I unlocked visualization
1 min readByRavi M.
Hi All. I also have aphantasia. However, I wanted to share that a small number of times in my life, when doing certain activities, I was able to unlock the ability to visualization. Furthermore, when this happened, the imagery was vivid and intuitively controllable. The activities that led to this unlocking were (1) running and (2) hot yoga.
This is significant for a number of reasons. Perhaps others may have some luck as well with unlocking visualization with such activities. If anyone else has been able to unlock the ability in other ways, I'd love to hear about that as well.
In general though, it suggests that the activities (running and hot yoga) are having some effect on the brain that makes mental imagery work. This implies that people with aphantasia may actually be able to unlock mental imagery. It also may provide a valuable way of studying the difference in brain activity when mental imagery is occurring, and when it is blank.
I welcome any thoughts on the above.