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Discovering aphantasia - Austin Kleon

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When you discover you don’t see pictures in your head.

It appears that the writer John Green has recently discovered that he has aphantasia — “when your brain doesn’t form or use mental images as part of your thinking or imagination.” (The opposite of aphantasia is “ hyperphantasia, ” or having extremely vivid mental imagery. Most of us exist on a spectrum somewhere in the middle.) People usually don’t discover they have aphantasia until they realize people aren’t speaking in metaphor when they say, “Picture this” or “picture an apple.” (A common example: someone will be in a meditation class and realize they can’t visualize a quiet stream or what

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