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Memory Capabilities

I’m 17 years old and have had total, multi-sensory aphantasia all my life, although I only realized mental senses could even exist a few months ago. From what I’ve gathered, the vast majority of people with aphantasia have a hard time with memory (especially people/faces), but I don’t have nearly as much difficulty, and I […]

New discovery

I just discovered yesterday that I probably have aphantasia. I’m 34 and did not realized that other people can see images in their mind. I assumed they were speaking figuratively. My mind is a bit blown right now as I digest everything. It’s already made a lot of things in my past start to “click” […]

Why?

I have aphantasia – lifelong – in all senses  – very little episodic memory.  And yet I dream vividly.  I can’t picture my Mother, or my son as a child – but they appeared in my dream last night as vivid as reality.  Also, I am going deaf ( i am very old) and in […]

Heavy emotions in any situation

I found out more than ten years ago that I am affected by aphantasia. In turn, logic is very strong, which makes me weigh every decision in life beforehand. I am not able to imagine any pictures or moments, so I live in the here and now.With the help of photos, I can remember the […]

Photographer with aphantasia

So I discovered that I have Aphatasia last year (2021) at the grand age of 66. I had never thought about it before – I know I forget books easily, I can never recall characters names or their situations. I do dream with pictures funnily enough . My husband finds it amusing that he can […]

Introduction and a general question

Hi all My name is Hannah Winter, though it is possible that you know who I am from my reddit user id The_BT and creator of the Aphantasia subreddit (over 7 years ago) though I do not actively moderate the subreddit There has been something on my mind a lot about aphantasia and I think […]

Recognizing people

I don’t have Prosopagnosia, only aphantasia yet recognizing someone I have not seen in months or years can be difficult. Usually their voice causes me to realize who they are or sometimes a particular visual attribute tips me off such as their hair color/style. When working in retail I see a steady stream of faces. […]

I think we remember feelings, experiences but not sensations.

I found out yesterday itself, that am aphantasic. Ofcourse been thinking about it… Hypothesis – I think that we ( guess atleast me)  don’t remember sensations (taste, smell, sight, touch, sound).. we only remember experience. Backing – I never used to remember what someone wore at some occasion, neither able to quote exact sentences of […]

Aphantasic Author

Anyone else with aphantasia who writes fiction for fun or professionally. I’m curious since you obviously can’t see your characters and world how do you imagine or write stories?   For me its a series of decisions then once I know a general plot or the character well enough, what happens just comes to me. […]