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[Annabel_Lee]

This is a question inspired by a detail mentioned in Ordered Complexity, but it has been fascinating for me so far to discover how different we really are in our visualizations.

For instance, my flashbacks have pretty much always been in colour. But it’s interesting how that changes when I try to visualize events that aren’t from my time—incidents that I was never actually involved in, but have become part of my visual history because they’ve been recounted to me. Whenever I visualize incidents from my parents’ childhood or my grandparents’ time, there’s a sepia gradient to them. Also, I’ve realized that I don’t visualize the past sequentially, it consists of a lot of flashes that aren’t related by time but by association.

My friend has another really interesting mechanism. His visions of the past are sort of divided between colour and black-and-white but he has this thing, where the frame of the images gets more blurred as he recounts instances that are further in the past.

So how do you visualize the past?
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[Mayflow]

I don't ever honestly visualize the past, but sometimes dreams
incorporate the past. I dream in colour sometimes, but it's usually
more non-physical at all. I may recognize individuals, but not
in physical form.
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[Lenka]

I haven't really visualized the past recently.

If you'd like to, give me (us) something to recall and I'll describe exactly how I recall it.
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[The Troll Emperor of Doom]

I see events in the shape of a giant, rolling doughnut, internal to the doughnut, but with a big hole in the middle- and while I'm eating the doughnut- I can't help but wonder about why there was always a void in the middle, and if it's really the eternal void in the middle that makes the doughnut, or the baker?
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8161212442641245440&ei=J_1GSejUDIaYrQLb47XhDA&q=dune&hl=en

[lilithsansracine]

Most of it is involuntary or Proustian memory. It's a combination of sensations and words that I heard from others in the past situation.
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[Annabel_Lee]

[Mayflow]

[lordofthefood1]

I don't have actual visualizations

rephrase
I remember the colors, pictures, sounds, etc.
but I do not experience them in memories

When I close my eyes, I most often see nothing
I rarely remember dreams


When I fantasize, there are no pictures, that would be complex
sounds however, are easy for me to imagine



I can recall vividly an imagine, almost as if I have a photogenic memory
BUT I do not see it
If I had a good hand, I could sure as hell draw it from memory


What I'm saying is that I remember "the picture" (video, really), but I do not see it
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[Thrusthamster]

[HopscotchAndRocks]

I try to only remember the good parts. Anything is better than what is happening now.

[The Troll Emperor of Doom]

why would you read that? What benefit can possibly be derived from reading a book everyone else walked away from on page 29?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYKzIMyXzpU&feature=related
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8161212442641245440&ei=J_1GSejUDIaYrQLb47XhDA&q=dune&hl=en

[Zephr]

When I visualize something, it doesn't usually have details. It's in 3D. I can rotate it and move my point of view. If it's an area I was really familiar with I can move to places I've never been and see it from there. Like hovering 20 feet up in the air for instance.

If I don't remember a detail it just isn't there though. If I don't remember something's color, then it's just a colorless shape. Again, it's not black, white or gray, just colorless. If I visualize someones face it will be there in my head, whole and complete, but if I can't remember what the shape of their nose is I won't be able to see that in my head either.

I can feel things in my memory if I remember what they felt like, but they don't make sounds and they don't have smells. It's harder to remember sounds and smells. I have to let go of the image to do it. They have that same detail-less quality that sights do. I don't know how to describe what that actually means for them. Touch feels real though.
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[teaspoon]

I don't usually have images when going through old memories, just audio or sound. Conversations and general impressions that I got from them, since it's difficult for me to remember other details.

Sometimes I can go through chunks of memories in full detail if they're triggered by something though.
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[Fathergia]

I remember everything mostly vividly and in color.
But the emotions at the time always stand out the strongest.
Its always in how I saw it through my eyes though.
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[Annabel_Lee]

Really interesting responses.