@barbarasnapp
Joined about 5 years agoI am a science teacher and reasearcher. I am retired, but still teaching in a life-long learning organization that offers enrichment courses to senior citizens. While preparing for a course on the brain in 2021, I stumbled on an article about aphantasia - and discovered why I see only blackness when asked to close my eyes and "visualize". Fascinating!
I, too, discovered haiku before I realized I had complete aphantasia. I wrote haiku when I took some painting classes for the first time. Looking at a scene I wanted to paint, I would use haiku to "speak" the feeling/image I wanted to get across (and photographs helped!). Later, when teaching a course on "Time, SPace, and Other Big Ideas" to people my age (60's and older), I would write haiku to crystallize the essence of an idea I wanted to get across to my course participants. So now I have 150 haiku on the nature of the universe - and have used some of my art to accompany them. I love haiku for its succinct, to-the-point messaging. haiku open minds evoking thoughts, scenes, events whether seen or not