Aphantasia · 12:20am Feb 1st, 2019
...is the suggested name for a condition where one does not possess a functioning mind's eye and cannot voluntarily visualize imagery.
In non-scientific terms, it means that when thinking or imagining, one cannot see any imagery. Up until today, I didn't know that when thinking people could visualize objects.
Like, when you close your eyes and imagine an apple, apparently most people can see the apple. All I can ever see is the inside of my eyelids.
It's not a bad thing, it's just really weird. It does explain why I don't have dreams and instead just have thoughts.
When I think of something, such as an apple, I don't see the apple. It's like a perfect description of an apple comes into my mind in a fraction of a second, but there are no words to go with it.
So I don't understand how it works for other people. But it just a funny thing in the end, huh?
I never knew there was such a thing.
I apparently have that too. I can’t picture stuff in my head, and I go for long periods of time between dreams. And when I do have dreams, they’re slice of life dreams.
How the crud do I dream about fluffy slice of life?!
I think I have it too.
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/901787/i-have-aphantasia