History is often the tale of small moments - chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence - that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous…
- From Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson
I would like to know how others hyperphantasia interacts with their cognitive processing style or other mental aspects and informs their view of the world. For myself, I have a primarily intuitive processing style that involves taking in large sets of information (sensory experiences, readings, writings, art) and subconsciously generating connections or patterns that then emerge in dreams, insights, visions, epiphanies or snap moments and the like. The fact that hyperphantasia is primarily a visualization ability makes these other aspects vividly more powerful for myself.
Some ways this is expressed for me is being able to have causal information crystalize into probable outcomes. So in chess for example, seeing the pieces move around for a few turns into the future and this extends in general to scenario visualization. This relates to transformation and trajectory that my brain generally is attuned to and has a temporal dimension tracking changes and anticipating outcomes. Extreme examples of this would be seeing the past and future in the present. Time itself has a suffusing quality to it that is then expressed visually so it almost feels like being in a time loop if not careful.
Other ways is that it makes dreams and day dreams far more salient in my life. Its often disorienting awakening from a cinematic dream or a dream would involve sudden connections about something that has been on my mind occurring and appearing visually.
So how does hyperphantasia add to the way your brain overall works and how you view the world? What is your overall mental phenomenology like? How does it help and how does it hurt?
I was thinking on one of my favorite English words below and I don’t know the equivalent Arabic translation.
Numinous.
An adjective that describes something that has a strong spiritual, mystical or holy quality evoking feelings of awe, wonder, and a sense of supernatural and the presence of the Divine.
I checked Google Translate and it came up with رقمي raqami. Is this accurate? If not, what is the translation for this? Or closest translations?
I was thinking on one of my favorite English words below and realize I don’t know the equivalent Urdu translation.
Numinous.
An adjective that describes something that has a strong spiritual, mystical or holy quality evoking feelings of awe, wonder, and a sense of supernatural and the presence of the Divine.
Google translate says it is be shmar بے شمار. Is that right? What word best captures this? Or constellation of words?