I'm 5 too and I worked out it was different than most people what I was around 6yo when some kid in kindergarten asked me what my mum looked like and I said I didn't know but all the other kids knew what their mum's looked like.

40 odd years later and i still can't picture my mother, wife, kids, friends or work colleagues in my head, I couldn't give you a detailed description but I've trained myself to memorise features but it's more like memorising how to spell a word than an image

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I had a girl describe how she remebers things as like the memory playing on a screen in her mind and i realised then that people didnt say they 'see it in their mind' figuratively

[–] megasin1 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not even playing on a screen. I can close my eyes and visualise apples in a pack at the super market. I can imagine myself tearing the pack open, I can see the apple in level 1 detail of the OP. I can inspect it, it's green with yellowish spotsand imperfections, a black and brown stem, it has a waxy smoothness and I can visualise myself lifting my arm and taking a bite. The next part I lose vision, I can imagine feeling it on my front teeth before taking a bite. Its not a physical feeling, but like a memory of the feeling. And I can imagine taking that bite and then moving the piece to my right cheek to chew. On the first bite with my molars it cuts through the apple flesh but not the skin. Further chewing is required. Now I kindve lose imagination of the texture but the taste I can imagine that sweet acidic taste of apples. And that's about it figuratively speaking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I could experience this superpower.

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