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When I was growing up, I thought the phrase "picture it in your mind's eye" was just a figure of speech, because I've never been able to picture anything in that way -- when I close my eyes and try to imagine something like an apple or a sunset, or even the face of a loved one, it's just black. If this sounds familiar, you might have #aphantasia mathewingram.com/work/index.ph

mathewingram.com/work · Aphantasia: When you try to picture something in your mind and nothing happensThis is a difficult topic to talk about, since it involves things that happen exclusively inside your (or my) mind, which by definition can’t be experienced by anyone else. So it’s hard…

@seanbolton I didn't even know it was a thing until I was in my 50s and a friend mentioned it, and it was like a lightbulb went on -- or didn't go on 😃

Sean Bolton

@mathewi and here I am in my fifties, just finding out 😃

It explains why I can draw a reasonable copy of something I can see, but not something from memory.

@seanbolton Yes, it's the same for me -- I have drawn and painted every since I was young, but I have to be looking at it or a photo of it. I can't draw anything from my imagination.