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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.

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 […]