I have aphantasia and anauralia - scientific definitions for a blind and silent mind. It is a Clairvoyant world, when only 2-5% have aphantasia - in that, most can 'count sheep' in their minds eye, to various degrees.
I am unable to see images in my mind - I can't 'count sheep' like others - my minds eye is blind. I am just counting, knowing the numbers represent sheep. I lack what may once have been called clairvoyance, which can be defined as; 'clear seeing' or 'minds clarity of vision'.
Etymology of Clairvoyance:
Clarity - the ability to think clearly / brightness of mind (Latin)
Clair - clear (French), Voir - to see (French)
Clairvoyant - clear sighted perspective (French)
First used in 1600, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Prior to this, the Greeks spoke of oracles, particularly at Delphi, where priestesses could receive divine messages through visions, voices, or bodily sensations. Shamans, from indigenous cultures around the world, often had heightened perceptions. Spiritual teachers or yogis were believed to have powers of clairvoyance and claircognizance as part of their spiritual mastery and in Christian mysticism, saints and visionaries often reported visions (clairvoyance), voices (clairaudience), and physical sensations from divine or angelic entities - gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Today, such things might be labelled under the heading of ESP, or extra sensory perception. Is this the attempt to define mental sensory perception, in a world where science does not acknowledge 'mystical' experiences?
Aphantasia and anauralia come under 'voyance' and 'audition' of the mind, some of my thinking senses others don't understand, that I find hard to explain (and that compensate for this lack of mental vision), seem to come under the other Clair's mentioned in history.
Clairvoyance = Clarity of thought in visions (100%, Hyperphantasia - 0%, Aphantasia)
intuition, muscle memory, genetic memory and fight or flight responses)
reflex cognition - ah-ha moments, Clairsentience = Clarity of thought in feelings (0%, Alexithymia)
It also makes sense to me now, why some people with Parkinson's can see Machine elves, why patients with PTSD can have visual or emotional flashbacks, how schizophrenia patients hear voices and see visions, how tulpamancers can create tulpas, why dementia patients can mentally 'time hop' uncontrollably, why some people suffer psychopathy and how psychogenic drugs can cause trips. Even why some people can smell colours or taste numbers and maybe why some people get phantom limb pain.
rprint, unique to us all? A mixing deck of senses; that we all have different levels and combinations for, in order to achieve balance?
https://perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world/
ReplyDeleteWas definately onto something.. https://imaginationspectrum.com/
ReplyDelete"Maybe there are people who can see the past and future at one end of the extreme?"
ReplyDeleteOthers also wondered, even the Vatican had its rumors of the Chronovisor; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2KtaOjsv_M
Interdependent Concepts and their Independent Uses: Mental Imagery and Hallucinations
ReplyDeletehttps://philarchive.org/archive/SMIICA-2