This is what aphantasia means 🖼️

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I know exactly what she means. Thinking is quite interesting to me. I can feel my brain working, but it's completely silent.

CottidaeSEA
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With aphantasia I've found breathing exercises to be far more effective when meditating, I can't imagine myself in a serene place but I can find comfort in connecting to my breath and the feeling of air entering and leaving my body connecting me to the rest of the world.

ronmon
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at least she never had to deal with elevator music playing in her head during an exam 💀

aleexii
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It’s so interesting getting to this point in history and people are just figuring out the different states of consciousness

definitelynotme
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Aphantasia plus ADHD has been a weird experience. It’s like you think everything you possibly can but nothing at the same time

carpet
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Ah Brodin's remembering when she mentioned while Scarra and Syd were assembling the tent for winter camping, suggesting Scarra had it too

AntiAnathema
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People with aphantasia probably use the same thought patterns for material things that other people normally use for abstract ideas, ie “the kid with the red hat sprinted away” is effectively the same as saying something abstract like “time got away from us” or “the math didn’t check out”. You can still build complex narratives using intuition in place of imagery or sound.

BillAlias
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I've never heard anyone else talk about this ever, but I still remember when I first realized I was different. I was going to my college freshmen orientation and the speaker told everyone in the auditorium to "close your eyes and imagine a banana." Then, after a pause, "okay, now imagine peeling back the skin of the banana." At first, I had closed my eyes, but after a few seconds, I opened them and looked around only to notice that everyone else was still doing it. I had never truly understood that this was a thing people could actually do... They didn't mean think about the concept of a banana. They meant to actually visualize it... It was kinda mind blowing to me at the time. I fully understand the concept of a banana, and I know what it means to peel a banana, but I most certainly cannot internally visualize the banana or the peeling. Glad to hear there are more of us out there.

DanielJParish
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the easiest way i can explain my aphantasia is that it's all vibes based. lots of general impressions.

contingency
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I have aphantasia too, but specifically for visual inagery. i can hear music and sounds in my head very clearly.

Tofumang
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Thank you for this and your other videos about aphantasia. I had no idea what it was but this resonated so much with me it got me looking into it. Pretty sure this is why I've spent my whole life thinking that my brain works differently to everyone else

JrGuatz
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when they said that she cant see imagine "like normal people" I figured that was just an exaggeration but when I googled it only like an estimated 3% of people have it. I thought like half the world shared my aphantasia but apparently most people dont

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_I feel that with music. It's like a ghost and then it gets drowned out by the AuDHD. I love music though- so it'll be interesting if I ever decide to start making some._

sisterfister
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Im glad aphantasia is slowly getting more attention. It's frustrating with how little resources are available on it when you find out this is how your life is gonna be forever

Garreeeee
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i have aphantasia and some of my friends know that. one day i told one of them that i had a pretty surreal dream/nightmare and he went "wait... how do you dream? isn't it just blank/empty?". that's when i realized how a lot of people think about aphantasia. there's this weird assumption that if you can't picture something, there's no way for you to imagine it in any other way. of course (like in everything) there's different degrees of aphantasia and different people imagine stuff in different ways but the way i always explain how i imagine stuff is this:
when its pitch black in your room/house you kind of know where everything is and what the shapes of everything are even when you can't see them. there's this kind of spatial awareness even if you can't actually see anything or can only see very faint outlines of everything. that's how i imagine stuff.
^ this is why i like descriptions of shapes and distances between different things and different people in books but hate when they go into too much detail about what everything and everyone look like. it just gets boring when i read a lot about something that doesn't add to my understanding of that universe

also to address one more thing sydney said if a song is "stuck in my head" i can't hear it either. i either click my tongue to the beat and then can kind of imagine (some of) the rest of the sounds on top of that or have to sing/hum the song. i can't just play the song in my head or anything like that. its just this weird feeling of having something in your head that you want to stop thinking about but can't

vixyn_
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Wowww representation!
I have aphantasia too - our heads aren't empty but it's like, you just have no visual imagery when you close your eyes, I just see black (the back of my eyelids?)
Also - I don't have a voice in my head too, which I've found out is a thing for other people??? (Never understood it)
Music can get stuck in my head, but I'm usually humming it haha, I don't really hear it in my head, but I'll keep thinking of it haha

violetnhz
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Its crazy how different aphantasia is for eveyone! I have it pretty severe, and I cant imagine anything, but I do hear sounds in my head, which I've heard is uncommon

AdvYap
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u got me thinking. I dont really see images. I just kibda have a feel as to what a description would be like but I have no visial to it like it's just an idea I somehow know of. I thought that's just how all brains brained lol.
I do have a voice in my head tho, but when I really wanna focus I repeat when I am trying to read to myself in my head and it feels like I double listen. sometimes my brain just works and sometimes I have to think. idk my brain just be freaky I guess lmao

galileodirectio
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I felt this way as a kid, it has changed and I don’t think it’s a medical condition. It feels odd even labeling it as one when no one can detect consciousness. 99% sure its a learned skill that typical is inherit, but sometimes you must learn it. Just like some people natural swim and some learn.

Chronoanime
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Every time I see other people talk about their aphantasia I feel so seen because I do NOT have the words to explain exactly how it effects me and I don't know anyone else with it IRL

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