I made a blender model and animation of this thing I experienced to show how it looks like and moves, and to use that as a way to find out if someone knows what it is, where or why. I don’t know much more and am wondering what others know based on their encounters. It’s somewhere at some time, seems huge. The discs are flattish and don’t reflect light other than from the edges. I’ve tried posting in a few communities and get mostly aggravated answers, or overtly focusing on how I got this knowledge (almost like I’ve done something forbidden when it’s not an aspect I care about), and one got modded hidden.

  • Ludrol@szmer.info
    7·
    3 days ago

    If you have aphantasia, could it be that you imagined those rings and you just don’t know how imagination feels? Something like “Is my red the same as your red?”, most people know how imagination works, but you don’t know how to interpret it?

    • funkyshoe@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      I kinda get what you’re going for

      My imagination with aphantasia is non visual contexts. Meditation, kinda like passive “imagination”/intuition/receiving from the source can modify that if you’re doing like a guided thing or add intent (“golden light/purple aura” stuff)

      This entity/object is a different kind. Clear, less of a projected image and more like a this is how it is if you’d be there.

      For another commenter I mentioned like remembering where you put your keys

      • ArchEngel@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 days ago

        Huh, that’s interesting - when I imagine things it is almost always clear, not like a projected image, and definitely how it is/would be like if I was there. I have trained my imagination for running D&D games so that I can describe a scene better for my players.

        I often imagine I go on trips to my imagined D&D setting, including things down to the details of feeling the woodgrain of the bar where I am sipping on an imaginary rum.

        I wonder if your experience with aphantasia has made what I find normal to be a near mystical experience for you?

        Edit: added paragraph breaks.

        • funkyshoe@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Practicing can alleviate aphantasia and it matches how people describe an internal screen. Like your watching stuff inside your head. It’s kinda flat and small and contained in a way, distinctly different than how people do out of body experiences for example.

          Also one difference I’ve noted in descriptions and myself is that imagining can repeat. You imagine something and can do it multiple times quite accurately. Whereas an experience gets kinda corrupted, lost in memory. I have no way to repicture this event with my mind/imagination so I took to 3d tools.

          I don’t see much as mystical anymore.