Liên Vũ Kim

On “Has anyone found meditation that works without visualization?”

Solfeggio music, which is just the same frequency for the whole song, works on me for some reason. I just keep listening to these for sleep from then on.

On “Do you have lucid dreams? How does your aphantasia affect them?”

My dreams are really lucid. I don't know why I struggle to imagine things in real life but stories appear in my dreams like a visual novel.

On “Authors/Artists/other creators with Aphantasia?”

This is pretty weird. I was planning to open a discussion about lack of aphantasia representations in media, but I guess it's usually people with hyperphantasia who create works for pop culture.

On “Aphantasia is NOT "Imagery Blindsight"”

That's what I meant when I say "salvaged thoughts", by the way.

On “Aphantasia is NOT "Imagery Blindsight"”

To be frank, the article is technically not wrong. Aphantasia has not been widely researched, but the current consensus is that aphantasia forces the brain to think about objects more figuratively. This meant that the complementary strategies are just to salvage whatever is remaining inside the brain, rather than actively getting the literal content.

On “VVIQ - Visual Imagery Questionnaire - Suggestion”

You are probably suffering from cognitive dissonance, since this is a very recent field, and the typical experience is indeed that imagination is literal across all senses.

On “SDAM vs. Shame”

But for my aphantasia, I tend to get embarassed in social settings, because I tend to think deeply about situations without activelt imagining them.

On “Learning Hanzi in spite of being an aphant”

My only complaint is the "false friend" Hanzi, or Hanzi used in casual settings, and I bet a lot of Japanese people get confused, but these are common in China and Malaysia.

Learning logographic characters can be surprisingly intuitive without visualization—anyone else find memorizing radicals easier?

On “Aphantasia and photography”

I have the same experience as well. I only think of images of deceased family members rather than themselves exactly. I hardly had any real memory beyond photos, which is why I take photos of interesting events.

On “Can people with Aphantasia perform item rotation/manipulation tasks?”

Because I study computers, this is not really a problem as I turn the visual problem into a coordinate geometrical one. Just mapping each coordinate to a number and than thinking about the rotational transformations of the numbers is enough for me to figure out, since the wrong answer has no such transformation.

On “Does SDAM increase the likelihood of becoming an Expat?”

If someone with SDAM has their families drifting apart: Absolutely. If someone with SDAM still have their families together: No.

On “Aphantasia vs visual activity in the brain”

This is a bit far-fetched, since whoever think reconstructing what a person see is the same thing that what they imagine must have equated the two together metaphysically, even though seeing is an external process while imagining is internal.

On “Four Weird Tricks ( #6 will blow your socks off!)”

For whatever reason I can remember numbers of very specific things like bank account and mobile phone carriers but then get confused of several other numbers.

On “I couldn’t answer the questions in the test.”

Perhaps my main issue with the VVIQ questionnaire is the subjective judgement of one's visual perception. From what I can tell, I also have a roughly similar experience, although it's not really "a flash shot" but rather "a flickering projection". Multiple-choice tests do not address people's actual thinking processes, only hinting at them.