Was curious if anyone's found functional treatment regiments for aphantasia. Surprised to find very little. There is some evidence that it may be psychogenic in some patients, which is promising. Quite a few reports of acquired aphantasia (after eg head injury, stroke, surgery)
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I used to not be able to imagine much at all, but more recently I've just tried to imagine more quite a lot and I think it's getting better. But maybe I'm imagining it :P
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I don’t really see it as something to be treated. But since I learned about it and self-identified, I’ve idly been taking note of conditions under which I can visualize more. Relaxation by whatever means seems to do something. One time I got abstract color fields on edibles.
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Interesting. I wonder to what extent there isn't much written about treatments because that's not very salient to aphantasics!
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I've read about image streaming -- closing your eyes and describing out loud the light/shade patterns you see -- working for some
I tried this for a couple of weeks a few years ago with no effect. Wasn't too diligent though
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I think the creator of drawabox.com has aphantasia (or seemed to intimate that at the beginning of the course). Not sure if the artistic training helped, but it seems plausible. Regardless, pretty surprising.
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I really like the way my brain works and I don't see it as something that needs to be changed! I know not everyone feels the same way, but "treatment" seems unnecessarily pathologizing to me. I'm sure it's different if you grew up with imagery and lost it later though.
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I used to think I basically couldn’t visualize, but eventually concluded I had been confused. So I’ll put myself down as cured psychogenic case.
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👀 are you willing and able to elaborate about the nature of your confusion please?
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