Do I have aphantasia, or is it something else?

Hi Everyone!  I used to assume I had aphantasia, because I can’t visualize things “on command” – like a pink elephant, for example. However, I watched a YouTube video recently that was like “visualize an apple. what colour is it? etc” and I don’t physically see an apple, but I knew that it was red. I sometimes […]

Im 32 and I have only just found this website. My experience

Hi everyone, I can’t believe I’ve only just found this network and honestly, I only learnt about Asphantasia about a year ago and blew it off probably because putting an actual name to something which has annoyed me for as long as I can remember made it all feel a bit too real. About me: […]

non dare un immagine al pensiero o associare ai pensieri ricordi

Solo oggi all eta di 17 anni scopro di soffrire di hypofantasia, dopo essermi informato sull arggomento mi chiedevo se quello che facessi io sia una cosa normale o personale. Io quando devo immaginare qualcosa non creo un immagine ma la prelevo dai ricordi, ad esempio se voglio immaginare una mela la collego ad un […]

I Visualized Once and Discovered I couldn’t Anymore?..

Hello, I discovered that I might have/had aphantasia, a little over a year ago. I was going to sleep a lot later than usual and I felt peculiar and I was thinking of a drawn face and somehow the image appeared in my mind’s eye, then I pictured another object and it worked as well. […]

For those of you who lost the ability to visualise, was it sudden or a degradation over time?

This is a little investigatory as I am new to the term Aphantasia and looking into if it is something I am effected by, I came across Aphantasia in the last year while looking for answers but didn’t think it applied to me as I used to have a very vivid memory, or so I […]

Do people actually project an image over their mind when their eyes are closed?

Hi everyone, So, I’ve been strugling a lot these past few months about the idea of Aphantasia. I’ve done a bunch of tests and read articles about this, but I can’t seem to spot a concise criteria of what it is to “create a visual image”. My my question for all of you is the […]

Aphantasis vs Vascular Dementia

My wife Selina had two major operations in 2002.  After the second one she was a different person and I gradually realised that she had lost the ability to visualise anything.  I can only assume that she suffered a minor stroke during surgery.  The diagnosis from the medics is vascular dementia but she has been […]

Minds eye – but only when (half) asleep!

I had a strange experience the other day. I was asleep and dreaming about something – I can’t remember what, my dreams tend to have a visual element but are usually fairly unsaturated and maybe blurry. Then I half-woke up around 6am and saw a cornfield in front of my eyes – it was quite […]

Reading fiction with aphantasia

Well, i’ll start at the beginning which is that I figured out today that the ‘mind’s eye’ which everyone talks about is not metaphorical, as I always thought. When people told me to visualise a scene or imagine anything, I never considered the possibility that they could really see a scene when they closed their […]

Daydreams

I’ve always wondered what other aphantasiacs experience when they daydream. I can only describe it as listening to an audiobook where every character is voiced, but all sounds, smells, feelings, textures, and tastes are also present. Is it the same for everyone? I know some people are missing other senses like sounds or touch, but […]