Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire
VVIQ total score: 32
Your VVIQ Result: Hypophantasic
You have hypophantasia, which means you experience some visual imagery, but it's less vivid or detailed than average. When you try to picture something, you might see faint or fleeting images.
VVIQ is only one indicator and is not intended to be a conclusive diagnostic of your internal experience.
Your Profile vs Population
This histogram shows the distribution of VVIQ scores across the population (5,010 people) based on the Beran dataset. Your score is marked with a red line. The purple dashed lines show different aphantasia thresholds used by researchers: 24 (which we use at the Aphantasia Network) and 33 (used by other researchers). The green dashed line shows the hyperphantasia threshold (70). Learn more about the Beran dataset.
Your score of 32 places you at approximately the 5th percentile of the population.
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What is Hypophantasia?
Phantasia is the ability to picture things in your mind. The word comes from ancient times when thinkers like Aristotle talked about how our minds can create mental pictures. Hypo-phantasia means a reduced capacity to form mental images, hypo- meaning 'low.' It's almost like experiencing aphantasia, or no mental images. People with hypophantasia may have some visual imagination, but it tends to be less vivid or detailed like a fuzzy or black-and-white film.
What does this mean?
Hypophantasia is a fascinating point on the visual imagination spectrum. It may influence:
- How you process visual information
- Your approach to creative tasks
- The way you recall memories
Many hypophantasics find unique ways to compensate for less vivid imagery, often excelling in fields that require abstract thinking.
Subsection Score Distributions
These charts show how your scores compare to everyone else for each subsection. The blue bars show where most people score (middle 50% of scores), the gray lines show the 10th-90th percentile range, and your individual scores are marked with red dots. Each subsection has 4 questions scored 1-5, so possible scores range from 4-20.
Explore Your Mind's Eye
Curious about your hypophantasic experience? Ponder these questions:
- How would you describe the visual images you can conjure?
- Do some types of imagery (objects, faces, scenes) come more easily than others?
- How do your visualization abilities affect your day-to-day life?
How You Compare to Others
How far your scores are from the average, measured in standard deviations. 0 means average; positive values are above average, negative below. Z-scores help you understand how unusual your performance is in each category compared to the general population. A z-score of +1 means you scored higher than about 84% of people, while -1 means you scored higher than about 16% of people.
The Visual Imagination Spectrum
Your hypophantasic experience places you on the visual imagination spectrum:
Aphantasia <-> Hypophantasia <-> Phantasia <-> Hyperphantasia
Each point on this spectrum represents a unique way of experiencing the world. By understanding our differences, we gain insights into the diversity of human cognition.
Response Pattern Heat Map
Each row is a VVIQ question (Q01-Q16). Each column is a response option (1-5). Darker squares mean more people chose that option. Your choice is marked with a red outline when available. Q03 is highlighted due to known response effects - this question about "carriage and step" tends to produce different response patterns and is often used by researchers to identify potential response biases.
Percentile Rankings
This dashboard shows your percentile ranking across all metrics. Each bar represents how you compare to the population - higher percentages mean you visualize more vividly than that percentage of the population. For example, 75% means you visualize more vividly than 75% of the population.
Overall VVIQ performance
Social imagination ability
Natural phenomena visualization
Urban environment imagery
Geographical scenery
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