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Aphantasia
Aphantasia: Experiences, Perceptions, and Insights | Alan Kendle
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This title is a collection of insights from contributors across the world detailing their lives with Aphantasia. It offers rich, diverse, and often amusing insights and experiences into Aphantasia's effects. For anyone who wishes to understand this most intriguing condition better, the book provides a wonderful and succinct starting point.
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artkavanagh
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Mehso-so

A bit of a disappointment. That a majority of people can literally visualize things in their heads is still an exciting new discovery for me, but this book contains a lot of undigested raw data which probably won‘t appeal to someone who‘s not as fascinated as I am. I found answers to a couple of questions I had about the condition. A Pick for those with aphantasia, I‘m guessing a Pan for others, so I‘m averaging it out.

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artkavanagh
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“What do you mean ‘picture‘? I don‘t see anything.”

wanderinglynn Neuroscience is fascinating - there‘s always something new scientists are discovering. I was reading about aphantasia a few weeks ago & I can understand why reading fiction wouldn‘t be as pleasurable if one couldn‘t visualize the story in one‘s head. 6y
artkavanagh @wanderinglynn I love reading fiction, and writing it, but I do often find purely descriptive passages hard work, from both points of view. I don‘t imagine what characters or rooms or other places look like but I get a kind of abstract idea of them. It‘s very hard to describe. I‘m only just coming to terms with the fact that I‘ve got it, and trying to work out the implications for my memory, and its “opposite”: my idea of the future. 6y
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artkavanagh
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I must read this book. I discovered that I have aphantasia (which has huge implications for the way I read and write fiction) 2 years ago but didn‘t quite manage to believe that it‘s a real thing. I wrote about it here just yesterday: @artkavanagh/straight-a-s-a2b0b3bc8425" rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://medium.com/@artkavanagh/straight-a-s-a2b0b3bc8425