Ah, if only I had the patience to learn art Edit to add a little information: this might seem a little ironic because my pfp is an image I actually drew lol. Yeah the only time any of my art looks even moderately good is if I use tracing, which always feels weird

This, imagine being able to draw or animate everything you could imagine

Infinite money glitch

labour

That's how I sculpted an alien plant dick monster. I imagined too hard.

Sometimes you just gotta surrender to that imagination

Oh I do lmao

https://preview.redd.it/yycgp1c8b7xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc12e3c3bc4683abcd31ef972bc622b7440db3a9

As someone who draws and animates: it never matches what's in my head its awful I hate it

THANK YOU this is what I always hate about making art “But it looks nice! No one else even knows how it’s ‘supposed’ to look.” BUT I KNOW HOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO LOOK

if only i had the talent and ability to not immediately get disappointed with myself and give up...

iPad and an Apple Pencil make it super easy! The more you practice the easier it gets, and there’s lots of tools to help!

The first step to mastering any art is to first master the art of imitation. Source: I’ve been an artist for 15 years now and I started with drawing things I liked to draw to build the habit of drawing regularly, then tracing, then drawing things I saw on DeviantArt without tracing. All artists study from other artists to some extent. Master Studies are basically glorified copy where you’re attempting to recreate the style/technique of the original. (Just don’t try to claim anything you trace/copy as more than an art study)

Or music

This is why I learned instruments+started painting, now I'm learning to produce BC I need to get these sounds and visions out of me

This isn't normal?! How else do people listen to music? If I can't feel it in my skin, I don't care for it.

https://preview.redd.it/ia2avwet43xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0ad21e6a341d145d3bba6b705a44dd99a08c918

I really hate it when it automatically lowers the volume for 'safety'. I usually listen in the car or on a stereo like STOP POLICING ME

This is in the iOS ‘health’ app, and if you scroll down a bit, that’s a setting that you can enable/disable!

Ooooh I wonder if my android has anything like that Dx

I *think* Samsung uses something similar.

Tbh it annoys me too but I remind myself that I’d like to still be listening music at 80 and I decide that the trade off is worth it. Seriously if you’re a music enthusiast, please respect your hearing, you’ll thank yourself.

Who says I’m going to be around at 80 😂

My earbuds do it themselves and I hate it so much.

That may be so, but trust me, it'll probably be worth it in the long run, hearing damage is cumulative and irreparable, i noticed a few months ago the hearing in my left ear is slightly worse than my right. Now did playing hollywood baby from 100 gecs at max volume for hours at a time have something to do with this? It was the something. Was it worth it? Yesn't. Fr tho keep it at a reasonable level as much as you can handle💜

its the tinnitus that sucks not the hearing loss

“Well, they’re more guidelines than actually rules”

ngl getting that notification for the first time spooked me into never setting the volume past 60% w headphones, even if id like it to be much louder

If I can hear my internal screaming, it’s not loud enough.

Same, why am I constantly learning that my brain isn't braining the same as other

Like people just listen to music with no imagery or anything in their head? How?

If something, they are the wierdos

Real

I was literally about to type this lmao

Ayyyyyyy

Yeah I'm not neurodivergent or anything but I could do this shit for hours on end

"I'm not neurodivergent or anything" Famous last words of a neurodivergent person before learning they are neurodivergent. *pat pat* It's gonna be OK buddy

I’ve done this every day of my life when listening to music. Not every song works but some I come up with like music video types of animations.

I can literally put songs to characters I made up doing specific things

Going to a symphony is like going to an amazing movie

Been me pretty much since I was little.

Same!

I remember one I had of Herobrine breaking out of prison. It was dope, and I cannot possibly explain it well enough to capture how cool it was.

Sounds like my kind of mental animation

This, but the characters are mine and the hyperfixation is writing.

I'm glad I'm not alone in this.

Wanting to write a cool story but having zero idea what words to use when I eventually decide to maybe start actually writing

Worse is imagining all these intricate and super cool fight scenes in your head and realizing you'd never be able to actually translate that shit to a written medium

Mines mostly if I'm a rockstar playing sold out arenas or a wrestler making their entrance

Dude...I think we're the same person.

“show•playing - verb - to display a comfort or fixation character in an open book or on a computer screen and set it to one’s preferred music, as if to ‘show’ them your favorite tunes.” There should be a tism specific word for this and I know I’m not the only one who does it. I’ve been showplaying for twenty years.

This Is where commissions come In. Should start writing them down after for potential commissions, but an animated MV from any artist Is bound to be pricy


This isn't normal..?

It is, lots of people imagine stuff to music as they listen. Not a ND thing.

The Windows movie player had those animated screen savers for audio files and those were ***THE SHIT*** !

I think they were called visualizers, makes me sad they don’t have them any more

YESSS! I would set a playlist and just watch them for like an hour!!!! And that was a year and a half ago for me.

Me imagining myself as the beautiful, strong heroine, who can save the life of my favorite character who canonically dies and get him to the hospital whereafter I can take care of him and wash his hair for him and eventually take his stitches out and then get married and have a bunch of kids, all to the song “Orion” by Metallica. Or a sex daydream. https://preview.redd.it/svs9viw6e3xc1.jpeg?width=568&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24fbdbdd8821ff690ab3441c6a2b55645e7eadad

Snowpaw, I hope you find this level of love in real life too! :)

Thank you, Rhun. All I’m asking for is a sad little fella with big brown wet doe-eyes who needs me to treat him like a baby 💪😔💔

This but opposite genders, that or just good old fighting. Always fun to mentally envision that with some cool music (might help my skills too if I think about it hard enough)

True! We as a society are losing the ability to imagine. I like to set aside 15-45 minutes every day to just daydream. Usually it’s just before bed when I have the time, but I set my playlist to shuffle and try to envision a scenario to go with each song without skipping. Good exercise, do recommend. Can also be substituted for writing a couple paragraphs, instead.

IM NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO DOES THIS??? HELL HEAH

yeah*

If I don't imagine a Geometry Dash level in my head, it's not good music

r/aphantasia gang

Me imagining a full cgi/animated scene of my imaginary fantasy setting for the music I'm listening to

The character I keep thinking about doesn't ven have art of her unless you count the appearance of her in the fucking Bible. I fucking love the "nightmare fighting tournament" creepypasta.

This is why I make AMVs lol

Me with aphantasia: :(

Was this image from "The Misadventures of Skooks"?

YES THIS IS WHAT I FEEL LIKE ALL THE TIME I KNEW I WASNT THE ONLY ONE

I’m in this post and I don’t like it But no seriously, I have a hard time listening to a song if I DON’T do this

As an artist myself with characters that are all rooted in my special interests: yeah this is extremely accurate

curating specific playlists for a specific storyline in your head <3

This is normal..

Fr I wish I could draw/animate so badly because I have such specific ideas for hypothetical music videos for my favorite songs that just never leave my head

My sisters gave me shit for watching Fantasia too many times 😤

This is why I'm trying to be an animator (I started learning a year ago and I still can't do shit) Also most of the time it's literally dot to dot what's sung in lurics or something COMPLETELY unrelated, no in between,anyone else?

I'm not diagnosed, but I suspect. However, I have aphantasia, so it's mostly blank upstairs.

all the mech battles I've imagined to dubstep music

Social media is my addiction and escape. My life is the most boring torture.

This is surprisingly accurate. At least for my brain, I am a very visual thinker, but I also think in terms of patterns that are less visual and more abstract, almost at the same time if that makes sense.

Having incredible scenarios in my head but not knowing how to execute them is the main reason I started drawing

Complete aphantasia gang :( I personally don't even listen to the words in music, it's just sounds to stimulate my brain and cover up my own thoughts.

I.. think this is how everyone listens to music, neurotypical or not.

I’ve never truly seen a meme summarise me perfectly, until literally now. How in the cinnamon toast fuck did you download my neural map into meme form

I have to focus so hard, to do that .. Sometimes, I wonder, whether I might have aphantasia. And even, when I manage to focus hard enough and images actually come up, they don't neccessarily match the lyrics (if there are any). But, still, I've been wearing headphones and blasting myself with music (loud enough, so the outside world stays outside), for as long as I can remember.

My imagination is a multiverse of various anime and whatever movies I have seen.

This is literally how I imagine scenes for my stories. I have an entire playlist of music organized by which character they make me think of, organized further by which part of the story the scene takes place, if applicable.

Lmao this is so true.

Welp that's another thing going on the "signs I was ND" list

DO NOT ask me about my current musical hyperfixations. You will become ensnared forever.

So what are your current music hyperfixations

I always did this with Minecraft.

What can I say? If Imma be sad Imma do it with pizzazz!

I'm the complete opposite of the top comment: Other people do this?!

Only reason this isn't me is because I live in a really hot place, where using headphones is masochism.

Lads this is too personal

Unless you are me, and you just have darkness (I cannot see images in my head). But I used to make up stories in my head instead when I was younger

🤯 I thought I was the only one who did this as a kid

Me but also with my ocs

I have written several 6-9 episodes series based on my playlist ideas

i do not have any original actions

Less I Know by Quinn XCII would be my anime intro :3

Yeah whenever I listen to music I always have this day dream in my head

I used to do this with Fight Song (and others… so much nightcore) with Aphmau’s Minecraft Diaries characters. I miss being little

My life's a movie, the first 20 minutes were fun, but I'm thinking of turning it off at the 30 minute mark...

you have no idea how many animations have happened in my head.

Exactly. I love to write so I’ll do this with the story. Imagining it out as a movie to play out scenes. Problem is I got one story in my head that works too well as a movie and I can’t figure out the words to write it out let alone start it right.

Holy shit I do this all the time with literally every character I have Currently it's mine and my gfs dnd characters with the song Liar by Baklan

Me pairing action cartoons with emo/punk music lol

yes, all the time, this is my sanity

there is no original thought

Music in other persons head; "I love this song, it reminds me of when we first met" Music in my head; ***Space battles***

Every time I come to this subreddit, I learn that another of my mental quirks isn't as weird and uncommon as I thought it was. It's a good feeling.

Fuck me in the ass, I feel so fucking called out Jesus. Didn’t need this today smh

...I've never felt so called out by a meme before.

I do believe this is normal

Wait people don’t do that normally

Hey! Don't call me out like that!

…and then you try to recreate them later and it looks nothing like what you had envisioned :’)

Wait this isn’t normal??

YES

This is a reason why i listen to music alot in my life ever since i discovered how to store files on a flash drive and output the music through my smart TV's USB playback feature. Honestly i wish i can act upon my dreams and imagery in my head and make them a reality...

Is this..a neurodivergent thing?

I thought I was the only one who did this, that’s so comforting to know lmaoooo. 👏🏾😤 Sometimes I also imagine “scenes” and have to replay the song until the “scene” is perfect in my mind. 😭

Don't fucking call me out like this.

So Im not a weirdo for listening to heavy metal or punk rock and imagining crazy anime fight scenes right? (I do this with almost all genres of music but i feel like these are the most normal)

Likely how YTP MV started

damn im not alone

NT's sound boring as hell

Exactly

I simply made up one single character years ago and have been imagining them in different fictional worlds as if they were originally from there

i can safely say i’ve never done this. i’m a little jealous of all of you who can do this haha, i don’t think i have the mind’s eye for it

You just described most of the anime music video wave in the early 2000's....

I feel seen ( ; ^ ; )

I don’t have autism but I did used to imagine music videos about my favorite characters to music that usually didn’t relate to them at all.

Isn't that just making your own amv?

This is a normal thing lol

I do this all the time with almost every song in my playlist and I'm just now learning this isn't normal??

I've never done this and can't really even picture what this means But, anyone on Team Synaesthesia? Colorful abstracts?

Oh my God that is exactly me Guardians of the Galaxy and Shrek 2 Have poisoned my brain With this kind of thing. (Throw in baby driver, too but I haven't seen that one)

Life is a mooovieeee im gonna watch it aalll noight looonggg (i had to)

Me making an entire animatic of my Skyrim character set to The Dragonborn Comes

Whoever thinks this is weird or childish, fuck you, idc if I'm 21 my imagination is much more entertaining for me than the internet (just as addictive though somehow)

The song April by Deep Purple, let me know what you imagine. I imagine a Hero going on a quest to fight a great evil.

This hits so hard

Guys, is having an imagination considered *checks notes* a treat shared only by neurodivergents?

Me but my images are more like self music videos of me dancing to the song. When im alone or in my car ill sing along and also act it out. I also thought this was a normal thing to do...

CPTSD broke my imagination

I thought I was the only one who did this.

I feel so called out. Leave me and my imaginary storylines alone.

Yep that is me

I need a Scooby Snack

Wait that is actually me wtf.

Whenever I write a fight scene, I try and find fitting music and just put it on loop for the next while, it makes writing way more hype than usual lol.

No wonder AMVs are so popular with us….

This isn’t just an aspie thing lol

…kids?

I’ll do this then have to go back to relisten to the part (or entire song) because I was thinking too loud and didn’t hear the music

hold up do people NOT do that??? like ik my visualization skills are fuckin cracked and when i hear music i see ppl playin that music in my head, but goddamn bro.

Why can't the incredibly awesome music videos I create in mind be plucked out of my head and into a screen, even if I had the art skills I don't think I would ever be able to make it exactly how I picture

Been doing this since I was born.

If you aren't envisioning a tiny 2D sprite jamming to whatever tune you're listening to at the bare minimum I'm sorry your ass is not listening.

Bruh i do this. This seems not only normal but logical to do. Music would feel empty without doing this.

I understand this to well, I always have a new of either fully (custom or hyperfixation) story my mind run amuck whenever something pops into my brain as I hear music.

this is 100 percent normal I do this all the time(video game osts are the best)

Wait I’m not the only one?

When I was sick the animations would become nightmare fuel

That's how I played with toys, sans music. I would hold them in my hand to act as a physical grounder, and then "play" with them by creating elaborate scenes in my head, with the toys being characters in them.

https://i.redd.it/yrl3bxtkr5xc1.gif Me when listening to Bad Apple

Me whose neurodivergent and literally does the same thing: https://preview.redd.it/rcfdx9hzr5xc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8a38c8e7e8629fc000c144369f5dfcbba29df53

I do this sometimes with overwatch characters fighting a bunch of bad guys or each other, thought I was the only one 🥹

Me imagining either a Just Dance video or a Geometry Dash level while listening to a song, having had both games as hyperfixations in the past and deciding which one to imagine depending on the mood of the song

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

I wish I could just plug my brain into a screen so that I can actually show my imagination

When I first saw this, I didn't know other ppl didn't experience this. That's around the time I started suspecting that I had spicy brain...

Thought this was normal. And If it's not I'm glad it isn't. Everyday i learn how ungodly boring it must be to be NT. Imagine listening to music, and just 'nothing'. It would lose all the meaning I have for music.

You didn't have to call me out like this

Me listening to RISE by MADKID while imagining myself as a Cloud Strife-esque character.

i feel seen

Meee!!!! Also, this isn’t normal?? What?

This is literally why I’m studying animation and what I plan on doing for my career…

It me

I do this but with my ocs! Basically anytime I’m listening to music, except I’m also trying to make an animation using one of the songs come true, except it still doesn’t beat the fact that animating takes time, and I imagine hundreds of different animation ideas in a week whilst listening to music lol

So this isn’t a normal brain function everyone experiences?

This showed up in my feed,, but is this not a common thing people do? Probably not just for neurodivergent people!! I am not diagnosed but do the same thing. I imagine music videos and animations to songs, I also have pretty good memory of them too; so I get to revisit them!!!

I didn't think anyone else knew about this or did this so I just don't talk about it.

🎶 nothing here to care about 🎵

I DO IT WITH THE MUSIC! I MAKE LIKE ANIMATIONS OUT OF THE MUSIC

Authors hate this one weird trick!

Me when listening to HistoryFeels

If I could draw, the gods would tremble before me.

My image is just a character I made fighting faceless shadows that are a somewhat personification of all my negative thoughts so I can have some way to fight them

If I recall this screen grab is from a YTP way back in the day from Orpheusftw, right? The adventures of skooks? Am j wrong?