Topic: Visualization

Visualization is the ability to form a mental image. It involves forming a picture of an object or scene without direct visual input, using imagination and memory. Our capacity for visualization varies widely. While some can create incredibly vivid and lifelike mental images, for the majority, visualization tends to function as a weaker form of visual perception, often resulting in less detailed and more fleeting images.

How aphantasia affects mental health treatment, revealing that while aphantasics don't experience visual flashbacks, they still feel emotions intensely, requiring alternative therapeutic approaches beyond traditional imagery-based techniques.
Did the ancient Greeks know some people can’t create mental images? The forgotten history of ekphrasis challenges our assumptions about imagination and offers surprising insights into our image-saturated world.
The concept of 'tokens' and 'types' helped me understand how we think differently: visualizers use specific imagery, while aphantasics excel in abstract thinking.
How do you stay motivated to achieve your goals if you can't visualize them? Discover alternative motivational strategies without visualization.
This optical afterimage experiment allows people who can't visualize to temporarily 'see' an image that isn't there—using visual perception to demonstrate what others experience through imagination.
The Ball on a Table experiment is a simple visualization test that reveals whether you think in pictures (visualizer) or concepts (conceptualizer). This revealing experiment, originally credited to u/Caaaarrrl, takes less than a minute but provides profound insights into how your mind processes information.
Understanding the hidden assumptions that lead to biases against aphantasics’ cognitive abilities.
Visualization is often used in mental wellness and therapy, but what does this mean for those with aphantasia?
Journey to the hidden world of dragons. A guided meditation for aphantasics. No mind's eye required.
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.
October 16, 2024
For many years I have been frustrated by my inability to use visualization for 'self-help.' Many programs, such as NLP, are based on visualization ...
August 11, 2024
I've never read anyone say what they mean by "visualize" when they say they "can" or "can't" "visualize". T...
August 7, 2024
So, I've known I've had aphantasia for quite some time now and 99% sure it's trauma-based for me. I've asked here before if there's ...
Hello all. So, this is going to be long and I'm not really sure if I'm in the right spot. So if I'm not please do tell me so I don't clo...
So, I’ve known I’ve had aphantasia for a while now, nothing new there. However, I’ve made yet another discovery today that people even close their eyes and, ...
November 25, 2022
I am an athlete who appears to have aphantasia, struggling with conventional wisdom to employ visualization techniques as a rehearsal/practice method. Worse,...
May 13, 2022
I can’t experience or perceive an image at will but I can access details of previous visual memories.  I can also experience and perceive hypnogogic im...
October 23, 2021
Hi everyone, So, I’ve been strugling a lot these past few months about the idea of Aphantasia. I’ve done a bunch of tests and read articles about...
August 14, 2021
Hello, my name is Willow, I’m in my thirties and just yesterday I stumbled across an article about aphantasia, I have never heard of it before. Since e...
What if everything you thought you knew about creativity was wrong? In this exclusive interview, the scientist who discovered aphantasia unveils the "new science of imagination" and explains why the ability to picture things in your mind might not be as essential to human creativity as we once believed. Prepare to have your understanding of the mind completely transformed.
May 7, 2025
How do aphantasics relive their memories and do these differences show up in their brains? Researcher Merlin Monzel joins Aphantasia Network to share new findings on aphantasia and memory.
April 30, 2024