The world's front door for aphantasia

In 2014, Tom Ebeyer realized he couldn't see pictures in his mind. There was no name for it yet, no community to find, and no research he could read. A year later, he became one of the first 21 people clinically studied in Adam Zeman's 2015 Cortex paper — the study that named the trait “aphantasia.” Tom co-founded the Aphantasia Network with Jennifer McDougall to build what didn't exist when he needed it: a community, a research library, and the resources clinicians and educators need to recognize the 4%. Today it's the largest aphantasia community in the world.

A decade of building the resources we wished had existed:

• Built the largest aphantasia community in the world
• Convened the 2021 Extreme Imagination Conference, bringing aphantasia researchers and the community together for the first time at scale
• Collected the largest publicly known dataset on visual imagery, with 1.5M+ survey responses and growing
• Published 112+ articles and 10+ video interviews across the spectrum of imagery research and lived experience
• Trained clinicians and educators to recognize and adapt to aphantasia in practice

Three commitments shape every page, course, and conversation:

• Treat aphantasia as a difference to understand, not a deficit to fix.
• Make every claim science-backed, citable, and grounded in primary research.
• Build for both the 4% who live it and the clinicians, educators, and researchers who serve them.