Have any aphantastics tried visual mnemonic techniques, like the method of loci, memory palaces, etc? Do they work at all for you?
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Correct, yes. Mainly that if I've physically walked through a place I can essentially "imagine" rewalking it and navigating my way around, but there's no associated imagery, I just have a sense of where I am and how to get places from there.
Really interesting! I'm a milder version of this: I'm not aphantastic, but I think my visual imagination is probably weak (compared to many of my friends, any way). I do have an extremely strong spatial sense, though. (And, oddly, possibly very mild visual synesthesia.)
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Yeah, I think ability to visualise is a pretty continuous spectrum. There's no real phantasia/aphantasia binary, just a wide degree of variation some of which results in functionally no ability to visualise.
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I'm mostly aphantastic, but I have a very strong spatial sense, which I use to remember structures like the Unix directory tree. I wrote about that here: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/mental_map_of_unix_tree.html …
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