Just found out I’m aphantasic at 68

I chanced upon a radio programme last week about aphantasia and was absolutely gobsmacked to find out that most people can really visualise things!  All these years I thought everyone only saw darkness when they closed their eyes.   It’s blown my mind.   I asked my husband what he sees and he’s the same […]

Whether Aphantasia Is exclusively visual.

I’m pretty sure based on previous conversations, that Aphantasia is the inability to recall all senses, like sight,  taste, touch, sound, etc. But this website’s description (and thus what shows up if you look it up on google) says its excursively visual or at least fails to mention it can affect the ability to recall […]

Shapes behind closed eyelids

So, I’ve known I’ve had aphantasia for a while now, nothing new there. However, I’ve made yet another discovery today that people even close their eyes and, without imagining things, see static or a pattern similar to the bottom of a pool, moving. Now, it was a video and obviously commenters aren’t always experts but […]

Homesickness and aphantasia?

Hello, i recently discovered that I have aphantasia. I also left my family recently to live in a different country for a year. This might sound bad, but I never felt homesick. Of course I sometime missed my old life, but I never cried and it never made it impossible for me to enjoy my […]

Aphantasia & Dyslexia

Has anyone here been diagnosed with dyslexia but also has Aphantasia? I was diagnosed with dyslexia as a child as I struggled to read and spell. I have recently realised that I actually have Aphantasia  and was wondering if this could be the cause of my dyslexic traits as I cannot picture the words in my […]

I have aphantasia, but somehow can picture dynamics and movement…

Okay, it’s not exactly that I can visualize movement. I don’t know how to explain it, it’s without visuals yet I can still imagine movement almost as Vivid as seeing it in real life. Also I can imagine Dynamics, something like a blueprint for map or a location from a bird’s eye view, except there […]

Is this aphantasia?

Hey, I recently discovered that I probably have aphantasia, but I am not completely sure. I can’t visualize touch smell or taste, i can’t even remember how things tasted smelled or felt besides some descriptive words, and I can not see new imagines. Sometimes, when I am calm and there is nothing to distract me […]

Aphantasia….Or Is It Actually Something Else

So, I can’t visualize.  Sort of.  I can audiate.  I can dream in pictures.  I can even daydream in pictures.  But the thing is, I can’t call up an image and see it.  It blinks out too fast.  I think what I’m experiencing is not strictly Aphantasia, but the other thing which I am certain […]

Rewind Therapy: Knowledge or Experience Anyone?

I am troubled at present by PTSD. I have heard about Rewind Therapy – that it is highly effective without the need to re-live nasty stuff, but that it may depend upon the ability to visualize.  Have any of you Aphantasics used it, either successfully or unsuccessfully?

What do typical visualizers experience?

Hi, I’m new to this group. I recently discovered that I may have aphantasia, but it’s hard to tell because I don’t know what other people mean when they say they “see” something in their minds. I’m wondering if anyone knows how to describe this experience, for comparison.