Living with Aphantasia
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James Ravenscroft
Aphantasia is what they call it when you can't see stuff in your "mind's eye", it's latin for "no imagination". It was a term originally coined by Dr Adam Zeman who did a study in 2015 that I responded to. I am an aphant and I spent most of my life believing that this is the normal state of affairs. When my secondary school art teacher got frustrated with me during still life drawing, they said "just visualise it in your mind's eye" which completely threw me - I assumed that this was a turn of phrase or a metaphor or something. I didn't realise that most people genuinely do have mental imagery.
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