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Is my Aphantasia caused by mindfulness meditation?

When I was a child, I could imagine something vividly before falling asleep. And I really liked reading visual novel until the second year of my mindfulness meditation practice because creating a scene became very difficult for me. I just couldn’t imagine anything vividly any more and I can’t do visualization meditatin(which is not necessary […]

Multisensory Aphantasia and Empathy

To begin, let me clarify my understanding of empathy vs sympathy.  Empathy means experiencing someone else’s emotions while sympathy is an ability to understand them.  I have full multi-sensory aphantasia, meaning  I have no internal sensory response to thoughts, memories, or imaginings.  In discussing the experience of empathy with non-aphants I realized that I also […]

Can you heal acquired aphantasia?

Hi! I have been a big vizualizer and daydreamer my whole life without any problems.  Now though i cant visualize at all, and i Feel like i cant daydream, because they have always been so visual.  My aphantasia/blank mind is most likely due to psych meds and a concussion i had. The psych meds caused […]

Which characteristics are due to aphantasia?

I read many comments that ascribe certain characteristics to aphantasia – often contradicting comments in other posts (e.g. someone said they are able to follow a map without having a picture of it in their mind and they suggest this may be due to aphantasia; whereas I have a terrible sense of direction and cannot […]

Problem with pinpointing pain?

I don’t often feel pain. But when I do, I usually find it hard to pinpoint exactly where it hurts, and I need to try and use my hand to prick and push until I find the correct location. And I’m not always successful. I think maybe this process requires visualizing the inside of the […]

Aphantasia and dependency on the unconscious

A couple of weeks ago Prof Joel Pearson asked A question on twitter about how one with Aphantasia recomized a familiar face in a crowd, and I responded ‘I just have a confidence that I will recognize the person I am looking for when I see them – and I do.’ And that led me […]

Recent VOX Podcast

I just listened to the podcast on aphantasia VOX put out recently and I’m having a lot of feelings. Since learning about aphantasia a year and a half ago, I’ve passively dealt with having a different view of the world than those around me. I’ve known we all “see” things differently and it’s mostly been […]

Self-Improvement Work

I discovered I had aphantasia when I was reading a self-work book of mine and it had told me to lay back with my eyes closed and truly visualize my future. After trying to hard I finished with a headache, I realized I couldn’t form the desciptive images of my dream house, the career I […]

Getting “rid” of Aphantasia

I discovered I have Aphantasia after I started smoking (with a med card).  While smoking, I am able to “visualize” images which is something I thought was metaphorical in the past.  Am I the only one who experiences this?  I anyone wants/needs further explanation, please let me know!