment on Spencer's tits being out but stopped myself and then he just says it
you remember when they drew Star Fox, and they inserted Tristan looking flustered but happy as he stared in attraction...?
that face, that energy, that vibe, that mood
I swear ever since I started working at Buc-ees it haunts me everywhere I go now.
Great vibes and great drawings, hopefully this isn’t the last we see of Spencer on here
Is this how I learn that I have hyperphantasia? Also is there an equivalent for other senses? Because yeah I can "project" the apple, but I can also _feel_ it in my hand, _smell_ it, _taste_ it (flavour and texture) etc etc. In all probability it is merely a mixture of good sensorial memory and the ability to use that information to "recreate" the combined sensations into a "projected" apple. Perception is a pretty feckin' insteresting object-of-study.
Just to clarify: It's not just apples. It is thankfully not an apple-exclusive ability. That'd be pretty boring.
New superpower just dropped, I got bitten by a radioactive apple and can now conjure an illusion of one only I can interact with
@@sithdude2436 and it doesn't even fill my stomach! I can have an endless supply of apples and _still starve_
My ability to visualize 'the apple' is not always the same all the time. Maybe its because of my ADHD, and my varying levels of active memory. Sometimes it can be as bad as an outline, sometimes it can be hyperfantasia levels.
okay yes this !! i realized while i was talking about it that i can visualize extremely clearly when im not trying, like when im reading or daydreaming, i can basically watch movies in my head, but when i consciously try to visualize its very unclear and simple. i also have adhd, not really sure if that contributes to it but i related and its something our experiences had in common lol
Watching the stream and also watching the VOD, I'm just blown away by the Spencer/Julia collab on the Elden Ring character.
The theme song is such a bop. Jacob really nailed it.
Anyone know what it means to be able to picture an apple but only be able to hold it for half a second before your silly brain decides it's time to move on?
adhd; welcome to the club!
SAME my brain is like here's a split second view of an apple, now it's gone forever you're not allowed to imagine it anymore and you'll take psychic damage if you keep trying !! ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
Spencer and all of Drawfee are so amazingly skilled. Plus they’re all so enjoyable and funny I love watching them
Whenever Spencer appears on a stream, a natural disaster occours. First an avalanche, now fire.. i'm guessing a tsunami is next in line
Back here after Drawfee Thursday finally knowing what Karina had to rotate in her mind
I am signed up for Spencer's class so it better be a good class or I will tell my mom that it wasn't that good and she's gonna feel bad about that.
We've been getting so much Spencer!!! This one is Slutty tank top variant Spencer
We found his shiny
1:32:51 there Is a song called crazytown ! it’s from a musical called 35mm where all the songs are unconnected and are each based on photographs !
every possible trigger warning if you want to listen to them though
I never thought I’d see 35mm referenced in the wild. And on a Drawfee vod? Impossible.
Holy shit 35mm listener just out and about is crazy. Ive had leave luanne and the angel one on repeat for years
watching spencer draw is soooo satisfying
This stream made me discover that i have both Hyperphantasia and Prophantasia
because I'm always curious when i watch the VODs! The hint Karina gave about rotating a blorbo in a different way is a reference to today's episode! Four Artists Redraw Their Favorite Anime Screencaps (hopefully i got the title right 😅)
I swear a week doesn’t pass without Jacob and Nathan saying the same thing in the same way at once.
They're telepathically bonded 😂
I love this intro song. ♥
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It's pretty rad
try playing it at 1.25x speed.
not too much different, but a slightly more frantic energy
It's by Jacob! He made a whole EP called Two Week Vacation by Tummy Boy
@@swiftlymurmurs Yeah, he's quickly become really good!
Episode idea: each artist draws an overlapping component of the drawing (figure, effects, background) either simultaneously or by passing it along to the next artist with no context
So excited for the workshop and to be able to add sick effects to my art!!
the julia x spencer collab goes absolutely insane
This stream is so chill. I love it. Perfect for falling asleep to. Does anyone else play these VODs to fall asleep?
🤝
I can vaguely see the apple but not in real space and if I concentrate on any part the rest goes away. I can rotate it in my head though, and I can rotate any object in my head, especially if I’m looking at it.
I've started watching a lot of stream VODs at 1.25x speed and I gotta say there's something extra special about all of them laughing just a little unnaturally fast and I recommend all of you do it as well
I do this as well, its very good.
I can't believe they talked about THAT kesha joyride video. It's genuinely one of my most favourite videos this year
Alvin and the Chilchuck
1:28:27 omg i literally said "a thinger for finger" at the exact same time as jacob did in the exact same way.... drawfee you have rotted my brain
(ノωヽ)
"Your mind will be the Buc-ee's, with the yellow in the middle." -Jacob Drawfee.
I hope the meme mv of joyride becomes a regular for the future. It truly is a modern classic
it's really cool hearing about how karina also has aphantasia, the room analogy is really good and I'll use that going forward!
Karina and Spencer being aphantasia and hyperphantasia duo is so real actually
Never knew bout hyperfantasia I'll have to look into that, as for aphantasia it's both an interesting and frustrating thing once you realize that everyone else in the world doesn't operate in the dark room you do. Its annoying as an actor/writer as a lot of method encourages you an emotional specificity about the space a character inhabits, and almost all playwrighting exercise guides utilize automatic drawing/writing of your minds eye to build tangential connections / identify possible allegorical imagery.
That all aside it is legit amazing the caliber of art you make Karina, wholestop. It is even wilder to think you turn out such rad art without the assist of internal visualizing. It shows in your construction and anatomy that you whole assed learned how muscles and bones interplay to make up the human body to the point you don't need visualization to know what bulges, creases, and shapes need to go where to get the form your aiming for. It's rad. You're rad.
Yall keep being rad. ❤🌈🐙☕️
RubberRoss is another artist on RUclips with aphantasia. Hearing his story of how he realized his brain was wired differently than most people he knew was my first time learning aphantasia exists.
Also, apparently some people don't hear their inner monologues or hear words they read in their head. That straight up sounds alien to me.
Love a nice Soencer video. Drawfee guests rock
I get 2 episodes into Castlevania and you upload a Spencer stream?
Okay, technically the stream happened a week before I started Castlevania, but still.
I do really love Spencer and Jacob explaining Elden Ring things - it sounds so wild hehe. SO MANY FINGERS (they aren't wrong, I hate all the fingers).
As someone with non-psychotic and non-delusional visual and auditory hallucinations I find it enlightening to hear that everybody can to some degree manifest non-existent objects in their vision or inner eye.
I’m never going to recover from knowing other people can see a literal apple and I just see a dream apple
the apple is not holding a knife. my brain can do an apple or a knife, in the dark room with unknown location
Karina: **Doesn't do the Astarion or Von Lycaon suggestions because she's drawn them already**
Also Karina: **Draws Chilchuck**
Holy shit I didn't know about stabilization, thank you Jacob for changing my life (tone indicator: serious)
32:45 when i was a child my imaginary friend was a melloetta, specifically the one in the black and white anime, that followed me on the school bus home. i would literally force-project her eating lunch with me😭😭
I was wondering why I started singing barenaked ladies in my head every time someone said “it’s been” thank you drawfee
Apple Remorse is just a fancier Burger Regret, you can't trick me
Cant currently afford this workshop but I’d be very interested to take one in the future, please let us know any that come up even if you can’t drag Spencer onto stream
incredible sponsored stream
I love when Nathan gets nasty to match Karina and Jacob, what a treat :’)
Karina, that was such a good explanation of aphantasia!
As someone with aphantasia, you guys are getting apples?
If the fingers are grippin', your minds a-slippin'.
As an artist hearing that Karina also has aphantasia honestly gives me so much hope
This stream is on fire~ 🎶
When the mug tears and spit got surprised overlaid on freddy, I actually died and am a ghost now
This slaps :)
1:42:08 this looks like The Great Gazoo
even though I have the ability to skip the first part of the stream, I always stick around for Jacobs song. Ooh!
AI could never recreate that absolutely gorgeous explosion Spencer drew
Jacob literally drew The Great Gazoo. Didn't expect that.
Thanks! I couldn't come up with the name.
spencer: sometimes i post on tumblr. ...I should. Get better. At that.
why did i FULLY expect him to say "by not posting there" 😂
the apple conversation is hurting me psychologically as someone who CANNOT see the apple (I have aphantasia). please. not the apple. anything but the apple I cannot recover from the apple again.
read this as "please do not the apple."
1:23:40 I thought Jacob was gonna say “if they’re grippin’, your sanity’s a-slippin’”
"I'll teach you how to murder" oh great, i've been meaning to learn!
Delete your acquaintances art. Then sign up for Spenc oars drawr class
Julia and Spencer's drawing reminds me so much of mucha's slav epic !!
Spencer vod!!!
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Speaking of Hyperphantasia, there is actually a spectrum:
Phantasia is what most people have, which is normal imaginary vision
Aphantasia is having no imagination at all aka can't picture anything in your head (Which can also lead to never being able to easily remember faces or in an artists' case-can struggle with portraits or drawing from memory)
Then there's the in betweens:
Hypophantasia (Which I have) Is similar to Aphantasia but you can picture very little or the picture is low quality/simple
And then of course Hyper is having a vivid imagination that can reach far past the typical imaginary process.
For the longest time, I struggled with my Hypophantasia because I didn't know I had it, so I couldn't picture things often and if I did, it looked straight up like an old low poly game lol
If I try really hard I can imagine the apple on a place in my surroundings. But It’s like what I see is clipping between my reality of the things I see and my ability to imagine a thing being in that place I see. It’s weird. It’s like the worst strength projection ever.
Man that Midra drawing FUCKIN RIPS!!!! 🔥🔥🔥
So many cool drawings 🤩
I can't believe this is how I learned that Seth "Shifty Shellshock" Binzer died last month.
There are 13 canon versions of Freddy Fazbear that I can think of right off and you managed to dodge all of them. This is Julia levels of "from memory"
When it comes to picturing things in my imagination, my mind is basically AI, yes I can picture let say a "purple castle" but it doesn't make much sense, some parts of it are probably breaking laws on physics, im not sure how many windows it has, i don't know the details of the door unless I actively try to imagine them. That was the one cool thing about AI images, I could finally compare it to something when explaining it to my friend.
What a weird way for me to learn, at the ripe old age of 28, that I also have hyperphantasia. How the hell did other kids experience imaginary friends???
hearing that julia can see the apple and karina cant was genuinely surprising to me tbh
i cant naturally
YIPPEE SPENCER TIME!!
this one was extremely cool!!
Absolutely wild to me that Karina not only doesn’t have AR vision, but also can’t even picture the apple? Like I thought that was an artist thing!
I have to know now… does she not see anything in her head when she reads? Did she not have a little guy running alongside the car as a kid? Or an imaginary friend of any kind?
You’d be surprised, my brother-in-law’s brother also has aphantasia (all three of us have it), and he’s also an excellent artist. I’m more of a writer, so I’m not sure how he does it, but I tend to be very descriptive in my writings (I think because I feel I need a lot more info to set the scene) so I can see where that would be how he operates, too.
As someone with aphantasia, I can say that I can’t picture anything when reading or having things described to me. It’s all more of a feeling and a generic concept than anything.
I also didn’t have an imaginary friend. I didn’t find out that other people could see images in their mind’s eye until I was in my late 30s, so it kinda blew my mind that people actually had imaginary friends. Much like with most other visual representations in movies, I thought that was just visual shorthand to convey the internal structure of thought, not what people actually saw.
The midra drawing is so insanely cool
26:49 oh wow that's crazy, I can visual pretty well but it's not consistent and it's not in the room
26:49 I can do that too!! :o
I can also imagine how something would look if it was drawn, sketched while looking at it? And the thing is, I can see it but I also can't see it? because it's not actually there