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Music in Order of Appearence:
Aphex Twin - Curtains
PilotRedSun- fleece sbowkbs
Windows 96 - Hypnosis
Haircuts for Men - 手紙, は保つ
Red Haze - Neon Lights
Haircuts for Men - 夜の愛情
Pilotredsun - Death by Ecliptic Eye
Tobacco - Road Warrior Pisces
Наукоград - Звездопад
Tobacco - Refbatch
He started with browsing deviant art And now he's turning into Vsauce
Honestly, I’m here for it. It’s like vsauce from an artist perspective.
@FLIMSY VEIN yep. Followed by raunchy top ten lists lol
Hey deviantart, solar here.
as an artist, I understand this explanation of science much better, vsauce still cool doe
He became famous doing "in a nutshell" Now I stay for these beautiful essays
everyone is talking about the face reveal but I just saw a hat.
I saw Dr. P‘s wife
I just saw a fleshlight in front of a microphone
@@TerribleTonyShow chad energy
I just saw my favourite red Audi hat which is funny because I’m watching this right next to it.
What's a hat?
Rose= six inches with convoluted red form with a linear green attachment Glove= continuous brown form with folds Wife= hat
your comment made me laugh Thank you XD
Yeah, story smells like bs to me.
@@operator8014 Man hes a real person you can look it up more thoroughly if you want
@@ts4858 Real people can have fake stories. Ever heard of Jesus?
@@operator8014 lol look it up
When I was staying at a hotel about 7 years back, I woke up in the morning and although my vision was perfectly fine and I could see everything as well as I normally would, I had NO ability to comprehend what any of the objects were that I was viewing. This went on for about 20 seconds, I sat there looking around me completely bewildered and also quite frightened. I even saw a moving object which i was at least able to identify as a living thing but no idea what it was. My mind new it was some sort of creature, no idea what species, sex, if it was new to me or if I had known it before. The second the thing turned around and I was able to see a FACE it's like the rest of my visual comprehension clicked on and my brain went back to normal. The living moving thing I saw was actually my partner. I recognized the place at that point, too. I was in a hotel room. That thing is a telephone. This is a bed. That's a window. The brighter shapes across the objects are patches of morning sunlight from the window. Gravity keeps the objects sitting on the ground. All the faculties to recognize and identify things around me had temporarily been completely LOST. I still have no idea what caused this and it's been puzzling me ever since. But I do know that being shown a face was what triggered the return of my normal brain faculties. Thankfully it has never happened again.
This sounds like an ego death in my personal experience. I have experienced something extremely similar while under the effects of a strong dose of LSD. I could not recognize/remember who my friends were nor could I identify anything I was looking at. As hard as I attempted to I was unable to remember who I was, what I did on a daily basis, or even if I had an family. I was stuck in having these thought loops for what felt like an eternity but was rather probably 30 minutes to an hour which is still quite a long time to be in a state of ego dissolution. Oddly enough for how hellish it seemed to me at the time, looking at it in retrospect, if I were able to calm myself down from the extreme confusion I was facing I most likely would have been faced with the most blissful experience imaginable. Interestingly, Buddhists meditate for a lifetime to reach this same state of enlightenment(ego death) that you and I have seemingly both experienced so consider yourself lucky. I am unsure as to why you were in this state of being, but if you want to know more about what you experienced just search up the term “ego death” and you will find plenty of literature and videos to satiate your hunger for finding out about what you have experienced.
I've had a similar experience waking up in a hotel room, I think just from regaining consciousness in a relatively unfamiliar place. While half asleep, I thought I was in bed at home, as usual, so opening my eyes and suddenly being somewhere else was jarring. It took a few moments for my brain to process what I was seeing. "Where the HELL am I... oh yeah."
@@sydc3667 that happens to me a LOT. So weird but I think it’s more common than we think. There was a point in life that I would be doing something random such as taking a shower and as I had my eyes closed I guess my brain kinda “forgot” where I was so when I opened them I was so confused as to where I was and what direction I was facing in. Then it would suddenly snap back and I’d realize. The weirder aspect of this was that while I’d have my eyes closed or whatever I would be doing, I’d see a completely different environment around me as if I had just teleported. But it’d be SO disorienting. Lol
@@meloncholy413 holy fuck me too
Yeah, it's a problem with blood supply to the relevant part/s of the brain. Vasospasm, microvascular occlusion, etc. Unsettling and terrifying, but not really mysterious or cosmic. That's the thing with the brain...increasingly evident that all of "this" is a trick of chemistry/physiology.
That guy moving his mouth throughout the video almost looks like he’s lip syncing with Sands’ vocals perfectly.
Yeah the guy I hired is pretty good at it.
@@SolarSands bro if that was you, you were looking kinda fine my guy, you better not be single
@@SolarSands dude is he a professional? he seems really cool, whats his name lol
@@SolarSands I SEE THE LEGOS, BOY
@@killjoy5410 lol the TIE Fighter
Wait... Solar Sands' face isn't just a hourglass. It's all a lie-
i'm suing
69 likes *hmmmmmmmmmm*
Always has been....
It always has been
420 likes. Nice
I have aphantasia, yet I dream in full color. My whole life when I’d hear people say “imagine your relaxing on a beach” or count sheep jumping a fence”, I didn’t know they could actually “watch the movie” in their head. One advantage of having aphantasia is when I lay down to go to sleep, I see perfect pitch black and have no visual distractions. I loved your imagine truth and justice examples, I will use those to explain to people what I see in the future. If I lay still and try really hard, I can sometimes visualize simple objects for a fleeting moment. The best what I can describe it is like when you close your eyes after someone shines a flash light in your eyes and that bright image fades away quickly.
Ahh the complexity of only being able to experience your own experience. I cant imagine having aphantasia and sleeping with absolutely nothing (when i sleep i can see myself on a rock in the middle of an ocean reflecting the stars above and that puts me to sleep)
>"One advantage of having aphantasia is when I lay down to go to sleep, I see perfect pitch black and have no visual distractions." As someone who does have visualization, however limited - in my case there's no image "on the eyelids". It's only as distracting as inner monologue (if you have it voiced in your head) and can be subdued either by focusing on something else or letting it flow without giving any actual consideration. As for how it feels - somewhat similar to mental math in terms of keeping track of details and the brainspace it's happening in.
It's crazy because I see nothing no matter how hard I imagine too and have such vivid dreams that I can't tell them from reality. Then once completely awake immediately lose that sense of dreaminess if you can call it that
@@laimawolf6826 I literally drove my wife crazy asking her questions when I realized that some people can close their eyes “see things”. My experience is very similar to yours full vivid color dreams. But, while awake, I struggle to even have even random foggy simple shapes appear. The best I could do is almost like looking at the clouds on an overcast day and trying to create some type of arrangement or shapes out of the chaos.
I can't visualize stuff in my head but I do see faces when I close my eyes sometimes
the best way i can describe how my mind works with aphantasia is: imagine you have a computer where you can research any info you want, including images and videos but the screen is painted black, u can't actually SEE anything but somehow you still have access to all the info that the computer gives you, you are still able to understand perfectly any image that is showed in the computer, u just dont literally see anything :')
Yessss
Yes, exactly. I "know" what my home looks like if I imagine it, I just can't "see" it as an image on a screen. It's like I have access to the information contained in the image, but no the image itself. I can see things in my dreams though, even in vivid colors and details on rare occasions. I think it comes down to whether we are able to willfully simulate visual stimuli in our heads. It's probably similar to how some people don't have an inner voice. They probably "know" their thoughts the way that we "know" what an imagined object looks like, they just can't simulate the sound in their heads. I assume that people without aphantasia only "see" imagined objects if they close their eyes, so if they want to know what aphantasia is like, then they could try to imagine an apple while their eyes are still open. If my assumption is correct, then they won't actually see the apple when doing this, but they will still somehow have access to information about how it looks. For me it's like that even when my eyes are closed.
I don’t know why, but the most interesting part of this video to me is that Solar Sands is an actual human and not a weird vocaloid
He looks very fashionable.
LMAO
Lens my pfp what's good
He looks exactly how I imagined him, but with a stubble
It's surprising to see his face but he is also handsome and cool with his sunglasses.
Solar sands before: This art is bad, no you cant see my face Solar sands now: What if we can read your mind
You saw solar sans but wait for Solar sounds
I like this Solar Sands better tbh. Edits are epic and his commentary is just amazing.
it's like vsauce but somehow more nihilistic
None of those things are related
The next vsauce, perhaps.
as a person with aphantasisa, I wanted to try an experiment. I drew a simple cartoony cat, then took a good look at it, closed my eyes, and tried to draw it. It looked like a zucchini. I kept trying, and I got kind of close to drawing it perfectly. The only reason I was able to draw it was not because I was imagining an image in my head, but because I could (non-visually) remember where the pencil marks were.
As someone with Aphantasia myself, on the scale of 'nearly nothing' in mental imagery, I can say it's a little complicated and depends on how the person is centered. I am centered around the 'feel' of a place, person, or thing. Not actual touch, but an impression of it. A person can have a warm 'feeling' about them, and your home can 'feel' safe. I go largely off of that, myself. I'm sure other people go based off of other things.
Yes! A lot of my imagining or remembering is “emotional” or “vibe” based… it’s like I get a sort of emotionally coded info dump that places me in the mental landscape and then it just “is”. Very abstract / hard to explain.
I do that for characters in books even though I have strong mental imaging
Yeah like, if I work in the front of the restaurant, I have the front-of-the-restaurant feeling. But if I work in the back, I get a totally different feeling. It's like, you know it's the same building, but in memory it feels spatially different. ...Did that make sense???
So you're telling me he could identify his brother by his teeth but mistaken children for a water hydrant
Guy's probably trolling lol
The brain is more complex than we will ever begin to understand
As someone who is face blind, you grasp to what identifiers you can. Bad teath, strange nose, glasses. Anything to do with shape is a definite boon to identification.
Dude have you seen children? Once you’re like around 16-20 assuming you have a normal growth spurt you can’t even differentiate children from a dog in kids clothes.Children are basically like fire hydrants or garbage cans with black tops
I don't know, I pay so little attention to children that the only real thing I use to identify them is noise
solar sands: *interesting topic* everybody: YOU’RE NOT AN HOURGLASS???
TO BE FAIR, WR ALL THOUGHT HE WAS AN HOURGLASS
OMG I CAN SEE THE BOTTOM HALF OF HIS FACE???
Can't believe he isn't actually a simplistic circle made of orange shades
@@MPHJackson7 now your talking like him😭🤚
*an
I will never understand the concept of "seeing" things purely by imagining. The closest I can get is dreaming but that still seems like a long way from consciously deciding to picture an image in front of you whilst being disconnected from it
I think that the recent DALL-E AI is quite close to creating this. One thing to remember is that dreams are rarely (With exceptions) in high detail, often all that's present in your "Dream vision" is the thing in a room that you're focusing on. It's not crazy high res like 8k or anything of that sort.
The Dall-e is definitely like this. It NEVER gets faces right. But my friend did a prompt for Stalin and the rock (or something, I forgot), granted, they were black and white images. But it was oddly close.. which was unsettling because it never gets the faces right. And it also framed half of them in an old style frame.
@@jwalster9412 AI generators almost never get humans right, there's always some weird distortion, which makes it also weird when they get it right due to the unusuality.
@@Na_Turek we are similar to computers because we are the ones that made computers....
@@jwalster9412 @Saul Goodman It doesn't get faces right, not because it can't, but because the developers limited its ability to do so out of ethical reasons.
Eww my dreams are full movies not one item at a time lol
It took me a minute to realize that the mouth of the guy talking in a closet was synchronized with the audio of the video.
Same. I think that's because it wasn't
i was really confused if that's him or someone who was lip singing to the audio
FUCKING SAME
It took me a minute to realize that was solar sands
umm, Wat?
He’s wearing big sunglasses because he’s hiding his third eye
Or he's just small
Lmaoo
@Chad Brody The prime minister is a reptilian. 🤣I need this to be a fact
Maybe he's a cyclops, like in the bad Percy Jackson sequel
No he actually have no eyes
As a child I remember everything I thought about being something visual. When I thought of someone I would see their faces and they would be moving, like running for example. I could vividly see everything I thought about, for example a rubber duck. When thinking of something I would also quite literally see the words I was thinking about as if I was reading them. Nowadays I don't know if I still have that. Like I think I do but whenever I force myself to do it it doesn't really work. I can imagine things very well, but it's not the same anymore. The more I think about this I get more and more crazy.
Yes I feel like I've lost a lot of it since childhood
Can u still see the words u think about? For me it's completely normal but I think it's a type of synesthesia
I can imagine an apple on a table with details while spinning, but the entire image is always at like 50% transparency. If I imagine it with my eyes closed, it'll have like a dark layer on it making it duller. If I imagine it while looking at something bright/white, it'll have a layer of white over it.
That's not normal either. Normally it's a separate "screen" from the visual field, they don't mix
I’m exactly the same. Can colour objects in my mind, but never to full vibrancy because they are transparent. Detail is all there though.
I'm one of the ones with aphantasia who can't picture things in their head, but can hear and manipulate sound very well. I didn't even realise it until I was about 20 or 21. I always though "Picture this" was a metaphor.
Same, and I feel like if I didn't have it I would be so much better at art, at the same time it could very well be a blessing though oh god getting anxiety and actually SEEING the demons in your minds NAH that's too much for me
That must be rough, as an artist who has a 1 to 1 imagination, I often imagine images and draw them from memory without any issue. It’s very interesting to think of how someone like you would think. I use imagery for absolutely everything, even sound and other senses.
@@PainStarrr So you can genuinely just imagine something, and recreate it?
To be fair, it is a metaphor.
@@Jason-kd8ee I can’t imagine anything, except horses, horses I can see as blobs in my head. I also always thought “imagine this” was a metaphor haha. Didn’t know this wasn’t normal lol
His hair looks so fluffy. Also I wasn't expecting an existential crisis.
Literally me too
i wanna pet it lmao
something about knowing how little i see actually gets percieved freaked me out
My sister has fluffy hair and one of the kids in her class always say something about it like, wow you have fluffy hair
@@mrs.brightside4909 2
My friend has aphantasia, I forget a lot and ask things like, “how do you think this hair would look on me?” I feel really bad when I forget and he tells me for the billionth time that he can’t picture things.
I can only imagine an image so long as I’ve seen that *exact* object “Imagine an apple” *imagines apple slices on paper towel* “Now rotate the apple” “What?”
I think that the ability to have your thoughts be machine-readable will be a skill like any other, like writing or speaking. as neither writing or speaking are particularly clear indications of what one is thinking either
That would be cool, it really would be a super useful previz tool for filmmakers.
@@thecianinator I'd imagine in the future those without that skill are going to be seen as unintelegent, which has some pretty concerning social implications
Exactly! Glad someone said it
What a cool thought.
@@GleebyDeebyEeby Do you know if the sort of social implications that that would have are explored?
14:42 it’s drake in hotline bling
nice
nice
@Michael Barefield ok
@Michael Barefield Maybe his views n stuff spike up and down because he uploads like once a month??
@Michael Barefield I usually immediately doubt claims like these, but seeing as he's a Fortnite youtuber, I almost believe it.
I just came across your channel today and so far, I've forgotten to feed my dogs and start on dinner. Mind you, I began at around 2pm and it's now nearly 7pm. That, Sir, is the marker of excellent content!
I didn't know that people could imagine something in front of them. At a young age I could imagine the shape of something in my mind and see it, but only when I focused on it very heavily. Now as a young adult I can't see imagined objects at all. I can still imagine the shape of something, but it's like I can identify what I'm seeing without seeing it.
Almost like a very faint wireframe with data to the side that coordinates with certain parts of the wireframe? That’s the best analogy I’ve come up with to describe how I “see” things
Dunno if i have this, but i can easily just imagine images in my head. It's kinda like seeing something beyond the edge of your vision
“He could however identify Platonic solids” damn his wife got friend zoned in multiple dimensions!
Lol
*identity zoned*
Oh shit *and* she got called *fat* damn
hat-zoned
Do you guys ever try to imagine a song in your head but sometimes your mind just goes crazy and you keep reversing the song at a specific point like half a second back and keep doing it and it's hard to control?
Sometimes i have a thing were when i imagine a song and then it goes slowly and then it snaps back and goes faster and then it goes back to normal
i often get earworms of the most prominent part of a song and sometimes because of the music i occasionally dive into, the most prominent part is also the most annoying part take "build our machine" i havent heard in in a while so i might be off- but i remember hearing about 5 seconds of it with many many layers of conflicting music (its a song about a horror game so yeah) sometimes itd be 3 seconds or longer but it kept repeating and id hear every single layer clearly along with lyrics and background *and it was infuriating* i tend to blame my ADHD but idk if its actually abnormal or not
Sometimes I get a feeling like the ‘voice in my head’ or if I have a song stuck in my head or whatever is just randomly really loud. And I get kinda on edge because of that.
sometime I imagine people or things falling apart. Once I was trying to recall an episode of backyardigans and I kept imagining their heads just melting off, even if I tried not to. Idk if this counts s an intrusive thought or not but it's really annoying when that happens.
@@SM-qv2om definitely an intrusive thought. Lockdown etc has made the most irritating things come back, intrusively seeing and sensing whatever I'm eating/drinking to be rotten or full of bugs! Have had similar to you in the past, im 27 and over thr years been diagnosed with ocd, adhd and tourettes
I have 100% aphantasia but only realized it a year ago so when people used to tell me to "imagine you're on a beach" to relax I'd think of the properties of a beach (sand, water, umbrella and beachball) then try to think of a canvas and put them on it. I'd have a yellow strip for the bottom half and a blue strip for the top then add in my beachball and umbrella without ever seeing them so it'd just kind of be in my mind for a bit while actually SEEING just pour black. kinda makes me sad lol
I'm pretty sure that's normal.
Waked up after a Lucid nightmare once, and I literally got so frightened, I couldn't recognize my sister by her face. It just felt like, I was alone everywhere. UNTIL I REMEMBERED I HAD HOMEWORK.
This guy's entire world was probably like the "can you recognize anything in this picture" picture. Must have been terrifying.
i literally NEVER seen anyone misuse "your" with "you". New low, wow!
@@CoffeeTheDragon damn dude I accidentally pressed one key I shouldn't have while typing this out on my keyboard and missed it while reading over it, chill
You know what's even more terrifying, that happened once to a blind dude who was given sight through an eye transplant. He gained sight for the first time ever as an adult, but it turns out you actually have to learn to use your sight from infancy all the way to maturity. He was unable to recognize humans, he didn't have any depth perception, and whatever he was seeing, he apparently didn't like it because he killed himself not long after.
How the hell did he get a wife to begin with
@@hennepun6992 it didn't start happening until after he married i think
Took me longer than 20 seconds to realize he’s showing his face.
It’s actually a body actor.
Whoever that is, my imagination sees him 100% as Ryder from San Andreas.
Really hope he removes the sunglasses when indoors... is honestly a pretty bad look. Just be real and honest, dude looks hot no need for the sunglasses!
@@TipperProject I beg to differ I like the sunglasses too
It took me untill the end of the video
I have aphantasia and only discovered recently. I’d never heard of it before and it made so much sense. My dreams are more about feelings than pictures, my thoughts are not easily put into words. I’ve learned to describe it as being aware of concepts.
i don't have aphantasia, but your description of how you visualize is much more vivid than i experience. i can call to mind vague images of things, fluctuating outlines, splotches of color, the general vibe of depth of a form, but i can only really maintain one such detail at a time. but i'm really good at math, which feels to me like a surprisingly visual discipline; whether that's mentally performing algebra on visualized math symbols, or coming up with and manipulating visuals of systems which exhibit a particular relation in one or more of their properties, etc.. it'd be interesting to see how my mental models/methods compare to those of near-aphantasic artists.
I like how this channel is becoming a lot more psychological.
I like the progress tbh
@@ammagon4519 Me too actually. It gives me Vsauce vibes
@@Cpt_Natalia but with HAIR. a lot of it.
Missed the days where he would rant about a furry dystopian art figures
Cool
AHHHH WTF HE HAS A FACE AND ITS NOT AN HOURGLASS AHHHHH
NOO DAY RUINED
In my thoughts he still looks like an hour glass. Boom video solved
I thought you died on June 28th
The glasses just hide the hourglass.
thank you archduke franz ferdinand
Great video, and I love your analysis at the end.
Your channel has deffinitely boosted my interest in art
I‘m like really confused. When I concentrate about seeing an apple, I see absolutely nothing. Not even the slightest bit of color. Yet, when I want to sleep I can make up stories in my head, design chatakters, make backgrounds, everything.
I have the same thing happening to me. Maybe it has something to do with our level of concentration??
There's a thing called hypnagogic hallucinations, it happens on the transition to sleep, it seems that the mekanism responsible for the imagination in such condition, is similar to the one in a dream, which could explain your case.
That may be in part of maladaptive daydreaming.
YEESSS me too! When i'm not really concentrating my imagination gets so vivid i can actually forget about my surroundings, but i can't force myself to imagine something when someone asks me to if my life depends on it
I know exactly what you mean
Imagine being in school and your teacher notices you're not paying attention and starts playing your thoughts on the board 👀
I would socially be murdered
I'm 37 and that idea is making me nervous. Sounds horrifying. 😅
Sounds like something that would be very illegal. Personally I'd just intentionally think of something absolutely gruesome with the words "Mind your own business" in the center
OMG NO
@@Miss_Prowlheart haha
I’ve noticed that depending on your sleep habits dictate how vividly your dreams are and how well you remember them. If you stay up late and sleep in, especially if your body isn’t used to it, your dreams are usually very vivid and you can remember them like a story. And other times you just can’t. Sometimes, if I had a dream and I remembered every single event I’d write a story out of them. It great when your mind makes its own little stories
your dreams are more vivid when you sleep poorly because you are more likely to wake up halfway through a rem cycle
I have aphantasia and I experience the world through my senses mostly. I can remember smells, sounds and feelings so deeply that it can be debilitating sometimes. I have so much to say about this topic and I hope more discoveries are found in this field!
I wasn't expecting that face reveal. Nice
Is this a troll Edit: yo it wasn't
@@hamsacc wdym
@@hamsacc nope
@@meiysko Same.
Do not like
If you could project your imagination on a screen, then artists will be hungrier than ever
@@ivotcomer3183 yes
@@ivotcomer3183 you make a valid point. If we had the ability to do this. I wouldn’t want SCP:1004 anymore
I thought this for a while, but try imagining correct proportion of an entire image at the same time
I thought this comment was a joke about how artists would get really hungry when imagining their favorite foods
@@00maniacmanny00 lol no It's a common joke that artists are always hungry because they make little to no money
This reminds me of the mental pains of drawing illusion artwork. If you stare at the possibilities too long, you'll end up thinking simple things like tree stumps are leprechauns or abstract business signs are people standing next to the building (when stared at from a distance). Luckily for the non-artists, you can view these pieces in a few seconds or trip out on them longer to see into our imaginations, without being stuck with visual inconsistencies of an illness.
I think you are correct with the comparison. As somebody who can't imagine very well (red Apple shaped blob with a stem) I go by feeling. When I am told to think about a house, I have a feeling associated with it. It's the house feeling. Same with music. My mum says she can visualise the sheet music in front of her to read off of but for me, it's a feeling. This note feels like the right note to play after this one to make this melody. Imo it's an asset with music. Since I go by feeling, I pay attention to making it sound right instead of playing each note robotically off of an imaginary piece of sheet music. Gives me an edge in tone.
I went from “Holy shit this aphantasia shit sounds crazy” to “damn I can’t see the apple in my head WHY CAN’T I SEE THE APPLE IN MY HEAD”
Dam you might wanna get that checked out
DUDE SAME I JUST SEE SOME BLURRY ASS FUCKING SHIT AND I CAN BARELY PICTYRE IT WHATDUENGJWJND
@@livisliced I literally see a like a red circle with a stem and that’s the most detail I can see
because you are NPC
Aphantasia isn't all that rare in my experience.
Just imagine people with that disorder trying to pass an 'Im not a robot' test.
Omg
Agnosia is not a disorder per se! But it instead is a result of a brain lesion in a very specific area. So unless you plan to lesion your brain, you should be pretty safe :')
@@lasolady You make a point. Premise is nonetheless still funny yet unfortunate.
Maybe I am the robot.
Imagine believing you might be a robot
I think the ability to take thoughts directly from your mind may be fitting for taking notes and creating a back to back original idea VS final product. Sometimes I forget part of an idea when you try to construct it. I would love being able to take an original story idea, put it into an animation program, and draw on top of it to improve it. Or seeing my original idea and tweaking it in my head to generate an improved version using just the power of thoughts.
I think of things way too deeply most of the time, Its like being self aware in a way. It is scary an shes caused me OCD and anxiety, this video is an AMAZING way to describe things like this, Solarsands in general really is amazing.
The shock I felt when he casually appeared on screen. The amount of swag he exudes, I am swooning
the exaggerated swagger of a DeviantArt browser
honestly shocked, i might have to politely simp
i know right? no announcement of a semi-face reveal, it just happens. boom. right in your face. i love this man so much
i love everything about u please marry me
@@raspberry93 I'm currently running to your current location at a swift pace of 90 miles an hour, be there shortly.
When I was a little kid I would play “mind video games” where I would legit just play video games in my head and dominate everyone
epic
Same. Now I just make fight scenes and stuff in my head
@@randomdude5070 I once had a dream where I was essentially playing a VR shooter in dream form I also had a dream where I was shot and survived to shoot the guy back
@@vaclavjebavy5118 nice, my last dream I was hanging out with a homeless meth addict
@@randomdude5070 was he nice
I have been reflecting on a similar subject for two decades, in regards to music. As a composer of classical music, I often have dreams in which I enjoy listening to music, often through speakers or headphones, except... this music had never been written before! my mind composes it live, layers upon layers of beautifully orchestrated parts, in the most vivid way possible. When I wake up, this ability to auralize original music seems to vanish as if it never existed. I can play recorded opuses entirely from beginning to end (and I often do), but new music? that's a whole different story. The mind works in mysterious ways... and like a good scientist, I will continue to catch that elusive particle until I find it!
when i writing a book and daydreaming about it or getting inspiration and seeing images and full scenes in my head and even sentences, after i written it down in a document and reading it back its like it wasnt the scene i fully had in my head and its sometimes so frustrating but also quite interesting and fascinating that the mind is so different than real life. same happens for me with artwork (painting and drawing) i have it different in my head but my skills never match my imagination. maybe i imagine too vivid or my imagination is dreamlike. probably the reason i remember much of my dreams (and actually have a kind of Nightmare Disorder i developed though it could be just normal dreams that are vivid in my mind when trying to know what i dreamed of). Ocasionaly i have lucid dreams but the worst part about it is that when i'm trying too hard to get lucid it wouldnt work but when i'm not even trying i become lucid but because of not expecting it i lose it quickly or just wake up in another dream. reading books when i try to imagine the characters, sometimes its very hard. when writing story's i have visuals in my head and actually hear my characters talk when i'm writing said dialogue. so maybe i'm one of those people who have Hyperfantasia?! maybe, but i'm not sure.
Scientists: **hook me up to mind reading machine** "Is that... a shopping cart with shoes?"
Yooo...... YOOOOOOOOOOOO
He do be vibin’ doe
Bananadile
now thats fresh as fuck
YOOOOOOOOOOO YOOOOOOOOOOO
Who is this mysterious man, and why is he discussing existential philosophy in a closet?
Also please don't wear sunglasses inside, it's such an awkward thing some people do!
@@MysteriousLoppan for some people it's comforting to wear sunglasses while filming themselves. you don't have to think about looking into the camera at the right moments etc. The other thing is the stigma about wearing glasses indoors. you might have heard "only blind people and assholes wear sunglasses indoors" but in my personal opinion - i'm not the style police and even tho it's not my taste, if you want to wear sunglasses inside, go for it.
@@MysteriousLoppan Some people wear sunglasses due to anxiety. People not being able to see their eyes makes them feel less exposed.
@@MysteriousLoppan adequate lighting for recording can be blinding.
@@MysteriousLoppan personally, as someone who has migraines, sometimes it really helps to wear sunglasses inside lol. Though who knows why solar sands is wearin em, it might also be for anonymity
This is so interesting as someone with anphantasia, to answer your question I can remember images without having to describe them to what I assume people without it would. Its like how people daydream or go past their eyelids and into their mind.
I quite like the interesting psychological topics you delve into in your videos now. Prof fancies the essays I write about things like this.
how does a man so casually reveal his face in a video so strange and otherworldly that only his best fans would dare to watch it?
Cuz hes too cool
I thought his face was nerdy
true fan check
@@jamesjoe4654 Thought it was cool
I don't think the video concept is really too out there or something only "his best fans" would watch. This is just the style of videos he has moved to making. He doesn't do art criticism anymore, he does Vsauce-esque pop-science essays.
"Hey Vsauce, solar sands here"
Ye lol
It's funny because I just got here from his comment in vsauces vid in the illusion of time😂
@@floridabloodhound8779 .
I got here after a Vsauce video, Vsauces' Alzheimer's video.
@@bogan_tuba dude I just did that too 😳
This video actually got me to read Dr. Sacks' book. Really interesting. Thanks Solar :)
When I was younger my imagination was so vivid that sometimes in the dark I would see faint hallucinations of things. I’ve also always been able to picture images in my mind but it feels like the image just isn’t there, like it’s behind my physical eyes. I have no idea on the quality of the images though, but usually I only focus on one aspect. Like if I think of my house I just see my house but I have the knowledge of everything else that’s there. I don’t see anything else until I think about it though. What I mean by this is that if I think of my house I just have a general image of what it roughly looks like. When I think about the roof, I can see the exact shade and material. When I think of the garden I can visualise the plants there. Kind of like a microscope. Looking at an image is like looking at something out of focus, but I can focus on particular parts of the one image to make them clearer. On another note, I can imagine music extremely vividly. It’s just like listening to the actual thing. While my memory of lyrics might not be 100% accurate, I can imagine the beat and instruments very vividly. I can basically listen to music whenever I want. Maybe my visual imagination is below or around average but my auditory imagination is very high. One more thing, with the apple test, I can very easily imagine the apple in those circumstances. I can imagine what it’s like after taking a bite, I can imagine it in a table and casting a shadow. I can grab it and move it around but the animation quality of my mind feels like I took a video at 3 fps and got a computer to generate the frames in between to get it to 60fps. I only vividly imagine the starting image and the end image, but I can faintly see the process or animation. It’s a lot easier to visualise things I’ve seen, imagining something new usually results in a less vivid image. I can remember some of my dreams though. Not all of them, but if something stood out to me I can remember it, but I’m usually reminded of it through an experience the following day. Edit: I do have an internal monologue as well
Dude we got the same thing
I was in Art Class at school when I realised I had aphantasia. Of course the teacher said "Picture an apple, what colour is it? Is it perfectly round? Is it all one colour? Is it a uniform shape?" So everyone's drawing their apples and I'm thinking "oh so I just draw a generic apple" and the teacher said to me "no, picture it in your mind" and I just blinked at her and said "But I can't, no-one can" she thought I was lying 🤷🏾♀️👏🏾😂
@@Omna420 Try hyperosmia, it's where you have a heightened sense of smell. I've got it but it honestly sucks so candles and perfume kill me 😂 (not literally)
@@Omna420 imagining new colors is physically impossible for the human mind to do, crazy right?
@@Divine__. I think so, I can't image what another colour would look like physically, maybe we've discovered all the colours?
@@lechelechuza6852 We haven't, we're just physically limited by our eyes. There's more shades of colors, millions of them, that we can't see because it's the maximum we can see
@@SkySaito its so interesting to think about that we may never be able to see these colours.
God I'm crying. My immediate thought when he came on screen was "Oh hey Kurtis Conner is growing some facial hair."
Kurtissss
what the eff
when you find your neighbors from kurtis town here 😂💀
Yes he looks so much like him
What part of kurtis town are you from?
5:15 I guess? It’s basically like people trying to understand what a blind person sees(or correctly doesn’t see). It’s basically seeing the back of your eyelids no matter what you try. When I imagine an apple I know that it is round, mostly red and it’s average size, but I never actually see it
I don’t know why but i just bursted out in laughter after hearing “6 inches in length” on 1:15
“mr. p”
@@cloud..9…enis"
Maybe it was his di-
Solar Sands : Shows his face Me : I'm just going to ignore that and act like as if he's an hourglass
Funny
Me too.
Solar Sands looks like a 80's disco hippie crossed with a emo
like a grunge beatnik
It's a look tho
Thank you Ethan
he looks like lou reed LOL
Disco was in the late 60s-70s. The style of the 80s wasn't anything close to Disco influence
I seem to have this... I have never been able to visualize things in my mind... Yet, I could describe everything I imagine in perfect detail... How the sun set and the way the water moved down the river in my dream... I was never able to lucid dream like I wanted to... Yet, when I did, my dreams became so much more described... I can't see what I think, but I can hear and write about it mentally...
This really makes me think about well the way I think. I consider myself a very good visualizer when anyone says or mentions anything I visualize it. When I read a book I am visualize it like a movie playing in my mind while I read the words. The things that I visualize are often very very clear, this also happens when I dream. My dreams are often very detailed and usually in color. I rarely ever think something without visualizing it unless it's a concept. I can also visualize things I've never seen, especially landscapes. I think this is one of the main reasons why I find art so difficult. Because I have this perfect picture of it imagined in my mind but I have a really hard time putting it on paper (mostly because of lack of skill) I'll try to look up references that look exactly like what I'm thinking of but they're really hard to find (sometimes impossible)
Other KZheadrs making a face reveal: *nervous about showing their face for the first time* Solar Sands: *calmly makes face reveal* Edit: OHHH it’s just an actor nevermind dam I’m disappointed
I think odd1out did this
Yeah...that’s not him, that’s a body actor lol.
What if that's actually just your 'Mind's Eye' view of what you THINK he would look like if he did a face reveal?
@@petern.j.4121 well look at his reply on the top comment.
@@petern.j.4121 nvm it’s not top anymore.
lol i like how he's slowly but surely showing more of his face. it started with the hourglass mask, then sunglasses and a face mask, and now just the sunglasses. dope
@Smeebslol linear space video I believe
@Smeebslol he used a mask of his logo in some of his older videos (I'm sorry I don't remember the names, but it's a bit before* he slowed down with the deviantart series)
@Smeebslol oh, you mean the sunglasses and face mask one, sorry! I think it's one of the videos after the cowcat merch drop, but I'm not sure
Next he'll have no skin
@Smeebslol it was in one of his liminal space videos, when he was looking out of the car he was in and said something along the lines of "get in losers were gonna find some liminal spaces"
Coming across your channel just now is gonna change my life, I'm so sure of it. 😻
5:23 Hit me like a brick wall. I've thought for a while that I have aphantasia but because I'm artistic (designing crochet) I didn't think I could have it. But I'm on the verge of tears because there are actually people that struggle with visualizing things in my mind and still can make things. I have to have several reference photos and videos to make things freehand, but I can make them pretty accurately. And even thinking of the designs I make, they're very minimalist with 1-2 extremely distinct features letting you know what it is (wings and nose of a bat, nose and tail of a fox, gills and tail of an axolotl). I guess it's easy for me to do that because I don't really "see" those things in my mind, but more see the "concept" of what those things would look like. Idk, probably need to finally tell my therapist or doctor about this. Just had to share my self revelation.
Bruh I’ve been waiting for almost 5 years to see his faces and it took me a whole ass minute to understand that the dude with sunglasses was him😭
LMaoo same xD
SAME LMAO
SAME
LOL
Might wanna get your head checked out bruh
My imagination is somehow perfectly clear but blurry and unfocused when I try to think details.
Perfectly normal lol
Only people with super good memory can
I think it's because the images are actually ALWAYS blurry, but since we know what we're trying to imagine, we don't realize how blurry they are. Because regardless of how blurry it is, we know WHAT it is. But when we try to imagine details, something that depends upon actual good visuals, we realize that it is all blurry when we suddenly can't properly visualize these small details at all.
@@catpoke9557 Actually I think I've seen a video in which they talked about different levels of being able to imagine things, so some people have a more blurry imagination than others. For example I don't have the problem of blurriness when thinking of details.
Man mine's a little confusing, sometimes i can see a whole picture, mostly stuff I have seen already. Other times, I think when imagining a scene, I can't really focus on all of it at once and for details i have to isolate whatever it is and zoom in. I suppose my mind's eye is a little blurry.. that, or I can't properly visualize on command lol
I can vividly imagine things with their complete and accurate physical properties. I can even visualize the intricate details of gears and pistons and "render" an animation in my mind, simulating the mechanics to see if the gears turn smoothly or if they encounter too much friction. I created my first machines using my imagination when I was just three or four years old. Many of the inventions I later detailed on paper eventually became a reality, though not by my doing, because I lack the financial means. For example, I envisioned an electromagnet-powered levitating train similar to the one in Japan before I knew it existed. However, my version operated in a vacuum tube to minimize air resistance at high speeds and featured doors that would align with the tube using suction. A computer program would facilitate this by automatically initiating a docking procedure. All these ideas came to me when I was just 14 or 15 years old. Now, at 25, I am planning to start my own businesses after college.
this is such an interesting topic, thank you for this vid!
I love how you didn’t put “FaCe ReVeAl” on your title. No point of that drama. As fans, we shouldn’t even tell anyone that asks.
Tf are you talking about
@@morphiousm he literally first showed his face in this video
@@morphiousm a lot of youtubers who don’t show their faces make a face reveal video and make a huge deal out of it
@@user-xd4fw5wy6m what if its cgi like the moon landing
@@justinquintela3369 pfft! Moon landing fake? We all know the moon’s not even real! Wake up,sheep!!
I'm a maladaptive daydreamer with aphantasia. It's very frustrating spending hours everyday daydreaming, but not being able to see my daydreams. I have to write it like a book, and think about scenes in concepts rather than pictures. It's so crazy to me that most people can actually see things in their mind.
Same 🖐️ But I started writing down my dreams as soon as I wake up because my dreams are really awesome and imaginative. By doing that, I started seeing dreams more often and I love that.
I watch anime in my dreams sadly you cant :)
It's crazy realizing this now I thought everyone couldn't actually see images and just make a story.
It's so surprising to me you're bothered by this, because I have aphantasia and I've never had a daydream in my life. I thought active visualisation was required for daydreaming
Wait what they can see their thoughts...?
One of the best videos I've seen in a long time.
I'm an artist with aphantasia! I didn't realise that I did all those things mentioned in learning to draw and paint as well! I also think that learning art improved my mind's eye somewhat as well. From absolute nothing to a sort of blurry darkness with the vague impression of parts of it.
everyone that has drawn fanart of him with brown hair is going mad rn
@嘉嘉 you callin the man ugly?
isn't his hair just dark brown?
His hair is dark brown though
@@t.n.21 Ah but you see, thanks to my patchy and unreliable memory, I remembered that brown technically doesn’t exist since it’s just a weird shade of yellow.
@@AmphiStuG brown can range from being dark orange to dark yellow. But most times brown is just a dark orange.
it took me a second to realize it was a face reveal and not just a clip of someone speaking to talk over
@@hlwatson g
big brain
what's the time stamp
Same
ha ✊ looking for this comment.
Damn I literally have never heard of this condition but I think I do have some form of it. I can visualize things in my head but not very clearly at all and I literally almost never remember the dreams I have. As soon as you mentioned how these people can struggle to recall their dreams I was like wow because I only ever remember a dream maybe 5 times in an entire year it’s crazy to me that everyone else experiences that every night
Most people don't remember their dreams after getting into adulthood. Same for me. It's not because of any condition.
I have mild aphantasia. I can only just imagine an apple spinning in my mind, but only when I hold my breath and scrunch my eyes up for some reason. I can imagine a line, but as soon as it starts to try to move, it goes nuts. It changes shape, moves at many different speeds, and in a way pulsates. I've never been able to imagine a vertical line falling to a horizontal position smoothly. However I can still dream just fine, and recall what happens in said dreams. Colours, dimensions, people, fabrics, effects of wind, but I just can't visualise it. I can't imagine a person's face. You could ask me what my mum looks like, and all a would be able to say is "brown hair, fair skinned, with glasses." But that doesn't mean I wouldn't be able to recognise her on a big crowd. I know what people look like, but when it comes to actually describing what's seen, there's nothing. However, I'm also extremely artistic and i could draw a corridor at my school while inside a completely different classroom very accurately from memory Which is really weird, cause I'm also a visual learner. I'm confused by this alot. Any ideas??
I relate a lot with what you wrote!
this guy is just vsauce but he stays on a single topic
You realize vsauce wasn't the first person to make video essays / research interesting topics and give a speech about it, right?
@@letrollface3831 it doesn’t matter
@@letrollface3831 is just a joke, that for more people to understand it, he needs to use a person most people might know. I mean, I'm not subscribe to Vsause but I have seen his video. If he had used {insert someone else} less people will get the joke.
@@letrollface3831 of course someone like you had to pop in here. Get some rest and get out of your crabby mood.
@@letrollface3831 but vsauce does it best
He looks like a stock photo of a dad.
@Jennifer Gang Sunčane naočale*
@Jennifer Gang tay
@Jennifer Gang r/woooosh
@Jennifer Gang it's called L337 5P3AK I think, where things get changed to what some people would say... "Cooler" language Example 1v1 m3 n00b
Who? The lip sync guy?
It smells like someone changed the title last minute cuz it ended up fitting better xD Amazing Video! Was fun and interesting to watch
I beleive I have hyperphantasia, or atleast some form of it. I can imagine a person sitting next to me as vividly as if they were really there, and sometimes I get so lost in vivid imagery in my mind its hard to realise something I'm imagining isn't actually there. The only issue is I struggle greatly with geography. I forget places I've been 3 weeks ago and cant remember them other than by imaging where I am now and picturing myself walking left and right until I reach the place. This usually frustrates people quite a bit
As a kid, I remember I used to "break" my mind's eye. I'd imagine something so vivid and then go into more and more detail until I just went blank and wasn't able to imagine anything for the next hour or so
😳
huh
Yeet
How long did it take for you be able to imagine again??
ngl iwant to try that
love that hes not making a big deal about his face reveal
He didn’t even say anything about it or hint at it which was why it was so genuinely shocking for me and I fucking broke and shut down
Time stamp?
@@ladystarfire 2:57
wtf.. I was thinking that he was showing some one that has aphantasia but then i just realized its his own face btw he looks indian . haha( no racist comment)
@@ramuneric3208 Dude same, I forgot he wasn't a disembodied voice-
This has me wondering how good my visual imagination is. I can usually conjure up a pretty clear image in my head. Like for the apple, I can very clearly pull up the image. I usually think of a red apple, fairly round, and I can clearly sere the color gradients between the red and yellow, as well as the small color patterns all around it. My artistic ability outside of music is dismal though, so drawing it would be beyond me. I would imagine that reading so much when I was younger helped a lot. If it's a book, I can clearly see the whole entire setting and move around within it quite easily, with perfect detail. It's great for things like remembering spelling or directions, becaus4e I can clearly see the word or route in my head. But I have no idea where that would fall on the spectrum. I would imagine fairly high though
Not sure if I'm overthinking, but when I try the apple trick, I can be _aware_ of the contents of the apple, the shape it should portray, and the shine and color of what an apple should look like, but its not like anything actually that "vivid". I like thinking of it similar to that of a "screen" above my field of vision that I am looking at, similar to what you might do when looking above your computer/phone's screen or perhaps more of an overlay of your vision that you aren't actually seeing, but more like "recalling" a memory visually over what you're seeing. Try laying down on your side and putting something to partially obstruct either your left or right eye (I used a pillow) and simply attempt to switch your "main control and perception" to either eye (you'll see what I mean if you set it up right, seeing the pillow "engulf" your vision when switching to the partially obstructed eye). It's sort of similar to that, seeing the apple or whatever as your main focus when nothing is actually changing to what your eyes can see. Might've just explained the definition of "imagining" but seeing that I do not have anyone else to reflect off of, might as well tell this to a bunch of strangers pondering the same topic.
"What If You Could Project Your Imagination Onto a Screen?" There is not a more terrifying thought I could conjure than that
Just imagine what you would see if you hooked this guy up to the screen: kzhead.info/sun/mLukpZqjsXx3a2g/bejne.html
God the amount of horniey there would be on screen
@@KattalystFr that would be like 50% of it
Imagine if you could pull Nightmares out of people and then put them into other people for horror stories or torture. Good and bad, but mostly bad
mine would be a black screen with maybe fuzzy grey idea of an object
Maybe the "face reveal" is just our imagination of how he looks
😳
But im seeing him in my imagination as hourglass in the middle of desert
This video is just so fascinating I love it
I must be pretty unusual based on the descriptions given, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was simply due to the relatively low amount of research that has been done. I have aphantasia but also extremely vivid dreams I can recall and recount fairly easily if I think about them right away after waking up. I have lucid dreams pretty frequently, too. My dreams tend to have elements of all senses - taste, touch, smell, weight, etc. including sometimes feeling tired and wanting to go to sleep, even though I already am.