@karasuyama01c6dt · Joined November 2026
On “How do people with aphantasia imagine and emotionally connect with their future?”
Thank you very much for taking the time to share your thoughts and experiences. Your perspective helped me realize that motivation can take many different forms. I was particularly interested in what you said about focusing on the present and finding satisfaction and enjoyment in what you are doing, rather than being driven by future goals. I also find it difficult to vividly imagine my future success, and I've often felt that traditional self-help advice about visualizing goals doesn't quite work for me. Your response helped me understand that being unable to visualize the future doesn't necessarily mean lacking motivation. Perhaps we simply experience motivation differently. I don't know whether this is a common characteristic of aphantasia, but hearing from someone with a similar perspective has been very meaningful to me. Thank you again for sharing your experience. I truly appreciate it.
On “How do people with aphantasia imagine and emotionally connect with their future?”
Hi Jon, Thank you very much for sharing your experience. I was surprised by how closely your experience matches my own, especially your difficulty imagining long-term personal goals and finding motivation through visualization. I have also spent a lot of time studying personal development and success philosophies, but I could never understand how people could vividly imagine their future and feel excited about it. Like you, I can set specific goals for work, but imagining my personal future and feeling emotionally connected to it is much more difficult. Since discovering aphantasia, I have started to understand why so many things that seemed natural to others never made sense to me. Your story about working with a performance coach was particularly interesting. May I ask one question? Have you found any other way to feel excited or motivated about your future, without relying on mental imagery? Thank you again. It means a lot to hear from someone who has had such similar experiences.