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Aphantasia is the inability to visualize. Otherwise known as imagine-free imagination.
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An estimated ~3-5% of the population experience aphantasia, and another 10-15% are believed to experience the opposite, hyperphantasia.
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Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Craig Venter, biologist who first sequenced the Human Genome. Blake Ross, creator of Mozilla Firefox. Glen Keane, Disney Animator and Creator of The Little Mermaid. Penn Jillette of Pen...
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‘Imaginative’ means having or showing creativity or inventiveness. Creativity involves a whole network of brain activities from integrating past events and identities to thinking about the future and navigating different pathways toward desired goals to invent novel thin...
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Aphantasia and hyperphantasia are relatively new scientific discoveries [2015], and these invisible differences in how we imagine impact our life, work, and well-being in so many different ways.
Many we’re just beginning to uncover!
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Aphantasia is a variation in human experience. It is not a disability, disorder, or defect .
Nor is it a barrier to success.
Discovering you have aphantasia can lead to new insights into your unique way of thinking, insights that can greatly impact your life,...
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Can you hear the horse neigh? Imagine what it would feel like to travel on horseback?
Imagination is a spectrum – and not just for our visual imagery but across all our senses!
There exist remarkable, often unsuspected invisible differences
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Aphantasia can impact our ability to recollect events and facts from our past experiences (autobiographical memory ).
Evidence also points to a connection to other aspects of human experience, impacting everything from education and career choices to reduced PTSD sensitivity and ev...
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What do you “see ” in your mind?
People with aphantasia don’t create any image...
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Not being able to imagine people and places can be bothersome and upsetting for the people with Aphantasia. Many people from all walks of life experience this, and it does not seem to impact their success in life.
This is a normal variation of human experience and is not something that...
Strangely enough, people with aphantasia can dream normally, being able to see the visuals. It is the intentional ‘imagining’ that is affected and not the dream state.
Dreams are a subconscious mind event, controlled by the brainstem, while visualization requires...
Aphantasia was first described in the early 1800s by Francis Galton in a paper on mental imagery. It was not until 2015 that the phenomenon was further studied and the term was coined.
One of the major studies was with a patient who had undergone a minor surgery in 2005 and later ...
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