Topic: Relationships

Discovering you, your partner or family members, have aphantasia and/or hyperphantasia can bring new perspectives to our relationships. Both romantic and familial. Do ‘opposites attract’? Can these imagination extremes deepen our understanding and appreciation for each other? What unique challenges and joys do these invisible differences in how we internalize our experiences bring to a relationship? For some, having different levels of visualization and sensory imagination can be a source of fascination and mutual learning. Discover stories and discussions around aphantasia and relationships.

Whether you’re an aphant or a visualizer, marriage, or any loving partnership, is about commitment. Among other things, commitment means respecting each other’s differences and working through them lovingly.
We’re not — aphants don’t see the world the way most people do. Our brains work differently.
When I learned that I had aphantasia and that my husband of 40 years has hyperphantasia, it gave the idea “opposites attract” a whole new meaning.
I have aphantasia. Do my siblings have it? What about my parents? Is aphantasia hereditary?
Sex and aphantasia can be a tricky business. As an aphantasic, I couldn't picture the person of my desire, so relied on the mental equivalent of text files.
What if instead of asking what the aphantasic brain can't do, we asked what is it built to do? Jim, a dad with a mind's eye, discovers four of his six children have aphantasia.
My journey understanding the cognitive profiles of aphantasia and hyperphantasia started when I learned at age 30 that most of you have a superpower I don’t.
Discovering my husband can't picture things in his mind helped us navigate miscommunications in our relationship.
What do you mean you can't picture a horse? For visualizers, it's hard to imagine what it's like not to visualize.
March 20, 2023
Serious question. Sexual fantasy is an important part of life. I see nothing when I think of a beach or a naked woman, so porno films give me what the rest o...
March 6, 2020
I was wondering if literally not being able to picture a future with someone and staying in the here & now affects anyone else’s relationship? We h...
November 25, 2019
Recently, I was in discussion with one of my friends about sexual attraction and aphantasia. Has anyone got any experience with asexuality/demisexuality and ...
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