你好，我今年 25 岁，刚刚意识到自己患有象皮病。 至少，我想我是这样认为的。 闭上眼睛，我看到的是灰黑色。 我只能看到眼皮后面的字面意思。 因此，如果你让我想象一个物体，从物理角度讲，我并不能 “看到 “我眼前的任何东西。 但是，我怎么知道物体是什么样子的呢？ 我觉得我几乎可以在脑海中勾勒出更久远的画面。 它更像是一个概念？
如果你让我想象我的母亲，我知道她长什么样。 我可以挑出她的皮肤、眼睛、平时的穿着等细节，但感觉不像一个完整的形象？ 我必须逐一想到这些东西，才能 “想象 “出来。
所以，我想我可能处于幻觉症的谱系中？ 睁眼和闭眼有区别吗？ 我想，如果我无法判断自己是否患有这种疾病，那就意味着我可能在某种程度上患有这种疾病。 我真的是今天才发现的，好像是一个小时前，笑死我了。 我周一要去见我的心理医生，会问问她是否了解这方面的情况。 但无论如何，这都有点令人着迷，因为我想我能比以前更好地探索自己的思维是如何运作的！
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Hello Nyila, thanks for sharing your experience!
Most people physically see black when their eyes are closed.” Visualizing with your mind’s eye” is not like real “seeing with your eyes” but comparing the image in your head (if you are able) with how you know it looks in real life can help identify where you might fall on the spectrum of visual imagination.
Your point about “almost picturing it” further back in your head is where the important nuance is. It sounds like you may experience more dim or very vague imagery? Which might be indicative of hypophantasia, or “almost aphantasia.”
We have some great resources you can explore further, I’d recommend:
Evaluating the Mind’s Eye
Understanding the Nuances of My Aphantasia
Discovering You: Therapy and Aphantasia
Hope these are helpful to you in your self-exploration! You’re right, discovering aphantasia, offers us all a window of perspective into our internal worlds to better understand our own minds. Quite fascinating, indeed!
I really like your statement “I feel like I can almost picture it further back in my mind. It’s more of a concept?”
It’s the same with me. I have no problem with drawing shapes, describing them or with spatial orientation or anything like that. I verbally guided other people to do visualization exercises – but I can’t create images in my mind … for me it’s something like a concept …
Mind’s Eye,Visualization and Memory = void (?)
VVIQ Test = No image at all, I only “know” I am thinking of the object. I “know” the characteristics (color, shape) of the object.
Your choice of words interesting “picture” instead of “see”. I’m 65 and only recently became aware of that I have full aphantasia. I’ve been trying to choose words that fit better than “see.” Most often I’ve been replacing “see” with “remember.” I “know” what things look like, and I don’t need to “see” them to describe something.