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

Red. I saw a red hard rubber racquetball.
The table was tan unstained oak with a matte polyurethane finish.

This kind of thing is my interior life most of the time.
I never had a name for it.

Tibetan Buddhist practices (Tantra famously and chiefly) harness the power of visualization often. I remember a pretty complicated Medicine Buddha empowerment and I realized just how far along one must be in one’s meditation practice to really keep up with what the lama teaching.

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