you’re supposed to be able to make an image of an apple appear in your brain by thinking about it? Sounds nice.
Well that was a fun side quest for the evening. One thing I read is aphantasia is common among siblings also.
Well that was a fun side quest for the evening. One thing I read is aphantasia is common among siblings also.
This is very similar to how I reacted when I started reading “When the Mind’s Eye is Blind” [0] one day.
Up to that point (I think I was 31 at the time) I had always believed that when people talked about “visualizing” something, it was just a figure of speech. I didn’t realize people meant it literally.
30+ years of situations suddenly clicked and it was like a bomb of realization went off in my brain.
- [0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-the-minds-ey...
I have read that eskimos lost in the snow and ice have been able to have day hallucinations visually as well auditory. They see and hear birds which do not exist.
A YouTuber simulated it with thick white paper taped to his head with white noise playing head phones after 15-30min, iirc.
Another avenue to look into aside from hallucinogens as referenced in the link could be deep meditation.
I've gone deep down a meditation rabbit hole since learning about all of this. No visual imagery yet, but I do see what I would have to describe as a non-specific shimmering/morphing "wave" that comes and goes. Nothing that I could describe as an image of something, but visual phenomena nonetheless.