Originally published at: Fish checks itself out in a mirror before picking a fight - Boing Boing
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I would have imagined that any fish that had been kept in a glass tank for a while might have got used to the idea that its reflection was visible sometimes. But I’ve not been inside a fish tank to know whether the reflections are there or not.
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What have you been doing with your life?
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Sigh.
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Now I want to be inside a large aquarium tank to see if I can see my own reflection… also because I like swimming.
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If only there were some way to see what it looks like inside an aquarium without climbing in. 
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You know that thing where you sit in a pool while some sort of fish nibble your dead skin away?
This is how they do it for heads.
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At risk of potentially quibbling in an article that is primarily about how certain fish can tell whether or not they are badwrasse by looking in the mirror; the honestly kind of weird thing about aphantasia is how it (mostly) doesn’t interfere with task like size comparison that one might naively expect to work by generating a mental image and comparing it to the visual one.
There may well be some differences(not actually sure in which direction) that you could tease out with careful testing; but it’s not like people who can’t visualize things are incapable of telling whether they are larger or smaller than others or eyeballing whether or not a suitcase will go into the overhead compartment or the like.
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