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Hypophantasia

My minds eye can very easily visualise, for example, a person's walk or what they were wearing…Though can not visualise their face. I have a vivid imagination, though not in images, its an internal dialogue, like a radio, or a movie with just sound, not image (though sound is not heard, but can recall sound). […]

Aphantasia and Dreams

Hi everyone, I have discovered i have Aphantasia, but i have very vivid lucid dreams. For many years, when i was younger my lucid dreams were in the darkness but i read something somewhere in my 20's which told me to do 'vision on' as a command in my dream. Since then my visualisations have […]

Aphantasia and Body Dysmorphia

I'm new to the community so I apologize if this overlaps another discussion! Growing up I have always grappled with body dysmorphia — the image of my body has never existed as one thing to me and I have alwasy struggled with "seeing" myself as I really am or as others see me. I tend […]

Aphantasia & Design – Looking for Guest Speaker (Paid)

Hi everyone! I’m a product design student at the AMD Academy of Fashion and Design in Hamburg, currently taking part in the Innovationlab module. I´m working on a project that focus on the topic Aphantasia to help people by imagination. I’m looking for someone with Aphantasia who works in design, art, or another creative field, […]

No mind’s eye? What about a mind’s nose?

Hello! I'm new here. My name is Sam, and I'm an artist with aphantasia. I did not understand this about myself until a couple years ago, and always thought the language of visualization was metaphorical. I've always been an artist, crafting, drawing, painting, sculpting, any visual media I could get my hands on. I think […]

Aphantasia and eye contact

I am in my 80's and only a few years ago discovered aphantasia. After getting over the idea that "the Mind's Eye" is more than a poetic metaphor and realizing that my near total lack of visual images was unusual, I became fascinated by the relationship to memory, my biographical memory is very poor. One […]

foveated thinking

Human vision is "foveated". This means we only have high visual acuity in a tiny portion of our field of view, with really crappy acuity just a few degrees off of our line of sight. The reason we don't perceive the world as fuzzy in the periphery is that we constantly scan our "pencil of […]