Total Aphantasia

I am in my late 60's, and I just last week realized that Aphantasia / mind blindness was a "thing" (condition) that actually exists, and that I apparently have had it my entire life. While this news explains MANY things over my years that haven't quite added up, it also has pulled the proverbial rug […]

Any artists like painters around? Anyone who loves to draw?

Just joined today. I've loved to draw since I was very young. My parents always made sure I had paper and drawing materials even though this was kind of a foreign thing for them and no one else on either side of my family was "artistic". Fast forward after some years of working in a […]

Mind Processing Area for no images

OK – first day member: I discovered Aphantasia maybe 5 years ago. My wife would talk about how she pictured this or that. I thought nothing about it for years but then began to really question her about her pictures and movies ….. it took a while but then I decided to Google the situation […]

Do i really have (visual) aphantasia?

Hello dearest community, kind of a weird question to ask I guess. But I really can't seem to figure it out. There are the tests and I talk to other people and from what I get there is a difference for me. BUT: I have no clue if I just have a very weird understanding […]

Latin Poetry – in pictures

Almost simultaneously realising that I am an aphant (three days ago, at the age of 71) and that this "difference" has had a fundamental and positive impact on my whole career as a teacher of Latin, should, I hope, enable me to regard it as a superpower rather than a deficiency…. The Roman poet Horace […]

Headaches from dreaming

I am brand new to learning I have this. I was stunned. But it may explain something and I wondered about others. I have vivid, colorful, active dreams occasionally. Not all the time. But when I do, I awake exhausted and with an intense headache. I now wonder if this is because of my Aphantasia. […]

Is Aphantasia a short cut?

I wonder if my mind just prefers to process the raw data from my memory without bothering to reconstruct the pictures. Clearly the memory is there or I would not be able to recognise faces etc. Maybe I just cut out a step. If this is true, could this more direct remembering help reduce internal […]

A Blind Mind’s Eye my Aphantasia

A few people cannot conjure up any sound, texture, taste, smell, emotion, or any imagery from their past using their mind's eye. Mind's eye blindness is now called aphantasia. In 2015, I saw something online that asked me to apply for a study. I took several surveys and online interviews with Exeter University in the […]

I dislike calling Aphantasia a diagnosis

To me, being a Aphantasian, I dislike being diagnozed with Aphantasia. To me it is just a trait, a charateistic I have. Just like so many other traits we as humans might, for the good and bad, are born with. I think most of us have realizd some of us are looking at the world […]

UK NHS 111 Service will test for Aphantasia

I called NHS 111 to ask what the best way to receive a formal Aphantasia diagnosis (it's currently impossible to get a GP appointment) and they said they could do it over the phone. I havn't tried it yet, but given that they are available 24/7 you cannot knock it. I need a medical diagnosis […]