Oh no, I just got over the whole "not everyone has an inner-monologue" thing.

If you were asked to imagine an apple in your mind, how much of the fruit would you actually be able to see?

Personally, I see nothing in my mind. But if you ask, I can tell you exactly what an apple is meant to look like. I can list the right dimensions, where light hits, the stalk length, the vibrant colour, the unique markings, but there is absolutely no way I could see what I describe in my mind.

However, apparently some people can. Some people can actually visualise the exact thing they imagine, which is baffling to a lot of people online.

Twitter user @premium__heart posed the question to her followers after discovering that people imagine things differently in their minds. “This is still blowing my mind lol. Close your eyes and imagine an apple. What do you see?,” she tweeted along with a photo of five heads representing imagination.

Starting at one, the images ranged from an extremely detailed apple to progressively more abstract versions, with the fifth head being completely blank.

This is still blowing my mind lol Close your eyes and imagine an apple. What do you see? I'm a 5 pic.twitter.com/fL6JpxOsZS — Mary (@premium__heart) February 7, 2020

The apple visualisation test has come up only weeks after the infamous “not everyone has an internal monologue” discovery. But everyone is just as confused. The apple photo started raising questions about what it means to “see” something in your mind.

It turns out that while people in team five can conceptualise things in their head, they can’t see a proper image when they close their eyes. This experience is actually a condition called aphantasia, which is characterised by a lack of functioning mind’s eye leading to an inability to visualise things mentally.

Wait, people can actually SEE things in their head??? Not just?? Imagining an idea??? — vik @ simping for hubert vestra (@GoldenGrayscale) February 7, 2020

yeah i dunno what “seeing” really means like i can imagine the concept of an apple i can imagine rotating it around in my mind, what that would look like but i don’t “see” it in the literal way that you see with your eyes — Who YIIKs the YIIKmen? (@thinkiamsad) February 7, 2020

This is so fascinating! I’m a 5; like I can’t see things when I close my eyes but I can think it and feel the emotion of it?? But people are out here saying they can SEE SEE objects vividly which is insane to me https://t.co/4QPcLxYvPy — anoosha syed 🌱 (@foxville_art) February 8, 2020

This concept really confused people in camp one who are used to vividly seeing the things they imagine. The apple visualisation test raised questions about how people dream and whether every brain dreams in images or just feelings. Which, honestly, has just stressed me out now because if I don’t visualise things, then my dreams could just be a big, fat lie.

Omg this is insane to me! I’m a 1 and when I close my eyes it’s like watching a film! A blessing sometimes but also sometimes I just want my brain to shut up haha — Emma Reynolds 🦇 (@EmmaIllustrate) February 8, 2020

I'm really curious how many ARTISTS are a 5. Because I cannot draw a damn thing unless I visualize it first. https://t.co/k4X1M6iKMX — Steenz⁷! @ C2E2 B17 (@oheysteenz) February 8, 2020

Whoa! I’m definitely a 1 — I can see a detailed apple and turn it in my brain. Do you see vivid pictures when you dream, or is it also more about feelings? — Betsy Bauer (@bauerpower) February 8, 2020

However no one was more confused than the people who looked at the apple heads before reading the question. I guess they’re just doomed to visualise five apples at once forever.