Do we have any study on is breath pattern between aphantasia and non aphantasia person?
Hi fellow fighters, First tell me about my self, My name is Buchibabu. Last year i found my self having aphantasia. I always struggled to get events/ images in my mind and found i have aphantasia. From last more than year, i am practicing mediation where i have to focus just on breath. Many fellow […]
Aphantasia and being a strong shoulder
I hypothesise that having aphantasia helps with helping others in emotionally challenging situations. I experience that people around me struggle to hear, for example, a detailed story about sexual abuse; it is simply too intense for them to even hear about it from a victim. So, I was wondering if maybe their ability to visualise […]
My Take
Yep I'm neurodivergent, quadruple fold. I'm dyslexic, I have SDAM, Aphantasia and most likely ADHD. I'm not broken, I'm different; I like to think of myself as evolved. This is my life. I live in the moment (hours, days, up to about 3 months). There is no past for me (personally, people, events), it fades […]
Aphantasia & EMDR
Does anyone have any experience with EMDR treatment? I'm interested in how effective it can be for us Aphants since much of the practice involves visualization. When I do a Google search, I don't find any related articles, however, their AI chat bot mentions that "Individuals with aphantasia, who have difficulty forming mental images, may […]
Acquired Aphantasia
Hi, I am really struggling with this and am wondering if anyone has managed to re obtain their ability to see imagery. I am an artist and used to be able to picture concepts in my mind but realised this slipping away and becoming more and more difficult, until the ability left completely a few […]
Visual recall or memory storage?
Is it really that we can't recall images or is it just that no visual imagery is stored in our memory? What if aphantasia is a memory storage problem more than a visual recall problem? Like we're only working with saving word documents and spreadsheets over pdfs and jpgs? Our brains just don't have pdf […]
learning languages
I'm curious about other people with aphantasia and their experiences with learning languages. I write fiction for a living, so I feel like I've got some facility with at least English. But in my youth, I tried to learn French and German and found that it was essentially impossible for me. Even ASL, which should […]
Affect on perception of things
Can having aphantasia, hyperphantasia affect my perception of some things like images, videos or text that induce visualization especially or ads that I see.
How would you describe your ability – or inability – to see things in your mind?
Hi, I’m new here and only came across the term aphantasia yesterday. I have trouble recognizing people – if I’ve only seen someone once or twice, I often don’t realize I’ve met them before when I see them again. I can completely mix people up because of this, and sometimes it’s uncomfortable. It happened to […]
Can Visualize, but Foggy On Colors?
I'm not aphantasic, I'm hypophantasic and it's been really hard to explain it. I can visualize patterns well, but really foggy. Better than colors though. Whenever I imagine something that I haven't defined the colors yet, I can see the colors but I don't know what the color is. Not that I don't know what […]