What it's like to have aphantasia, the inability to create mental pictures

The best way I can describe my experience is that I have two sets of eyes. I have my actual eyes which are feeding info in that I can see, and then there’s another source of imagery that doesn’t manifest in my actual vision but I can still see what is going on with that sight. I can see it but not see it.

So, I can be watching a TV show but also be walking through an old house I lived in back in the early 90s, both at the same time without one interfering with the other.

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