Aphantasia and Mental Visualization

Fun fact: not all humans can visualize things in their heads.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

Not if you have aphantasia.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29365277

Bring a picture of an apple up on your computer screen and look at it for 30 seconds. There is a fidelity to that image that includes the color, texture, stem, shape, reflection, etc.Now close your eyes and try to picture an apple for 30 seconds. Is the same experience as if having that picture in front of you? As in, can you picture, in your minds eye, an image of an apple as if you were looking at on your computer screen? On a scale from 1 to 5, where 5 is complete parity as if you w

I'm like you. It's called aphantasia. But to this day, I still wonder if we are really different from most people or it's just that most people are more lenient in using words like "seeing", "mind's eye", etc. in a highly metaphorical sense.There seems to be no external measurable manifestation or consequence (contrary to what some people might think, I can answer questions about hypothetical spatial rotations, etc. just fine. I don't visualize and

I'm not saying that at all. I think I have aphantasia. For me the score is 1 or 2 to picture that apple.I was shocked to realize that when people said "imagine in your minds eye", they meant it literally. This seems to be a common experience for people with aphantasia [0].Note that when I'm close to sleep or dreaming, then yes, my minds eye visualization is close to photographic parity. While awake, its almost completely non-existent.[0] "I can’t picture things

I can. Perhaps you have Aphantasia[1][1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

Ok, here's the 'related' list that I could come up with. Anything I missed?(Note: lists of previous threads aren't meant as criticism for a topic being repetitive! On the contrary, the classic topics always reappear and that's fine when the new article is interesting. Lists like this are just for curious readers who might want more.)Aphantasia and Psychedelics - https://news.yco

I am exactly how he describes. I cannot visualise anything and I don't have an internal voiceover. I do however recall abstracts and concepts. So if I saw an elephant before I'd be able to bring up the concept of the elephant. Nothing visual, but conceptual. I've discovered this is a thing (that people actually visualise) past my 40s. For a while I thought I missed out on some special fx, but it had no detrimental effect on my life. Maybe even it does help me see complex software

It's not aphantasia, I can imagine in visual form perfectly fine. It's just that it's not a particularly strong image or easy to focus on. :(

I'm confused, I can "visualize" images in my head, memories or new things both. I know how everything fits together, I can have this "image" even with my eyes open. I can draw them, recall details and context. However, when I close my eyes I see dark perlin noise and nothing else. So maybe it is figure of speech?Here's a visual test, but before clicking just imagine a red five-pointed star:<a href="https://curingaphantasia.com/free-aphantasia-te