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 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 mean, till that Facebook post went viral, I didn’t realize I was atypical in any way.
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That’s the strangest part. I remember hearing all of these random idioms (“mind’s eye”, “visualize success”, etc) after reading ’s post and then thinking “oh shit, people mean this literally”
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I’m still not sure I believe them. Maybe it’s some sort of delusion of seeing and we’re the ones experiencing the real thing. It’s not like they all have eidetic memory of scenes they claim to visualize so richly.
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I believe them! Have clear imagery in my mind all day, and manipulating those visuals is (subjectively) an important part of my experience of solving problems!
& eg I can (and do) vividly place myself back on Wailea Beach for a quick shot of happy vibes—the sparkling waves, etc.
Feynman wrote of very interesting experiments in what people could and couldn't while keeping a steady count-he couldn't talk while counting, but could write, his friend was the opposite. His friend reported 'seeing' a tape with numbers pass by in his mind's eye.
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source: calteches.library.caltech.edu/607/2/Feynman.
This is, of course, trivial to replicate: the claims he made were:
- lots of people (maybe most) can count to themselves and hit 60 in a relatively consistent timeframe.
- some people can talk while doing this, some can read, but none can do both
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