Is it normal to not see pictures?

helen keller? is that you?

When you close your eyes and think of something. You can't physically see it. but you can sense and (Kind of) see it in your mind.

Now I don't know if this is true but I've been told that really clever people (Like on the autistic scale) Can physically see pictures when they think about them.

i dont exactly see a picture either but more like feel it... physically it's just blackness but maybe its deeper in your mind where the images have already been translated into thoughts. i imagine better with my eyes open and i see animations when i close my eyes

Whoa. Up until now I didn't realise that it wasn't common to not see anything when asked to "visualise". I could imagine it, but as for actually seeing an image of something as if I were staring at it in real life... I am incapable of this.

As for dreams, I dream with imagery but when I try to remember a dream I mostly remember the sounds and not the things I "saw".

My maths teacher at school did an experiment where we all had to close our eyes, visualise a shape he described and then answer a question about it. Then he asked who could "see" the shape. Nearly every hand went up. Except me and my friend Mark who had both worked out the answer using geometry. Neither of us could see the shape even when we tried.

I felt very self-conscious and almost like I was missing a sense that other people had. I went on to do Maths at University and I think Mark would have done too if he'd lived. I always wondered if we got into Maths because we needed it to do things everyone else takes for granted.

I heard that's some kind of handicap. look it up. my old English teacher has that...