I spent a day with APHANTASICS (People without a Mind’s Eye)

I spent a day with people w/ Aphantasia to learn the truth about living without a mind’s eye.

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🎥Crew
▸ Creator, Director, Writer, etc. - Anthony Padilla
▸ Executive Producer - Alessandra Catanese
▸ Production Coordinator, Co-writer & Research - Elise Felber
▸ Director of Photography/Gaffer - Zach Zeidman
▸ Editor - Mike Criscimagna AKA Mork Crispy
▸ Assistant Editor - Patrick Horba
▸ Post PA / Assistant Editor - Ash Duckworth
▸ Sound Editor - Gareth Hird

🎵Theme Music Composer - Matt Good AKA The King of Emo 

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[ele_abnormal]

My dad has aphantasia. He told me that one day right before falling asleep, he somehow managed to visualize a triangle. He was so surprised that he sat up, shook my mom awake, and said "OH MY GOD I JUST SAW A TRIANGLE"

[cplova]

I never knew "daydreaming" was literal, i thought it was just wandering thoughts that got you distracted not people visually imagining real scenarios

[JAMIEvstheVOID]

Thanks for inviting me on Anthony! It was an absolute pleasure! So cool to hear about other people's experiences too :D

[Goldberry]

The thing I hate the most about aphantasia is the fact that I can't see the faces of the people I love when I miss them. I'm so glad we live in a digital era where we can have access to pictures anywhere and anytime !

[apricotsoup]

When I found out people could LITERALLY SEE things in their brain I thought it was crazy. And then I realized I was the odd one out.

[cat-her-ine]

Once my science teacher said "we all see pictures in our head" and I was just sitting there, really confused. I never knew that people could actually see things in their head.

[TheTBoogie]

I daydream a lot and I can't imagine going through boring teachers, waiting outside the doctor's office or anything boring without being able to imagine fantasy/fictional scenes in my brain. I think I wouldn't be sane if that were the case.

[sokaluvs]

I almost like, , cried, , whenever they were explaining what they thought visualizing was. When they both said, , “Oh yeah, , I thought it was metaphorical” I was just sitting there like, , “Holy crap this is the way I describe it too” I just kinda realized that i’m not the only one

[spadessongs]

Wow I've never been happier to be able to picture a horse till now

[mooodlemip]

“I live my life more with a compass rather than with a map”
that’s such a great way of phrasing it

[Tvngsten]

"I live my life more with a compass than with a map"
I don't know why, but I love this sentence

[ShortlockHolmes]

Aphantasiac right here who only discovered it at 30. I was gutted when I found out people can literally see pictures in their mind. I'm an artist and I have to rely on spontaneity and seeing something already on the page before I decide whether it works or not. Art was so frustrating and time consuming for reasons I couldn't understand.

[ajlab]

it’s so weird that people can see colors. i’ve grown up thinking that visualizing in your mind is like a metaphor. but i asked some people i knew and they were shocked. all of them could see colors but i couldn’t. i can’t visualize, but i can hear, it’s wild.

[Onyx-fp]

Always when a teacher said, "close your eyes and visualize this scene, " I would always be very mad because I would sit there trying to think as hard as I can about it and nothing would ever pop up.

[hannabooklover]

Wow, as a writer I literally cannot imagine living in a world where I cannot manifest something with in my mind. This condition is just so different from my norm

[mssunnylunarain]

I cannot wrap my mind around this as a concept. I've always had such a vivid imagination where I created full stories and characters. I could see their mannerisms and hear what their voices would sound like. Even when drawing, I visually their clothing before I put it to paper. The thought of it simply not being there is insane.

[alliewestbeld]

i love how he’s bringing attention to less heard of things, rather than just the main illnesses (not that those aren’t also important)

[youtubeaccountcausewhynot]

it's so crazy to me that people can just like SEE stuff in their mind.

[eldasapon]

To me is a totally the opposite situation. My mind pictures everything around me. If someone is describing something gross or telling a disturbing story, my mind brings a very realistic and detailed image of it. When I read or hear stories, they automatically turn into a whole world in my head, is cool but a nightmare sometimes.