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When you are recalling a past event, do you imagine the transpired events as a series of still images of as “clips” of videos? Or as something else?
When people who can’t imagine things vividly in their mind’s eye are recalling something from the past, what exactly are they recalling? Words?
I mostly imagine little 3-5 second "clips" that are each associated with ideas, impressions, and facts that I just sort of know without visualizing. For example, my memories of my college graduation involve a handful of little vignettes (a snippet of conversation with the girl sitting next to me, a snippet of getting dressed, a snippet from the restaurant my family took me to celebrate, etc.), none of which have much particular significance but for some reason stuck with me more clearly than the surrounding moments. Those are the only things I remember immediately and vivdly, but I can sort of work outward from these snippets to recall more details if I try. Sometimes those additional details are unlocked as more snippets, but usually it's just information that I recall the same abstract way I recall Pear Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
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