Can you imagine touch? For example, can you bring to mind what it feels like if a fly is walking down your arm, as though there actually is one?
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Can you imagine internal feelings? For example, can you bring to mind how it feels when your stomach is full, like it would be after a big meal?
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BONUS! Can you imagine pain? For example, can you bring to mind how it would feel if you burn your hand, like it would feel if you touched a very hot pan?
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EXTRA BONUS! Can you imagine an emotion? For example, can you bring to mind what it would feel like if you were very angry with a friend, as though you were actually angry with them right now? (Or anything else than anger!)
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OOPS I FORGOT ONE BONUS: Can you imagine taste? For example, can you bring to mind how a chocolate cookie would taste if you were actually eating it right now?
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Replying to @esdalmaijer
Please write up the hypothesis and results as a thread, I'm super curious about the distributions of these!
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Replying to @katestorrs
Pretty sure
@camillalnord and@TimDalgleish’s lab have actual science plans in that direction, but I’ll def put the unscientific poll results in a short blog post.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @esdalmaijer @katestorrs and
Every few years this pops up on social media where somebody discovers they have it, but I've never seen anything but aphantasia for visual stuff. I assume given the etymology though that it applies to more modalities not just visually imagining.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/24/experience-i-cant-picture-things-in-my-mind …
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Replying to @o_guest @esdalmaijer and
Skimming the above example article I wonder if the bit I'm highlighting is true: "It has been associated with similar conditions such as face blindness or tone deafness, though it ***does not*** affect cognitive or physical function."
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Replying to @o_guest @esdalmaijer and
In fact it's directly contradicted by the drawing task which the person with aphantasia seems to be impaired at compared to somebody without, especially since delayed drawing and copying, etc., is used to measure FTLD patients' semantic memory ability.
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Either way it's obviously not that serious, bit has to have cognitive repercussions of some kind, otherwise how can we even measure it. I wonder if having it affects aphantasics' ability to navigate. I certainly have highly detailed visual representations that I use to navigate.
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