Everyday imagination with Ronja
What is the experience of imagining a gremlin on someone's shoulder? How do people imagine music, sounds, time and emotion? How is imagination used to find keys and remember names? Vynn and Francis chat with Ronja about her imagination, covering a wide range of topics that may inspire you to ask your own friends and family what happens in their minds. As someone mostly aphantasic, Francis quizzes Ronja about how she imagines a gremlin on a friend's shoulder. How solid is it? Does it rotate with the world? Is it alive, and to what extent is it under conscious control? The conversations continues on the topics of imagining emotion, smell and music. Then it gets practical, discussing how imagination can be used to find things lost in your house, navigate to a destination and assemble furniture. What are different ways people remember names, and what techniques can improve that? How do people imagine while watching movies and reading books, and what is it like to imagine emotions? Timestamps: 00:48 Gremlin on your shoulder 04:27 Aliveness of the gremlin 05:43 Emotion, smell and sound 07:07 Imagining music 10:20 Sounds and memories 13:40 Harry Potter 15:10 Looking for keys 19:13 Phantasia coaching 21:27 Shape rotating 23:42 Navigation 28:02 Names and faces 34:14 Visualising time 39:15 Emotion, books, movies 46:16 Imagine an apple Show Links: * SET by PlayMonster [https://www.playmonster.com/product/set/] - pattern matching card game * Mind's Eye Mentorship [https://www.gorcdc.com/mem-info] - formerly called AphantasiaMeow * Mind's Eye Courses [https://rcdc-courses.teachable.com/] - also by AphantasiaMeow * Visualisations of calendars [https://twitter.com/shanhorandraws/status/1775749356672663638] - Twitter thread * Manar's Twitter account [https://twitter.com/manarh] - the gremlin was on his shoulder Contact Details: Please follow us, get in touch, tell us about your inner experiences! Twitter: @imagine_apple [https://twitter.com/imagine_apple] @SurenVynn [https://twitter.com/SurenVynn] @frabcus [https://twitter.com/frabcus] Email: imagine@flourish.org Theme written, performed and recorded by @MJPiercello [https://twitter.com/MJPiercello]