• Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do you still recognise people even if you can’t picture them without seeing them? I’m assuming you definitely know your parents lol, but if you were to see the same cashier multiple times or something would you realise or do you just forget what they looked like?

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      1 year ago

      For me anyway, not the person you asked but lemmy needs comments to feed it.

      But for me, i don’t visually picture someone’s face off I’m remembering it, but i do remember what someone looks like. So when I meet someone I recognise, it just clicks. I could describe someone i know from memory but maybe not with a ton of detail.

      I remember what things look like, could remember details of a painting etc etc, it’s just when i think of things, theres no visual acompaniment.

      Idk its hard to explain now that I’m trying to put it in words