1. First, what type do you think you are? How sure are you?
infp... most of the time pretty sure, some days not at all, so perhaps 75?
2. Visual. How does your brain experience visualization when your eyes are closed?
Can you think of colors? Yes, my mind use colour a lot for thinking, as part of the language, there's always colour among my thoughts.
Can you picture an apple? Yes, dfferent kinds, drawn, detail, texture, but not all of it in focus at once, it is like only around...2-3cm at a time can be focused.
Can you think of what your loved ones look like? Yeah... but it is a bit difficult to get faces to show properly, often it is like a wig with blurr, and then I can see one feature at a time, nose, eye, mouth... when I really try I can get a full face often, but not always. It doesn't seem to matter how close they are, it is almost sometimes like people that matter are more difficult, as one have seen them in so many ways, and it is more the feel of the sum that pops up when trying to envision them, compared to say a face you often see in a still picture.
What acquaintances look like? see above
Do you see background detail clearly if you decide to picture an apple or a person? If I want to, when I thought of apples, sometimes there was a hand that held it or I saw the tree it hung from and the leaves and sunshine. Some detail, but not like a photo.
Can you picture an alligator ice skating? Blurry without problem, clearer if making an effort, pictures changing, from a natural looking someone put on skates that lay flat on their sides as they don't fit, to one with specially made in an ice rink, to one getting a hang of it and using it to quickly attack a person, to a drawn. Pictures tend to flash by when I do this more conciously like this, it is difficult to keep one and inspect it for long.
Can you picture yourself snorkeling with a top hat on? Somewhat... a person that is to be me doing that, but I have a bit of a trouble seeing myself, I have a bit unclear image of myself.
Does the hat stay on? yes, I did it like a still picture, if like a movie I could see both, but now I have read the question, if it stays on I imagine it is attached to the cyclops.
Do you need to work to imagine the details of fish and water or does that come very easily? As there was focus on the hat I imagined it from above, so no fish, but water with waves and some waves from swimming, some water lilies, or in another picture tiles in a pool. Those came naturally, not super detailed, but they were there.
How long will this stay in your mind after not actively recalling it anymore? it is gone as soon as I think of something else, now it is there in the background as I still answer the questions, but slightly distorted I think
Can you look all around you and see all the detail, shadows and sunlight? So tried again and more like I was snorkeling and looking around, and with some effort I can, but one detail at a time. I don't snorkel very often, or see movies of how it looks when people do, so it takes a bit of effort to see how the light reflect in the surface and shine through unclear or clear water, what there is to look at depending on where, if there are waves and how it affects light... It feels like there is a picture there behind the curtain of subconscious though, that is clearer, that I can't quite access.
Can you picture yourself somewhere you’ve never been? Yes, but details might be a bit more difficult than with things I am more used to, depending on if it is somewhere with similar parts as places I have seen before or not. But if not superdetailed, I can flash pictures of places I've never been quickly.
Imagine people clearly who you’ve never seen? Don't know for sure, who knows, perhaps my mind uses some person who walked past me on the street when I was 8? but yeah, fairly clearly, it is a bit the opposite of when someone I know well though, it is easy to see a not very detailed full face, but I have to put in an effort with the details one and one.
What about in dreams while asleep? Sometimes, but often dreampeople don't have proper faces, more a hint of this and that, expressions, detail that give character etc.
3. Sound when it is quiet.
Can you hear sounds? Yes
Can you hear a bird singing? Yes, but not well, it is like it easily becomes a distorted version of my voice trying to sound like birds.
Can you play a song from the radio in your head? It is a bit similar there, this was easier, I imagined the song I was listening to before doing this part of the exercise, and it was the singers voice, and some instruments(but the instruments are unclear, I get more a sense of them, I think my mind plays them, but behind the curtain), but a bit like my inner voice also mixed up with it to some extent.
Can you think of what someone from your past’s voice sounds like? hm, somewhat, but not very clearly, and not everyone
Can you hear exactly some things that they said? Some, but with effort.
Can you imagine a new tune? Yeah, in my inner voice. Nothing good though, I am not a musician.
Can your brain make a mash-up? yes, but terrible, haha. I have made nice ones when falling asleep though, hypnagogia, then I seem to have more musical skills than when fully conscious.
Can you do more advanced things, like does your brain make symphonies? simpler ones when falling asleep a few times, perhaps 4 or 5 sounds/instruments/melodies mixing, but otherwise, no.
What about when dreaming while asleep? I am not sure, I don't really recall much sound in dreams, I think it is sparse, sometimes there is simple things like a clock ticking, a drop dripping, a kind of melody, like a dragging mechanical thing...
4. Touch.
While touching nothing with your hands, can you imagine touching something furry or wet? yeah
Can you imagine/recall certain textures of loved ones and clothing? without trouble
Can you imagine the pain from burning your finger clearly as if it had happened? No, it is a shadow of the real feeling.
Can you imagine what a frozen elephant might feel like? Yeah, but it might not be at all what it really is like.
What about when dreaming when asleep? I don't think I feel pain really, more than the shadow of a feeling, say if getting cut, but I think I can experience what other things feels like, even if not dreaming of toughing them, just knowing, sometimes, or how it feels to manipulate other objects, like cutting through something.
5. Smell. Can you think of something that smells sweet or sour? yeah, with slight trouble perhaps, if I try with something specific it is easy, but sweet and sour as basic smells is a bit difficult, probably because it isn't smells really, but affecting other smells.
Can you think of vanilla and smell it? not physically smell it like a hallucination, no, but imagine it.
A strawberry? yeah, same as above
Are there certain smells you can recall exactly and other’s not? yeah, some are more complex or unusual or with less connected to them, or not important enough
What about how hugging your loved ones smells? A bit difficult, it doesn't always smell the same.
What about creating a perfume? I imagined one with the herbs in my garden, it wasn't a hit, haha, but yeah, seems I do that, interesting, I think about combinations of smells every so often, but more theoretically I think, don't "visualize" like now and actually smell them.
Imagine mixing strawberry and vanilla and that flower you like together? Yes, with some effort... I think it was a bit difficult to get the round of vanilla together with the sharper ones.
What about mixing “bad” smells together? Yes, with a little effort
Rotting meat and a latrine with old fish? eurgh, yeah
What about when you are asleep dreaming? Don't know... I don't think I smell in dreams, perhaps it is there more like a thought at time, knowing it smells, but not really feeling it.
6. Taste.
Can you imagine/taste sweet or salty? yeah, no problem
What about bitter end sour? Yes, but bitter with effort.
What about tasting an orange and then a grapefruit? yes, it is easier than the tastes without something concrete.
Or is it almost like you are actually tasting it? imagining chewing it and adding texture and so on helps, I think perhaps that belongs more under touch, but it it the full experiece of eating that gives a strong image of the taste.
Can your brain make asparagus with cheddar cheese and rosemary? no, I have no idea how cheddar cheese tastes
but asparagus, butter and rosemary, yeah
Can you taste cinnamon rolls with cardamom and cherries? cherries? is that a thing, but yeah, no problem
What about while asleep dreaming? don't think so, my dreams are likely mostly visual, with feeling atmospheres, empathy, knowings, and some touch feelings and textures etc.
I think a lot in images and feelings, some texture and room/placement too, and colours... and personalities, I think those also make up what ideasthesia I might have.