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

Everything you said, yes. Although I want to make the movie of the “Man Game” before someone else ruins it for me.

I think I range across the spectrum, generally from medium to the vivid end. It degrades if I am tired, or I am reviewing a report that needs a heavy edit and I can’t form the appropriate images for what is intended to be said.

Also, no mention yet of orientation of a scene from any angle or elevation/depth. Ie casting one’s mind’s eye above or below the imagined scene.

I am also thinking being phantastic is a liability in settings where image forming is not necessary. I’ve blurted out things I regret when the reality is not the reality I constructed for myself. Or I fail to form an image and therefore don’t grok the message.

This is interesting; Yes, me too. I don’t sew but I deconstruct / reconstruct things in my mind and learned to appreciate this art. But the last bit - what is it then? A feeling in your hands?

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