Can you see ghosts?

I was conversing with a group of friends, and they all shared at least one "supernatural" experience, such as encountering ghosts or witnessing strange lights. As a skeptic, I firmly believe that these experiences are merely products of their imagination. However, I've had an intriguing thought: could individuals with aphantasia, like myself, perceive ghosts? If […]

Dyslexia and Aphantasia

I'm on here because my 17 year old daughter is aphantasic. She is also dyslexic. It's very frustrating when everyone automatically thinks "if she's dyslexic then she must be really creative, as dyslexics are known to use imaginative creativity to overcome the challenges of expressing themselves with words." The dyslexia is diagnosed but not Aphantasia […]

Is this aphantasia?

Hello! Could you please tell me if I have aphantasia or not? I was researching meditation techniques, and people mentioned being able to visualize entire rooms—like imagining a chair, table, carpet, and so on. Do they actually "see" these things as if in a video game? After looking into it, I thought I might have […]

Hallucinigenic Induced Aphantasia?

When I was young, I could imagine images vividly. I created escapist worlds before I fell asleep at times. I still dream in images. I did have a pretty good amount of childhood trauma and bad nightmares, but that also led towards drug use in my late teen years. This included hallucinigenics. (this was 30 […]

Hoffman Process

Curious if anyone in this network has done the Hoffman Process, an intense personal development, self-help 7-day retreat that uses, in part, visual meditations. More at hoffmaninstitute.org

On the verge of sleep

Hello all, I've only recently learned about aphantasia and that it's an actual condition. I always thought that when people spoke of picturing things in their heads, they meant it as some type of metaphor. Not that they could actually see it in their minds. Now learning that true visualization is normal, it's been a […]

Afterimages

Hi, so I need to ask everyone. How well can you see afterimages? If you don't know what those are, it's when you see an image and quickly look away, your brain still sends signals of the image you looked away from… in theory. I read a paper that suggested this effect could be either […]

Have you ever felt like your mind holds images you can’t quite “see”?

One of the most common experiences shared in our community is the challenge of explaining to others how people with aphantasia (who can’t consciously visualize) can “know” what something looks like without being able to “see” it in our minds. Many can instantly recognize our car in a parking lot, navigate our home in the […]

Do you know what you look like?

As I learn more about Aphantasia from all your posts I have new questions. So a few days ago I wondered if I'd be able to picture my face after staring at it in a mirror. I already know I've never been able to picture my loved ones and best friends but what about an […]

The difference in genius? Разница гениальности?

Good day to everyone! Всем добрый день! The languages I speak are Russian, English, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Arabic, Kazakh, and Japanese. Языки, на которых я разговариваю, — русский, английский, французский, китайский, немецкий, итальянский, арабский, казахский, японский. My areas of understanding include economics, statistics, marketing, sales, department management, design, physics, mathematics, linguistics, business management, and, […]