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by amenhotep 257 days ago
It leaves you with not having aphantasia! I rather suspect quite a lot of people who believe they have it simply differ on the level of literalism they're willing to use to describe their imagination than those who've led them to believe they have it.
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> It leaves you with not having aphantasia!

That's what I always assumed from reading about it in the past, where it was mostly "I can't imagine things in my mind". Well, I can certainly imagine things.

Now, the guide in the top comment talks about actually seeing things. I don't. As in, really not at all, for any interpretation of "seeing" I can think of.

I wouldn't even describe it as fuzzy - it's just not an image at all, it's more abstract thought and abstract perception.

Hence my confusion.