I have ~no inner imagery. I have no inner voice.
First hearing of aphantasia, I believed it was a miscommunication. Surely everyone has about the same experience but just describes it differently? Through focused thought over the past few years, I have some greater ability to visualize than I did before. With this evidence, I no longer believe it is a difference in communication, but truly a difference in experience.
With my current visualization/memory abilities I still can do many typical things you might imagine "require" visualization. I struggle with many other things too.
- I can close my eyes and walk (reasonably well) around my house.
- I can look at a photo of a 3d object and select a rotated variant from a list of options (common in internet iq tests)
- I can imagine a rubik's cube, but get confused if I try to do really anything past a single operation.
- When practiced, I can somewhat do the mental abacus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_abacus
- I can't mind palace really much at all.
- I am at the "dim and vague" step on the attached article.
Other than the strange hallucination here and there, I've never had any internal audio.
Interested in other people's experiences.
First hearing of aphantasia, I believed it was a miscommunication. Surely everyone has about the same experience but just describes it differently? Through focused thought over the past few years, I have some greater ability to visualize than I did before. With this evidence, I no longer believe it is a difference in communication, but truly a difference in experience.
With my current visualization/memory abilities I still can do many typical things you might imagine "require" visualization. I struggle with many other things too.
- I can close my eyes and walk (reasonably well) around my house.
- I can look at a photo of a 3d object and select a rotated variant from a list of options (common in internet iq tests)
- I can imagine a rubik's cube, but get confused if I try to do really anything past a single operation.
- When practiced, I can somewhat do the mental abacus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_abacus
- I can't mind palace really much at all.
- I am at the "dim and vague" step on the attached article.
Other than the strange hallucination here and there, I've never had any internal audio.
Interested in other people's experiences.