![]() ![]() ![]() This has been my experience, too: people often presume that others think as they do and are skeptical when they hear about people rotating life-like images, or living in mental worlds without visual scenery. “They had a mental deficiency of which they were unaware,” he wrote, “and naturally enough supposed that those who affirmed they possessed it, were romancing” (Galton 1883, 85). In an early study of visual mental imagery, Francis Galton found participants who did not consciously experience visual mental images. Most mental processes occur subconsciously, but my research focuses on the lived experience of thought that varies from one person to another. By thinking, I mean conscious planning, problem-solving, imagining, and reminiscing. ![]() People who don’t think visually often have a hard time imagining the mental lives of those who do. ![]()
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