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When the mind’s eye is blind - Austin Kleon

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On aphantasia, or when people can’t form images in their minds.

I first discovered aphantasia when I wrote a post about having an imagination (“ images in the head ”) and a few people wrote to me and told me they literally can’t form pictures in their heads. This information blew my mind, and I’ve been fascinated ever since. In The New York Times this week, Carl Zimmer follows up his original article with a report on the ways scientists are studying aphantasia , along with its opposite, hyperphantasia , or a mind’s eye that’s so vivid it’s sometimes hard to distinguish between what’s real and what’s not. Ed Catmull, who co-founded Pixar and helped make hug

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