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Chris ABRAHAM<a href="https://annihilation.social/users/Twig" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Twig@annihilation.social</a> <a href="https://ak.parcero.casa/users/dj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dj</a> <a href="https://annihilation.social/users/Dicey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Dicey</a> <a href="https://baj.ax/users/bajax" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bajax</a> <a href="https://clew.lol/users/Twig" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Twig@clew.lol</a> <a href="https://detroitriotcity.com/users/lonelyowl13" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lonelyowl13</a> <a href="https://detroitriotcity.com/users/Soy_Magnus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Soy_Magnus</a> <a href="https://lab.nyanide.com/users/ceo_of_monoeye_dating" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ceo_of_monoeye_dating</a> <a href="https://lab.nyanide.com/users/sysrq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sysrq</a> Listen to "Low-Res Messiah" by The Chris Abraham Show. <a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/chrisabraham/episodes/Low-Res-Messiah-e31f1si" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/chrisabraham/episodes/Low-Res-Messiah-e31f1si</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/LowResMessiah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LowResMessiah</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/ChrisAbrahamShow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChrisAbrahamShow</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/Aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aphantasia</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/SDAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SDAM</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/WilliamGibson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WilliamGibson</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/Based" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Based</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/MindPalace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MindPalace</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/AIethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIethics</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/Foucault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Foucault</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/IdentityPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IdentityPolitics</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/VirtueSignaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VirtueSignaling</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/Panopticon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Panopticon</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/DeleteYourContent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeleteYourContent</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/DigitalDetox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalDetox</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/AutismSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AutismSpectrum</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orwellian</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/AnchoriteVibes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnchoriteVibes</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/DrillRap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DrillRap</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/CancelCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CancelCulture</a> <a href="https://abraham.su/tags/CognitiveDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CognitiveDiversity</a>

Preston von GabbleduckGreat article on Nautilus about <a href="https://aus.social/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a>. Really covers the lived experiences and "your brain just tackles tasks differently" aspect quite well.<a href="https://nautil.us/my-brain-doesnt-picture-things-407444" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nautil.us/my-brain-doesnt-picture-things-407444</a>

Adrianna TanOne of the things about <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a> (not able to form images in my brain) is fantasy and sci-fi have been very hard for me to read. I have to look up fan art to help anchor me in what things that don’t exist look like. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a>

Adrianna TanI’ve been thinking about how having <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a> (inability to form images in my mind) has a relationship with how I process grief. For example, my beloved dog Cookie passed away in June last year. I grieved her of course, but I legitimately don’t think about her actively unless I look at a photo of her. She’s just not in my brain. Nothing really is. It’s an interesting way to perceive the world, differently from most of you. What is in my brain: ideas, words, concepts. I describe the way I think as ‘a wall of text that is floating by, I have to grasp at it to translate some chunk to the world’.

Radio_Jem<a href="https://io.waxandleather.com/@alisynthesis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alisynthesis</a> You too. I hope freedom and democraxy can one day be restored to the Disintegrating States of America.Tis interesting your name and profession One of my favourite musicians is Keyboardist Alan Wilder - ex of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DepecheMode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DepecheMode</a> OH and I too am neurodivergent, and have aphantasia. I actually popped a few toots about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aphantasia</a> over the weekend.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a>!

Kee HinckleyA while back someone shared an article about using <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ML</a> to recognize the object a person was visualizing by training the system on their brain patterns while seeing the object.I wondered at the time if that would work with people with <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a>, and suspected it would not.Well, the verdict is in, and it's even weirder than that.<ol><li>The near visual cortex does activate with patterns when people with aphantasia try to recall an image.</li><li>But the activation bears no apparent resemblance to what happens when they actually see the object. ML can't decode it.</li><li>It's on the wrong side of the brain.</li></ol>The first ones don't surprise me, but the last one is particularly curious. It's one of those things you probably learned in high school. "The left visual cortex receives information from the right eye and visual field. The right visual cortex receives information from the left eye and visual field." Nope. Not for people with aphantasia. For them the processing is on the same side as the eye.At this point nobody knows what this means. The researcher in the video suggests that maybe the activity in the near visual cortex isn't strong enough to trigger vision. But they also say it's warped in some way that isn't understood.For me at least, it feels like I'm simply picking out what appear to be salient attributes from the image, rather than an image.* Which makes me wonder whether there's anyone with aphantasia who also doesn't have an internal speaking voice, because I have no idea how I would recall an image if I couldn't talk out a description.* The other month I was was introduced to and invited to a meetup by a man I talked to. And a month later I was at the meetup and ran into the party organizer and the person who invited me, and thought the first was the second. The person I mistook for who invited me was a tall thin grey haired white man with a beard. The person who did invite me was a middle-aged heavy set black man. Looking back, I realized I'd only registered his outgoing boisterous personality, and that's the thing they both had in common. I'm not face blind, but it takes multiple exposures to someone before I can come up with a reliable recognition algorithm.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b38qWjlMAvs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b38qWjlMAvs</a>

Radio_Jem<a href="https://mas.to/@Jyoti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Jyoti</a> Some cant? I can hear every detail of music I know well. Every guitar/key note, every drum beat - I dont need to play it I can lie back and rehear it note for noteWhat I CANNOT do in my head is SEE things. When I close my eyes its black (and noisy) All that psycho-talk "imagine you are on a beach/forest - see the water, notice the sun" Nup. Im in dark void thinking about a beachEven "your loved ones face, an apple" I could describe them but I cant "see" them in my head.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aphantasia</a>

Mx. Alba :tranarchy_punk_transgender:<a href="https://mstdn.games/@britt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@britt@mstdn.games</a> I have complete <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/aphantasia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a> so no visualization, no internal dialog, no internal DJ, no vivid reliving of memories... For the longest time I thought people were speaking metaphorically when they spoke about things like that. My mind was blown when I realised that most people live with some form of permanent hallucinations, like how does one even cope with that???

Chuck DarwinMarco Giancotti’s brain can’t imagine a sunset, the sound of a bell, the smell of bread baking, or little else. In this fascinating piece for Nautilus, Giancotti introduces us to <a href="https://c.im/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a>, a condition that prevents him from picturing any “kind of sensory stimulation” in his mind. …as soon as I close my eyes, what I see are not everyday objects, animals, and vehicles, but the dark underside of my eyelids. I can’t willingly form the faintest of images in my mind. And, although it isn’t the subject of the current experiment, I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. I have what is called “aphantasia,” the absence of voluntary imagination of the senses. My whole life, I’ve been aware —sometimes painfully so —of my own peculiarities, strengths, and weaknesses: A terrible memory, a good sense of direction, and what I felt was a lack of “visual creativity,” among others. I always thought these were just random, disconnected traits, and didn’t think much about them. Who doesn’t have their quirks? <a href="https://longreads.com/2023/10/10/my-brain-doesnt-picture-things/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://longreads.com/2023/10/10/my-brain-doesnt-picture-things/</a>

Fragarach<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@skinnylatte</a> I have this as well, but I can recall seeing images in dreams. For me, seeing images with my eyes closed means I'm almost but not quite asleep. Weird. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a>

Adrianna TanI have <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a> and I can’t make visual images in my head. ‘Picture an apple’.. I can’t picture anything. People have asked me how I dream. I don’t have visual dreams. I just had a dream in which I.. smelled a variety of things. Interesting!

James Smith 💾Fascinating research results on <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aphantasia</a>; definitely lines up with my own personal experience! <a href="https://youtu.be/m9kLc_-iqIE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/m9kLc_-iqIE</a>

Mx. Alba :tranarchy_punk_transgender:<a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Introduction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Introduction</a> with a billion <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/hashtags" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hashtags</a>... I'm Alba, a <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/trans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/nonbinay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonbinay</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/bisexual" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bisexual</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/autistic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autistic</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/vegan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vegan</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/antifascist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antifascist</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/activist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activist</a> from <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Nijmegen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nijmegen</a>, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/NL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NL</a>. In addition to my <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/autism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a>, I've also got <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/ADHD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ADHD</a>, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/hyperlexia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hyperlexia</a>, related auditory processing and executive function issues, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/aphantasia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a> and <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/SDAM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SDAM</a> (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory). I'm an IT <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/tech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> at a large <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/international" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#international</a> company, a volunteer for the <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/radical" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radical</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/intersectional" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intersectional</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/anticapitalist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anticapitalist</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/political" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#political</a> party <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/BIJ1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BIJ1</a> and a freelance <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/translator" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#translator</a>. I speak <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Nederlands" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nederlands</a>, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/français" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#français</a>, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/English" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a>, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Deutsch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deutsch</a> and <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Esperanto" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Esperanto</a>. I play <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/saxophone" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#saxophone</a> - I have a bari sax, a tenor sax and a soprano sax. I also have a <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/flute" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flute</a> and a <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/ukelele" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukelele</a> but I don't play those nearly as well as the saxes. I love playing <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/TTRPG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTRPG</a> like <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/DnD5e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DnD5e</a> and <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/PF2e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PF2e</a>, and I have two <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/cats" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cats</a>, an orange slonk called Hobbes and a void chonk called Nita. I used to hang out on mastodon.lol until early 2023 when that instance shut down. I then moved to todon.nl and recently decided to hop on to blahaj.zone :Blobhaj_Love:

kamikatOh, <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a> is why I love our <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/jellyfin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jellyfin</a> project so much. And the <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/insomnia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insomnia</a>. It's basically my digital insomnia nest.

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺How interoception and the insula shape mental imagery and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a> <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10548-025-01101-6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10548-025-01101-6</a>

Chrissie CaulfieldI had a weird thought about my <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a>. I repeat-buy products based on the packaging appearace, I rarely remember brand names (which makes it annoying when companies change packaging!).But I can never bring these pictures to mind, I just 'know it when I see it' this seems to imply that my brain is storing images and comparing them, but not displaying them, like a 'headless' server computer :)

ts 🚉A fascinating video on aphantasia here. While we’ve been thinking and saying that there are people who lack mental imagery, it appears that they may in fact *have* mental imagery, but lack the conscious experience of what is happening:<a href="https://youtu.be/avI0KtmNpo8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/avI0KtmNpo8</a>Props to Hakwan Lau for their neuroscience work.<a href="https://thepit.social/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a> <a href="https://thepit.social/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brain</a> <a href="https://thepit.social/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#consciousness</a> <a href="https://thepit.social/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://thepit.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a>

Ari ¡No pasarán! JacksonOoooh, interesting little study about <a href="https://beige.party/tags/aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aphantasia</a> here:<a href="https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/people-who-cant-see-with-their-minds-eye-have-different-wiring-in-the-brain" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/people-who-cant-see-with-their-minds-eye-have-different-wiring-in-the-brain</a>

Matt"People who can't 'see with their mind's eye' have different wiring in the brain"<a href="https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/people-who-cant-see-with-their-minds-eye-have-different-wiring-in-the-brain" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/people-who-cant-see-with-their-minds-eye-have-different-wiring-in-the-brain</a><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Aphantasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aphantasia</a>

monkee :monkeedance:<a href="https://other.li/tags/Aphantasia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aphantasia</a> <a href="https://other.li/tags/Afantasie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Afantasie</a> Völlig uninformierter Laie (me): Das relativ un-studierte Phänomen, das gewisse Menschen nicht automatisch Bilder im Kopf visualisieren wenn sie an was denken. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia</a> <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afantasie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afantasie</a>

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