# Auditory imagination but lack vivid visual imagination

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auditory-imagination-but-lack-vivid-visual-imagination/677454>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 30, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auditory-imagination-but-lack-vivid-visual-imagination/677454 "2013-12-30T02:55:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auditory-imagination-but-lack-vivid-visual-imagination/677454/21 "2014-01-02T11:15:57Z")

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> [@JohnClay](#):
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> Like I was saying earlier I’m unable to have sexual fantasies that would arouse me since the images are like a vague shadow. Apparently some people can have sexual fantasies and I suspect they’d have a more vivid visual imagination.

I do not think specifically _visual_ imagination is a major component of most people’s sexual fantasies.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auditory-imagination-but-lack-vivid-visual-imagination/677454/22 "2014-01-02T11:23:41Z")

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> [@randompattern](#):
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> Maybe I should try to clarify. I don’t need to be touching anything or or have seen it in the past(memory). I’ve had job situations where I’ve been asked to fabricate something that can perform a specific task. I’ll just close my eyes and imagine the task, then it starts coming together. I also tend to make several revisions to the original idea in my head until I have a nearly final plan. I’m no genius believe me, this is just the way it works for me.

I am not denying that that is how it (subjectively) works for you. You are, by your own account, both a vivid visual imager (according to your introspective reports) and a good spatial problem solver. However, it is possible (and, seemingly, quite common) to be either one without being the other.

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**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auditory-imagination-but-lack-vivid-visual-imagination/677454/23 "2014-01-02T11:24:45Z")

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> [@njtt](#):
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> I do not think specifically _visual_ imagination is a major component of most people’s sexual fantasies.

Well I can imagine some sounds and vaguely how touches might feel like… (though I’ve never tried imagining touch) that’s about it for me.

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