Vividness of Visual Imagery Quiz
Discover the vividness of your mind's eye
You're probably phantasic
If you were able to visualize moderately realistic or even reasonably vivid scenarios in the VVIQ, this probably means you are phantasic. The majority of people are phantasic with varying degrees of visual imagery vividness. Some more than others.
Keep in mind your VVIQ result is just one possible indicator and is not meant to serve as a conclusive assessment. Important to know this quiz only measures the vividness of your visual imagination and does not consider other sensory domains.
If you imagine your favourite dish can you almost smell or taste the food in your mind? Imaginative experiences vary greatly from person to person — there exists a wide spectrum from no mental imagery to hyper-vivid imagination. Both extremes have their pros and cons. Mental imagery can be a useful cognitive tool and an intrusive one, as you can probably imagine.
What new research and ground-breaking discoveries into extreme imagination reveals is, — We all imagine differently and these invisible differences impact how we think, create, and dream.
All signs point to yes! Practice occasionally seeing a few images as vivid and clear as you can in your mind for even just a second, then relax and allow your mental images to be less vivid. Do that a few times a day and you may start to notice an improvement over time.
No. VVIQ only measures the vividness of your visual imagination, it does not consider the other sensory domains. We’re currently collaborating with world-leading scientists and mental imagery experts to develop a new multi-sensory mental imagery assessment. Want to be the first to try our new psychometric when it launches? Sign-up for our newsletter.
Well, that depends. How well do you know your own thoughts? Turns out you may know your thoughts better than you think you do. Research has provided a growing body of behavioural and neuroimaging evidence that suggests we have a pretty good understanding of our thoughts when it comes to mental imagery. Read more here.
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ABOUT APHANTASIA
Aphantasia is not a disorder,
and Aphantasics can be
richly imaginative
Extreme Imagination
Aphantasia is a way of experiencing
the world differently, which results
in an alternative way of thinking
HISTORY OF APHANTASIA
History of extreme imagination
started way before the term
“aphantasia” came to be
SCIENCE OF APHANTASIA
Aphantasia Index
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imagination. Explore aphantasia
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