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

This is weird. My brother and i were talking about this yesterday.
“Picture a ball on a table.”
“Ok”
“Now push if off”
“Ok”
“What color was the ball?”

He could not answer. He could conceive the item, but could not picture it. He actually attributes part of his success as a novelist to this. He never describes how things look in his books, just lets the characters discuss them as it comes up. Weird synchronicity, BB.

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