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guys, i think i have aphantasia
for reference, thats when you cant visualize stuff in your mind, no smells/sounds/images aside from just your regular voice
for another reference, i can think of stuff and i can picture stuff in my head
but it ends up resulting like an ai, a messy congloboration of stuff and its never a clear concise image
i dont see it infront of my eyes when i shut them or i cover my face with my hands to prevent light getting in
im able to use logic to guess what that would look like, like say a spinning cow but it never appears in my head or infront of my eyes
if i cover my face with a blanket to go into total darkness, i can move my hands and i can assume with logic what that looks like, but its based purely on the way my muscles feel when they move
if i try to imagine a song, i can only really imagine the lyrics and it ends up being in my voice
if i try to imagine my friends voice, it can sound vaguely like them, but it only ever ends up being kind of, my voice in their accent (southern, romanian, and british just to name a fwe of my friensd accents)
just wanted to tell my story about that and i also wanted to know
does anyone else here have aphantasia?



I don’t know what aphantasia is but I think everyone has that so I wouldn’t worry about it.
I used to worry about things like this a lot when I was younger and was tormented but different things to the point of depression but at a certain point, based on what you do have, if you even do still have it, you learn to live with it and work with it and around it.
In any case, going back to my first point, it’s natural enough so don’t worry.
contrary to popular belief, a lot of people CAN actually see things infront of their vision or at the very least in their mind
if they close their eyes and imagine a red apple, theyd see it in a black void (since, darkness from having your eyes closed)
i really only started thinking about it since, funnily enough, i cant really visualize stuff with my boyfriend
i can imagine like, what that would look like, based on logic and my knowledge of 3d graphics, but i cant really VISUALIZE IT like an image im looking at, just abstractish concepts that agian, dont even look like anything
not even like an outline
Girl I have the exact opposite problem I think of everything so vividly I wish I would stop thinking
not a girl!
but damn i wish i had that power dude 😭😭 i wanna imagine thingss
Whoops sry lol I say that like instinctually or something, it’s burned into my vocabulary, just know it wasn’t bc of anything like that lol I probably would’ve still said it like a dum dum.
Anyways ye, it’s kinda like a double edged sword situation,
I mean, at least ur not braindead lol.
true!!
Jet I relate
I always catch myself though
But about the mind thing
Not everyone can just pull up a new tab and look at memory’s and shit in there mind??
not everyone no 🙁
Dang, oh well