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Theme: Strategies

Navigate the world of image-free thinking with our Strategies section at Aphantasia Network. Here, you’ll find articles detailing how individuals with aphantasia create, tackle problems, meditate, and more, without mental imagery. Do you have a unique approach or method that’s worked for you? Discover how you can share and publish your strategy and help fellow aphantasics unlock new avenues of thought and action.

token thinking, type thinking, abstract thinking
Strategies
The Power of Abstract Thinking in Aphantasia
The concept of 'tokens' and 'types' helped me understand how we think differently: visualizers use specific imagery, while aphantasics excel in abstract thinking.
Tom Ebeyer and Aphantasia Network
on February 12, 2024
Without visualization
Strategies
3 Ways to Motivate Yourself Without Visualization
How do you stay motivated to achieve your goals if you can't visualize them? Discover alternative motivational strategies without visualization.
Tom Ebeyer and Aphantasia Network
on January 8, 2024
apple illusion, afterimage, negative afterimage
Strategies
Aphants! Looking for that Elusive Apple? Look No Further—Try This Apple Illusion!
How can one explain the experience of visualization to someone who has never experienced it? Enter the afterimage apple illusion.
Aphantasia Network
on October 30, 2023
ball on the table, conceptualizer
Strategies
The Ball on a Table: How to Tell the Difference Between Visualizers and Conceptualizers
Visualize (picture, imagine, whatever you want to call it) a ball on a table. Now, imagine someone walks up to the table and gives the ball a push. What happens to the ball?
Aphantasia Network
on October 8, 2023
Learning and Remembering
Strategies
Learning and Remembering, With or Without Aphantasia
Memory is tricky whether you have aphantasia or not. Here are some strategies you can use to learn and remember.
Alice Grebanier
on September 3, 2023
Aphantasia, Neurodiversity, and Aphantasia
Strategies
Aphantasia, Neurodiversity, and Healing
A psychology practitioner begins to bridge the gap between practitioner and client in relation to aphantasia.
Rebecca McHale
on August 20, 2023
Meditate with Aphantasia
Strategies
Meditate With Aphantasia
Many easy ways to meditate without a mind’s eye. Next time you find yourself frustrated by the inability to visualize in meditation, give some of these alternatives a try.
Jim Collison
on August 30, 2022
Mental Images and the Design Process
Strategies
Mental Images and the Design Process
When I learned about aphantasia I began to wonder... How might the vividness of our individual imaginations impact our design process?
Melanie Scheer
on July 6, 2022
visualizing the invisible
Strategies
Visualizing the Invisible
What do typical visualizers experience? How does my imaginative experience compare? Designer Melanie Scheer introduces a new way to visualize the visual imagination spectrum.
Melanie Scheer
on June 15, 2022
visualisation
Strategies
Visualisation and Why We Don’t Need it to Make Visual Art
Artists, writers, illustrators, photographers and all people who work with their creative impulses are not limited by their aphantasia.
Elina Cerla
on May 9, 2022