This is really about how much abstraction you have in your thinking. I've seen people be very heavily on the #1 side when i was a kid, and it was always baffling to me that people seem to be unable to talk about objects if they don't have very detailed descriptions of superficial details that seemed completely irrelevant to me.

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am I the only one like this?

I'm somewhere between 5 and 4 if I'm really trying. Never felt like a handicap or anything before

Do you guys sometimes also get the weird feeling of: "this is my body, this is planet earth, this is my flat and I live here." Sometimes that happens. And when that happens, I usually think about things like how the universe came to be the big bang, the laws of physics fighting each other until settling on a seady state. Then the Earth is created, millions of years of evolution go by and here you are, sitting on the toilet. The entire chain of thought only lasts for about five seconds and then you're again stuck with the feeling of "I am back here on planet Earth". Do you guys also get that sometimes?

fuck you, I'm imagining a rainbow tapdancing apple with a top hat on a Roomba on a taxi

Too fun and interesting to be a shitpost. Half my family are 1 the other half are 5. Woo!

And how the hell does one navigate life.

When tying your shoelaces what images or dialogue do you have in your head?

One time I had a dream about the ascii game I played. I dreamed it both IN TEXT, and my brain produced images of the people, places, and things at the same time as I usually imagined them.

I am probably 1/2, but creating images in my mind is not something I do on a daily basis, which is probably why I lack creativity in certain areas. Also I had hard time remembering faces for most of my life, and only recently it get slightly better.

Also I've noticed that the more I think about how something looks like the less I am able to picture it in my head, sometimes even not being able to remember my crush's face which is probably strange as fuck.