Hi, so I need to ask everyone. How well can you see afterimages? If you don't know what those are, it's when you see an image and quickly look away, your brain still sends signals of the image you looked away from… in theory.
I read a paper that suggested this effect could be either non existent or extremely faint for those with aphantasia. I was trying to read my textbook for Psychology and an example of it was on page, but I couldn't see an afterimage.
What are your experiences?
I am an aphant; I did a lot of acid in the ’70s – now that I think back, I am not sure what the visuals were like (also have SDAM). That is the setup – I was in Paris many years ago and visited ‘La Defense’. There was an exhibit of portraits that were ugly, really, really ugly until I looked away I saw (don’t know what other word to use here) the actual painting; the artist used complementary colors on the canvas to fade those colors and allow the mind to perceive the other side of the complementary colors. Since I can not see images in my head, I have no idea how my brain produced the complementary images (I am new to aphantasia)
Well, for those like myself, we have zero images in the first place so what would we see when quickly looking away? Perhaps those who have partial imagery could offer their experiences.
