Ryan Hazen

I read about it in the New Yorker a couple days ago. I immediately realize that I was hyperphantasic. I took the questionnaire and I’m in the 98 percentile. It was stunning to realize. I had never even considered that other people do not perceive what I perceive. I never even questioned it. All I can say is that it was nothing short of a tectonic shift in my understanding myself and my relationships and my personality traits. I barely scratched the surface, reflecting on events in my life must have been shaped by it. Sometimes I feel like it was a superpower, and others I felt like it was a crushing burden. But I’m glad to be able to put his name on it and do you understand that other people experience things so differently