I’m thinking about sports as an example. I used to do fencing, and sometimes we would learn a new technique or I would imagine one to do, and I would imagine myself doing it, then it was almost like autopilot where my body would do it just how I imagined, like it was easy. It didn’t happen very often but when it did it felt really cool.
I read “simulating” as “stimulating” at first before I read the entire title
It’s pretty common for me to imagine success and then discover an obstacle in reality.
No, I have aphantasia so cannot visualise images (fortunately my brain seems to have compensated with Daredevil-esque sound capabilities / eidetic memory for sounds).
It causes so many difficulties. Earlier I saw a comment someone had made mocking people complaining about the lack of planet-side maps in Starfield, saying people who can’t navigate by memory are stupid goobers. I’m not stupid, just my brain doesn’t hold images very well (I’ve been practicing and can hold an image for a split second before it dissipates).
That’s how I learned to tie my shoelaces as a kid. I was “taught” by a cousin iirc, who was barely older than me and couldn’t demonstrate it properly. I figured it out on my own by visualising it. It’s the bunny ears method that I use to this day.
Yeah but I have bad self confidence so I don’t expect it to work how I imagine and I’m surprised when it does
I actively do this. I try think about what it would look and feel like in first person before I do something (or as I’m trying to improve at it). Lots of studies show that this can be almost just as beneficial as training
Yes… envisioning things is an important part of learning or planning something.
I do that a lot. I can even correct mistakes before makong them. I imagine doing the motion and realize the angle that I am aiming is not good lr something.
One time I was able to practice serving volleyball without a ball between two sessions and next week I drastically improved.
Yeah, thats like the whole point of being able to plan. To conceptualize a potential action or series of actions in your mind and execute on them to make it reality. Most of the time real world variables are slightly different to mental abstractions but sometimes they are close enough for things to go just as planned.
