Aphantasia - Do you see images in your minds eye?

[JuanHamm]

Aphantasia is a term that describes a single symptom: the inability to draw up visual images from memory or imagination. This may affect some people with aphantasia in certain ways but not in all people. For example, some people are more likely to have difficulty remembering personal events and recognizing faces

Well? Do you?

[tree_]

I don't have aphantasia, but I sometimes struggle to remember peoples' faces. But that's probably only because I don't care about them.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Yes all day everyday.

[dad]

[Jorge]

Yes, very visual.

[tree_]

Brad Pitt has Prosopagnosia, but not Aphantasia

[knee tunes]

I play out "movies" with my eyes closed all the time. I'm directing none of it, I just catch a glimpse and off it goes by itself. No audio and it's not a story, just random scenes, it used to be just flashes of pictures but lately it's full on animation. Some is cartoon like and some is life like, especially when eyes are involved.

I used to be scared to let this go too far but so far nothing is very frightening.
Lately it's been paintings with brilliant colors .

Today I noticed between scenes small white LR arrows , lol. They're not always there, but I thought that was funny

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

So do you have to watch something to jerk your wiener successfully?

[96583UP]

all asians look the same to me

[96583UP]

ok fine that's not true but sometimes

[96583UP]

ok fine not even sometimes but you pick up what i am laying down

[96583UP]

ok maybe you don't but you kind of get where i am going

[96583UP]

ok maybe not but maybe one day maybe

[96583UP]

but probably not

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I don’t know what Kuwaitans look like.

[96583UP]

i stopped remembering names of people i meet because i don't care to know them

they all come and go

[96583UP]

I don’t know what Kuwaitans look like.

rich af

[96583UP]

every day

shake ten hands

they're all shaking me my friends

every day i walk the street

i see people i never

want to meet

[96583UP]

NO