Bob Plass

I'll try to figure something out in my head and it's good until I need to work something out in "another" part of my brain. Once I've figured it out and need to go back to the original problem, it's gone, no idea of what it was. I don't know if this is age (84) or something else.

In all my trips on any drug, I've never had and hallucination!

I'm 80 and I've done a lot of hallucinogenics and I've never had an hallucination!  I now know why. A week ago, I'd never heard of aphantasia. New things keep popping up. I've already started on a move called "Aphantasia." It's just a black screen for 90 minutes!

I'm 80 and un-discovered my "mind's eye" a couple of months ago. It got a name, aphantasia, a few days ago. Looking back, a lot of pieces started to drop in. This is another! I was never good at chess but I killed at checkers. Just thought of another. Pool. Can't shoot a game of pool to save my life but I can make incredible shots. I just have no idea of where the cue ball will land.

I'm 80 and un-discovered my "mind's eye" a couple of months ago. It got a name a few days ago. Looking back, a lot of pieces started to drop in.  When I think of an image, I sometimes get a split second "image" that totally disappears. Another interesting thing has to do with hallucinogens. I have taken a lot but I've never had an hallucination.  

I have the logo! A black oval with the word Aphantasia also in black. ???

Hi Ian, I understand your spatial models completely. I do the same. In my teens I built and flew free-flight model airplanes competitively. They varied in size from 250 sq. inch up to a 1700 sq. inch monster. I never made plans and the only aid I had was a piece of butcher paper with a long horizontal line with perpendicular lines coming off it. This was my building template to keep things aligned. They were successful and people would ask about plans and I'd tell them there weren't any and they'd get mad as they thought I was lying. It was hard to explain. I've "designed" and built or modified hundreds of things in my life, all without drawings. I'm new to aphantasia having learned about it last week.