The Aphantasia & Mental Imagery Adventure
This is a record and repository for all of my learnings surrounding aphantasia, and gaining mental imagery after roughly forty years of not having it and not being aware of it as a phenomenon.
To start with, here are some videos about Aphantasia, including several I’ve made talking about the topic and my own progress: Aphantasia Playlist (YouTube)
Mental Imagery Log
Short posts regarding my progress and ideas as I go from aphant to hypophantasia and beyond.
Aphantasia Resources
Image Streaming
Image streaming is really about developing an awareness of subconscious thought and the regular practice of observing it, and amplifying it’s “voice”. It’s inventor, Win Wenger, teaches and explains it thoroughly in his book, The Einstein Factor. In using Image Streaming, you learn to strengthen your mental imagery, even if it’s currently very weak or undetectable (i.e. you have aphantasia).
Adam Zeman & Patient MX (Jim Campbell)
Various Related Articles
- Memory linked to creating mental images
- Long-term memory and lack of mental images
- Article on Aphantasia by QuantaMagazine
- Life Without a Mind’s Eye
- Aphantasia: The rare brain condition that darkens the mind’s eye
- Discover Magazine Aphantasia Article
- Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Psychedelics
- The emergence of mental imagery after self-reported psilocybin mushrooms
- Ayahuasca helps man gain ability
Related Topics (to develop/discuss in the future)
- Pareidolia
- Autogogia
- Prophantasia
- Synesthesia
- SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory)
- HSAM (Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory)