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by lll-o-lll 984 days ago
> I always wondered how memories seemed (TFA touches on this but not in detail) to people who claimed to be minds-eye-blind. Can you not put yourself back on that beach when you were in your mid twenties? Can you not remember his/her eyes/hair/smile/etc at all? Isn't it kind of an image?

The short answer is no. No to all of that.

The longer answer is that the condition tends to be correlated with severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM). So, yeah, can’t remember things like I was there, or with any emotion attached. Which is sad I guess, but comes with the upside that I can’t remember bad things that happened in that way either.

Also can’t really imagine the future in a daydream kind of way, which I suspect is a downside for goal motivation.