Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Aphantasia
- Questions
- Is aphantasia real or is it just people describing mental images differently?
- Answer: Aphantasia is real.
- Evidence: Someone could picture images before a brain injury, then after, they couldn't. That's not two people describing it differently.
- Evidence: A test was done to see which parts of the brain were most active when trying to make mental images with non-aphantasiacs and people that thought they had aphantasia.
Different parts of the brain were more active for the people with aphantasia.
- Do people that don't have aphantasia accidentally think that they do?
- Answer: It's possible that someone has.
- What is it?
- Aphantasia is a condition where someone can't see mental images in their head and they just see all black. This is also known as being "blind in your mind's eye."
- Niel Kenmuir from Lancaster has had aphantasia all of his life. He considers it more of a different way of living than a disability
- How Common?
- About 1-3% of the population have it.
- Statements
- I believe that aphantasia
shouldn't be something that
hugely impacts your life.
- APHANTASIA