that's a good sign for the rest of the day.

How many of you have ever heard of something called aphantasia? It's the inability to see things in your mind. I didn't know that people were all over the map on that. And apparently people don't — there are some people who don't think in images. I don't even know what to think about that, because I only do.

And apparently the test, I was just seeing this on Wikipedia or someplace, is if I told you to imagine an apple and then I said describe to me what you see in your mind, apparently there's a wide range of how clearly people see the apple.

Now I'm sort of an artist. I'm sort of an artist by profession, and I can tell you that I can see the apple as clearly as a photograph. How many of you would say that if I imagine it, it's just like a photograph? Yeah, usually all the details. I can rotate it. I can change its color just like a photograph.

Now how many of you would say the opposite? And I think it might be like just five percent of people or less or fewer. How many of you would say you can't see the apple at all? Is there some who say you can't see it at all? It's just sort of a concept of an apple but you don't actually see it.

So we have some, right? Yeah, there's some people saying that that applies to them too. You know, this I don't think there could be a better example of understanding how differently people are experiencing their reality. I honestly don't even have a way to imagine what it would be like if your imagination didn't reproduce things as well as the real world. I don't even know what it would feel like. I have no way to even visualize it. Well, I can't imagine it. I suppose if it were visual I could visualize it.

So one of the secrets about why I can draw, you know, let's say a new object is that I'm tracing it. It's actually tracing. I know you hate me because that makes it sound too easy, but I see it first and then I just put the lines on where I see it.

Now if you can't do that, and apparently there are a number of you who can't, how would you ever learn to draw? It feels like if you tried to draw it would be like stick figures and stuff, because the one in your mind you wouldn't know what it looks like on the paper, right?

So I would guess, and when I see artists who could do photorealistic drawings, I think maybe they're even further than I am in terms of being able to see it.