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I'm starting to feel everyone's aphantasic. (Or aphantastic, as it should be.) I first talked about it in 2016 on a call with with ~6 or 7 people, mostly artists. "1% of the population are aphantastic". Turned out ~half of 'em were both aphantastic & synaesthetic.
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Wait. Serious question: so if I say “a stop sign” …you absolutely cannot sense even a red octagon in your mind? If you have a bowl, then look away to fill a cup with water, you can’t even “feel” whether that will be too little/much water for the bowl without direct eyesight?
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You can’t even see a stop sign!? That’s nuts. Like I get it, but I’d give up my eyesight before my visual-spatial sense. My cognition is way over-indexed on it to a fault, like I see my words when I speak slowly. You see dreams though, right? *star wars meme* …right?
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Okay, I’ll resign but I just need a confirmation that one of you is dead serious: you don’t have visible dreams when you sleep? Like ~95% of mine are wiped from memory if I don’t recall them within minutes of waking, but not even forgettable visible dreams even ~10% of nights?
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