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Dracula playing tennis for @alfalfascouting! This was one of the most delightful commissions I've done, I hope it makes you smile!

local ding dong sees bird and affixes himself to window screen

Ayyye, Have att'er! 8D

result of baby's first basement exploration

Oh absolutely lost in the sauce skskakdkkakdksk

some people cannot think of images at all. that's aphantasia.

some people can think of them, imagine them, but the colors are flat or dim, it's not very detailed or is very grainy, it might only last a short amount of time or be disjointed. similarly, some people only dream in black and white or the sensory information in their dreams is dim/vague/blurry/whatever.

some people have very vivid imaginations, where they can think of things in lifelike detail, and sustain those thoughts for as long as they want. they can use them as continuous reference when drawing, thus the disappointment when something didn't turn out like they thought in their head.

i used to have a vivid imagination. now i don't. i had to learn to draw over again once i could no longer sustain vivid thoughts of what i wanted to make. i think i'm still good at it though.

Yea I mean I recall having gone into the notes of aphantasia posts in the past and seen people describe not having aphantasia as literally, not metaphorically, seeing vivid hallucinations of the thing you're imagining. Like closing your eyes and not seeing black but literally seeing images instead. And saying that is what visualization means. I see constant confusion about this and people concluding that since they only see black when they close their eyes and imagine things they must have aphantasia lmao. Mind things are hard to explain and easy to misunderstand.

It also doesn't help that all the aphantasia tests online tell you to imagine things and ask what you see, and have the lowest answer as "I don't see an image but I know I'm thinking of it" and the highest answer as "I see it perfectly and vividly, just like real-world visuals, as vivid as real seeing". Which gives the impression that if you can only think of an image you have aphantasia and if you see an image that perfectly matches real seeing you have good visual imagination.

I consider myself to have a pretty visual imagination but since they're not literally visible the quality of the images is hard to pin down and personally I find the commonly used aphantasia image quality chart to be pretty unhelpful without further explanation or elaboration. Like how would I tell if an invisible mental visualization is "lifelike" or just "realistic and vivid"?

I can imagine things in high detail but sustaining them for a long time and getting them to "stay in place" well enough as my focus shifts to different parts of the image makes it hard to use them as a continuous reference.

I'm sorry to hear you've lost a skill you used to have. I wonder to what degree visual imagination is trainable, though, considering brains are plastic as hell... Like if it's something you can improve noticeably or gain back if you've lost it. I'd sure like to improve myself.

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do you know of more games like this one

Sadly, no I do not. It’s not often you come across a dating sim game that actually gives you the option of not being romantically involved with the dating options. And all the options are precious genuine sweethearts.