Vermillion

Yesterday I discovered I had been a victim of the Typical Mind Fallacy thanks to accidentally finding out that someone very close to me doesn’t have an internal monologue, doesn’t think in words and has a visual photographic memory. Despite knowing that such people existed I thought I would know if someone close to me was one. As a result I thought it would be an interesting and fun exercise to gauge the conscious perceptions of the community. The below questions are judged on a 0-99 scale (they are not binary or predictions, the embedded Elicit formatting was just too great to not use), they attempt to find where the reader sits on a series of common mental metrics. How vivid is your visual imagination? Elicit Prediction (elicit.org/binary/questions/VMs-r172N) How vivid is your sound imagination? Elicit Prediction (elicit.org/binary/questions/7IdTsZLwQ) How vivid is your taste imagination? Elicit Prediction (elicit.org/binary/questions/1z38N4iwb) How vivid is your smell imagination? Elicit Prediction (elicit.org/binary/questions/LXJq-IvZ7) How vivid is your touch imagination? Elicit Prediction (elicit.org/binary/questions/DYD1BjiN0) Do you have an internal monologue? Elicit Prediction (elicit.org/binary/questions/0klHZhAEf) How frequently do you think in words? Elicit Prediction (elicit.org/binary/questions/u2R0BtAwp) How good is your memory? Elicit Prediction (elicit.org/binary/questions/dyZ0gw67E) How much control do you have over your mind? (For example, the ability to stop all thoughts on command) Elicit Prediction (elicit.org/binary/questions/eULBN11TJ) Do you have a type of Synaesthesia? (0 = none, 100 = very intense and encompassing) Elicit Prediction (elicit.org/binary/questions/cc-L-MZgK) If anybody has an unusual mental experience (or normal one!) please share it with us in the comments. If you do, don’t leave out the obvious, try to avoid the illusion of transparency.