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I only ask because I can't make mental images at all which is pretty rare (aphantasia) though it also is rare to have mental imagery as vivid as real life (hyperphantasia).
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But it wasn’t until 2003 that the University of Exeter’s Adam Zeman published the first case report on aphantasia, after meeting a 65-year-old who lost the ability to mentally visualize familiar people and places after a surgery.
I can’t picture things in my mind. I didn’t realize that was unusual Shayla Love 2024
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Lambert held a seminar on aphantasia—a term coined in 2015 by a British neurologist named Adam Zeman to describe an inability to call up visual images in the mind.
People Who Can’t Picture Sound in Their Minds Ajdina Halilovic 2024
alexz commented on the word aphantasia
The inability to visualise things in your mind.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160524-this-man-had-no-idea-his-mind-is-blind-until-last-week
June 2, 2016