I seem to be a bit of a mix. I think I am mostly a conceptualiser, but as I’ve become more aware of the spectrum of experiences I’ve become hyper-aware of what my mind may or may not be doing. The table was the timber dining table I was sitting at as I did the experiment. The ball was a yellow kids ball with a bell in it that we own, but I only added that detail after being asked for the colour. Once I added it, I could conceptualise the physics of it falling off the table and the probable sound it made. The person was a disembodied arm that pushed the ball with zero imagery and detail.

When taking this test, I didn’t visualize or barely conceptualize, my brain simply noted the facts— there’s a ball, on a table, someone pushes it. There are no details, because I don’t have that information.

I've done this test and few times since finding out about aphantasia, the best I can do is it see nothing but black. However i know the ball is a basket ball on a wooden dining table and it's a man that pushed it, but it's purely conceptual. The best analogy I can come up with is this. If you have a picture or photograph in a frame on your living room wall, stare at it at night with the lights turned off. You know the picture is there and you know what it looks like, you can describe it, but all you can see is blackness.

Thought really hard but nothing , I can’t picture a colour when I think about it. it’s not really a problem except for if I’m reading or remembering people’s faces. Weirdly I have extremely vivid dreams. Very interesting.

I didn't visualize the scene, but I could answer some questions immediately. The ball was a billiard ball specifically - but I can't have 'seen' it, as it was of no particular colour. The table was rectangular and wooden, but I think this is just my idea of a 'platonic' table. The person was a lady, but specifically the lady who was the last person to walk past me. Sometimes I feel as though an image flashes in my mind for a fraction of a second, but it is so ephemeral that even a detail such as the colour of the ball is beyond my grasp. It is so impossible to recall the image, that I can't be certain it even happened.

I am fully a conceptualizer. I don't even attempt to see the ball or the table because I've never visualized things at will. But I did notice that when asked for more details about the ball and the table, my brain supplied a description of a white-ish ball with a blue star on it, on a square wooden table. I'm pretty sure that's an image from a picture book that I am remembering, though I'm not sure which one. I find I can usually remember pictures that I've seen in more detail than I can remember experiences.

I think the visualizer/conceptualizer distinction needs refinement. I am multi-sensory aphantasic in the sense that I have no sensory experience when I imagine things. However, I think more visually than conceptually. When I think “horse”, I don’t think of or about the various attributes of a horse. Rather, a horse appears in my imagination. It has no attributes of a visual image, but it has a presence. The closest analogy I can think of is seeing a horse in a field from a mile away when you have been told that there’s a horse, and no other animal, in the field. It’s too far away for you to have any visual information, except perhaps whether it’s stationary or moving, but you know you are “seeing a horse”. Now, think about that distant image being present in your mind as an object that’s much closer, but with no additional detail. That’s more or less what I perceive (without actually "seeing" even that vague image) when I think “horse”. When I imagine a table with a ball on it, I have very few details to offer (except that the table has legs and is not round), not even when I’m asked the specific questions. But when I do that act of imagining, there is a “table” object present in my mind, not merely a set of attributes and functions. When I say I think visually, my best example is trying to remember where a mislaid household object (e.g., keys or a wallet) is. I try to visualize (without seeing) where I last saw it and run through various possibilities until I have a sense of the object being present.

I know the ball will fall and bounce. After prompting, I think of the ball being about 5 inches in diameter- a kid's play ball, and i really don't care about the color. I do not see anything when asked to visualize anything. I think of the characteristics, or bring up a memory of the person, place, thing, or event. I am starting to meditate, so I can visualize some things- shapes, shadows - during meditation.

I'm aphantastic. For me, I know the ball is about the size of a ping-pong ball, and the table is rectangular. I know nothing about the visuals (e.g. colors, brightness, etc.), nor do I hear anything (do non-aphants hear the ball hit the ground?). If I picture a ping pong ball in front of me, I see nothing other than what my eyes show me, but I know exactly how much size it takes up. If it is a basketball I "picture", again I do not see anything (and don't even realize it is orange unless asked), but it will take up more space in front of me. I just know it is there.

I visualised/saw(?) a wooden table with a red plastic ball on it, and a nondescript person pushed it. Nondescript, because the ball was the centre of my focus, and the table secondary. If the Q were phrased differently, the focus would change.

the ball on the table, to me, I imagined a flat surface or just a horizontal line with a brown circle on top. When I imagine someone touching the ball, I see nobody but the 2-dimensional ball rolls to the right.It's different when I read books (I'm a rally slow reader mainly reading eather technical manuals or phantasy novels -Terry Pratchett's diskworld is my favorite series) the writer puts in so many details, I can practically imagine being there.I love Agatha Christie but I can't read her books. The filmed versions are wonderfull. I should try audiobooks to see if it matters.

I might fit in a different category? I can “see” an image for a SPLIT SECOND and then it goes away and I can’t grasp it again. This isn’t captured in apple test or ball test.

I'm a conceptualizer. I don't watch videos or spend much time listening to people ramble over and over. Most of whom I am near are visualizers. Their pictured worlds are heavily judged and assessed, also. I wonder ...

I can barely see a very vague table, no obvious legs, no floor, just a square table top. All very vague, no sharply defined edges. A circular something with no sharp edges, no highlights, no shading, no color, baseball-sized ball. No image of a person other than perhaps a ghostlike black outline. I know the person pushes the ball, but it does not move in my mind's eye. I know it might fall off, but it never moves in my mind's eye and I can't imagine what it looks like as it falls.

I just discovered that I have aphantasia. It definitely sucks, but the silver lining is that it hasn't harmed my career or relationships or love of life... and maybe has even helped.

I discovered I have Aphantasia 4 days ago and I’m still reeling. I’m 64. I tried the ball on the table experiment and couldn’t answer the questions. I just ‘imagined’ it like a maths problem. I do have vivid dreams occasionally so I know what I’m missing and I’m gutted I don’t have this superpower. Every day now has a new bombshell. Today was my friend saying “you mean when you listen to audio books you can’t visualise the story?” Yup. That’s me

I discovered that I'm a global aphantasic with SDAM a few years ago at age 69 after reading an article I stumbled upon. My subsequent inquiries led me to the aphantasia network which has really helped me understand basically my whole life! So thank you for that. When asked about the ball I determined that there was a ball, I decided it would be blue, I decided there was a woman although I had no idea what she looked like nor did I have an inclination to decide, and that the table would be a card table that the ball would roll off of. Although I enjoy reading books that have a great deal of visual detail I personally like to keep descriptions of things very simple. Thanks so much for the valuable service you are providing to the community. I'm enjoying the research studies and dialogues immensely.

Well this was hilarious and I did laugh out loud at the baffling questions, especially the ones about the person! What I appear to do is to hold space for the idea of a ball on top of the space for the idea of a table with the idea of a human next to it who could push the ball. When asked about the ball, I said that because the ball is just an idea it could be any colour, texture, pattern or size you want it to be, and therefore I couldn’t supply any of the answers. The same for the table and the person. I didn’t visualise or imagine any of these details even when asked those specific questions. It’s purely a ‘blank’ concept. Logically I had reasoned that an imaginary ball could be a medium sized ball eg about the size of a basketball, and that logically the table wouldn’t need to be big in order to hold the ball. But these were just logical thoughts with no visuals or details.

For me, I can picture Vividly whatever ball I decide, being pushed by whoever, wearing whatever and on whatever kind of table, but I have to consciously Choose each one, otherwise it keeps flipping between all possible options for the concept I am picturing. for instance, take trying to draw an apple? simple enough, all apples look similar...but halfway through the drawing there is a bite out of the apple, now its a pie, maybe its still on the tree? or its rotten and got a worm sticking out of it. and trying to colour it is the worst because nothing Looks right until I decide Exactly what colours are Supposed to be where and set in stone what kind of apple it is because its impossible to capture the concept of All apples. another is a lake scene, just picturing waves lapping at the shore of a forested lake...but sometimes its winter, or there is a mountain in the background. oop there's a fish I have to hold onto each detail that i want to remain constant, and constantly repeat them until the image is solidified...and hope it doesn't slip

I saw a green Tennisball on that table which is shown at the top of this page. When it comes to who pushed it… well I saw myself reached out to that Tennisball on some elevated place. Can’t see that table nor that I pushed the ball.