Aphantasia and photography
Like everyone else, I found only recently (at 59y) about my aphantasia, which I would consider partial rather than total. I find that if I'm trying to conjure a mental image, say of my deceased mother, from living memories I come up mostly blank, but I can conjure her image much more clearly as photographs that I've taken during my life. I started my photography hobby quite young, around 11, and always thought it was a random choice of activity, but am now thinking it might have been fulfilling a deeper need, to help capture those memory images before they disappeared. Anyone else like this ?