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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (71 children)

Aphantasia is a condition that prevents people from creating mental imagery . It is rare, affecting only about 4% of the global population..... My visual memory is like looking through a frosted window. I see some colors and blobby shape and that's about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

4% is a pretty big chunk of the population. That's 1 in every 25 people. Which makes it all the more insane that nobody realised it existed as a condition until just a few years ago.

[โ€“] nik9000 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It just doesn't come up all that much. Folks live without knowing they are different.

And it is on a spectrum. Some folks is nothing others are can force a few pictures if they have to but aren't clear. I dunno.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It just doesnโ€™t come up all that much. Folks live without knowing they are different.

Case in point: The much easier to explain condition of colorblindness, which takes some people many years to find out they have!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It really depends on how you define aphantasia. Often the VVIQ score is used, a vividness score ranging from 16 to 80.

About 0,8 % of people have a score of 16, and 3,9 % have a score <= 32. The figures are from one of the more recent studies. Other studies report similar figures, for example one study by Zeman found 0,7 % with a score of 16.

About ยผ of all people with visual aphantasia also have multisensory aphantasia (all classical senses and emotions).

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I don't see things in my head, it's still blank but i can imagine the concepts. Do i have aphantasia? My dreams are vivid tho

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Any mental imagery in general? Like through mind's eye? Dreaming? I had a mind palace (like no joke) it took me years to build into something I could use, and I had a few seizures in relatively quick succession and I cannot imagine images with nearly the same clarity. My dreams are like trying to swim in molasses while wearing scuffed scratched glasses, and I haven't been able to access my mind palace in years. Any time I close my eyes I just see vague blurry shapes and colors, there's an environment there but I can't see it. Now, I can still see faces and remember them, but imagining in my head kissing my girlfriend is impossible. Her face warps and melts and my mental vision goes fuzzy.

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