Auditory imagination but lack vivid visual imagination

[njtt]

@JohnClay

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.

[njtt]

@randompattern

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.

[JohnClay]

@njtt

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.