/ aphantasia/

>what is it?
To simply define aphantasia, Aphantasia is where a person is unable to create imagery in their mind's eye. People with Aphantasia are unable to synthesise senses in their mind.
Certain people are unable to create any images, sounds, tastes, smells or touch within their mind. This is known as Total Aphantasia.

I have no imagination at all, I am not an NPC my thinking process when I "imagine" is purely conceptual.
I write poetry and I am very good at working with words to even create imagery but I have no imagination that is visual.
I like many who have the condition never knew they had it.
>people who have the condition come and chat
>people who do not, feel free to ask us questions
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I never realized how much I take that shit for granted. I can't imagine not having it now. Being able to hear old music I've listened to or remember what it was like to cuddle with a girl.

>I never realized how much I take that shit for granted.
I dont even know what any of this imagination stuff is.

I can imagine stuff but it is all conceptual and based on words.
I aslo have mental illness that prohibits my ability to function at all.

Literally most of normies are like that.

>Literally most of normies are like that.
actually not true man.

What happens if you refuse to speak inside your mind? Does it just kind of stay blank until you talk?

get the fuck out here you weeaboo anime loving faggot. Your mother should have aborted you. Monkeys look down at you, I get you fell down the biggest tree and hit all branches on the way down but it's time for you to climb on the tree and finish your evolution. Disgusting subhuman nigger

>What happens if you refuse to speak inside your mind?
well I have OCD and intrusive thoughts.
it does stay blank until I talk.
but the weird thing is I do get delusional images that pop into my head like gore and stuff because mentally ill.

and it scares me so much as I dont see anything in my head when I shut my eyes and try to imagine but then BAM
I see monsters and shit.

why the hate?

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>Aphantasia is where a person is unable to create imagery in their mind's eye
>I do get delusional images that pop into my head
threads over folks, he's just an mentally ill

>threads over folks, he's just an mentally ill
1. I am mentally ill
2. I still have no imagination, I am able to dream, I still get trapped in weird delusions sometimes.

But I cannot imagine

can you imagine what its like to imagine?

did you choose to have free will?

>can you imagine what its like to imagine?
I guess it is like dreaming, I lucid dream before
>did you choose to have free will?
I can imagine, but not visually or in any way but with concepts and shit

yeah fren, i have this thing aswell, I thought I was normal for a super long time, and I don't even remember when I figured out it was weird that I couldn't make imagery in my mind, really I can only get imagery/sounds when I'm borderline sleep/dreaming. Like I do music right, so I can "know" what chords sound like and how they sound next to each other, but I cannot hear them so it feels weird when I talk with my music people and they can do that shit in their head absolutely scuffed. Honestly I never even though, that people could synthesize tastes/smells or touch with their head I was only ever focused on images and sound. damn it feels weird but rip fren, we're doomed to be this way

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Reporting in.
/noimagination/ here

That really sucks, being able to remember things using visualisation is very useful. What methodes do you use to remember things?

But you can remember stuff, right? Like what strawberries taste like, or what a dog barking sounds like?

>so I can "know"
we just think differently.
>we're doomed to be this way
actually I feel we think differently more based on concepts and such.
>What methodes do you use to remember things?
I remember them with words and such and related words.
>But you can remember stuff, right?
Yes indeed
> Like what strawberries taste like, or what a dog barking sounds like?

Yes but purely in descriptive ways.
I can write poetry with great imagery so I have nop issues with imagery and memory or conjouring up such things.

I may post something to show you guys

doomed was probably the wrong word, but yeah, it's just the cards we got dealt, I can't say it's bad I've never experienced anything else. ah man,have a good one fren

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Most of my time when I'm not playing games or something is just spent daydreaming about good future events. So you can't imagine future events in your head at all? Can you also not replay music in your head?

>it's just the cards we got dealt,
I think we may just be wired ti think differently
>spent daydreaming about good future events.
wtf even is this, I will never know

>wtf even is this, I will never know
I imagine future events happening in my head and it's basically happening my mind like real life but i know it's not real.

>I imagine future events happening in my head and it's basically happening my mind like real life but i know it's not real.

How vivid is this shit?
what the fuck man, this is why I was shitty at art but dope at rhyming.
I cant picture fuck all in my head

you are blowing my mind.
how viviid?

It's kind of hard to describe but it's basically happening in my head kind of like it would happen in real life except things that i don't focus on basically aren't there. But it's like I'm seeing it even though I'm physically not.

I guess I will never know, can you think conceptually like I do.
where you think of all the details using words instead of imagine it visually?

ill post a poem to show I can imagine stuff but with words, a rap

Do you draw? You should try drawing/sketching/painting something that's not from memory or from a reference material. Like a brand-new landscape that doesn't exist anywhere or a fantasy creature of your own design. Would you have no way of predicting what you're going to draw before you actually do it?

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>Stars obscured in the night,grey clouds,dim factory light
>rain filled with toxin,spitter spatter, melancoly sight
>grey paint, concrete boxes, only ever foggy, twilight
>rows of robots,titter tatter like wind up toys,
>lined up, endless cycle,typing machine noise
>infinetly same motion, an eternity, it never seems time destroys.
>replicate when break,new frame,same duplicated fate
>eternal,
>only again,no anticipated escape
>plastic brain dont sleep,always activated,awake
>silicone static, no name,main directive is create
>post apocalyptic landscape,
>no individual remain,a plain collective
>link in a chain,thread in a stitch,
>Rust in a ditch, became defective,
>busted bits switched,recycled parts,salvaged
>welded extra chips,fixed,smarts
>upgraded
>emotion dot exe file created
>candid new camera catch new colors
>computer crashed
>restart, trouble shoot,consciousness hatched
>single spark shimmers in the dark ocean of grim
>simple start, still stark,emotion and whim
>garbage can, limb,move
>destination,smoke on horizon
>seek information,like genesis
>lonely rattle,beeps and blips, wonder why anything exists
>drag past endless scrap yards metal body stacks high,
>journey persists
>reach a set of great gates,tall enough to greet space
>dusty sky, pierced by rusty towers,jagged shapes
>grey scale musky,acidic taste,
>no flowers just sludge and chemical waste
>caustic showers,over power life in this
>mechanical place.

see, I can use imagery but I think with words and stuff to imagine,
when I wrote that I sat there thinking about basically what wagecucking is like and how we are robots
and what the world would look like.
blank in the head but using words to imagine. so I have imagination I just think differently all with language

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>can you think conceptually like I do.
>where you think of all the details using words instead of imagine it visually?
Well if someone is describing what something looks like I'll usually automatically visualize it as it's being described and add more details or change things when people explain it more.

I do this but with words, we just operate differently.
I mean I can think im not retarded and I can use imagery.
but cant visualize it,

I quite like this poem,user :^)

Oregaga

>I quite like this poem,user :^)
thanks man ill post another
for a bump

i got feels in my guts,yuck,
like meals of cigarette butts,
they forget to heal like cuts on your heels and such,
im stuck like the rusty nuts on the wheels of a bus
kept in unkept fields filled with dust,
no fuel within touch or thrills I lust,
still hold onto the clutch until I feel i'll bust
"look how he plays with us
like the devil an almost respectable type of evil"
I dont wrestle or throw discus,
i revel in their distrust
people rebel,discuss and reveal their disgust