An interesting AMA the Aphantasia Network with a neuropsychologist about SDAM and aphantasia

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvam_uoBSLc

#aphantasia #sdam

Folks with visual imaginations: "Close your eyes & imagine..."

Me: *cries in aphantasia* 😭

#aphantasia

This brilliant video by Mica, @PonderfulYT, is as clear an explanation as you’ll find of the neurodiversity movement, neurodivergence and neurotypicality, and their relation to disability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iicSLx19pc

And it’s not just good because Boba tries to steal the show! 😻

#NeurodiversityMovement #neurodiversity #neurodiverse
#neurodivergence #neurodivergent
#neurotypicality #neurotypical
#disability #disabled

#ADHD #anxiety #aphantasia #autism #bipolar #BPD #BrainDisease #BrainInjury #cPTSD #depression #dyscalculia #dyslexia #dyspraxia #hyperphantasia #LearningDisability #OCD #PTSD #SDAM #Tourettes

A woman who had no mind’s eye, a condition known as aphantasia, developed one after taking magic mushrooms, a psychedelic drug. The woman reported that she could see vivid images in her mind for the first time in her life, and that the effect lasted for months after the drug wore off. Psychedelics could have therapeutic potential for people with aphantasia, who may struggle with creativity, memory, and emotions.

#Aphantasia #MagicMushrooms #PsychedelicTherapy

https://www.iflscience.com/woman-with-no-minds-eye-develops-one-after-taking-magic-mushrooms-70294?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter

Have there been any studies on parallels between #blindsight (no conscious eyesight) and #aphantasia (no conscious mental imagery)?

fellow folks with #aphantasia how old were y'all when you realized that being able to picture things in your mind wasn't just a metaphor and people actually can visualize things in their mind?

i was in like my early 20s when i learned this tbh.

Working memory signals in early visual cortex do not depend on visual imagery https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.13.528298v2 #aphantasia, mental imagery

Welcome! Meeting is a great thing. I love to meet others autists outside!

@dan
#introduction #actuallyautistic #PDA #aphantasia #anauralia #adhd

The Stages of Grief Over a Lifetime: Being a daughter without a father https://medium.com/human-parts/the-complexities-of-grief-being-a-daughter-without-a-father-23cd1fc9b12c

#aphantasia #life #grief #bereavement #racism #writing #personal #human #humanparts #mentalhealth #humanity #daughter #father

Fellow people with #aphantasia, do you find yourself often disagreeing with the general consensus on whether video games look good or not? Feel free to boost for reach.

@Gigawatt121
I have a couple of other - differences, I don't call them problems. I have #Prosopagnosia and #Aphantasia.
Yes, I can hear myself speak as I'm deciding what to type next.
If The Beloved™ asks me how to spell a word, I can hear the letters spelled out as I tell her.
I only recently discovered that there are people who can close their eyes and "see" an object.
There isn't a fine line between "normal" and "neurodivergent" - it's a big, fat, drawn in crayon, blurry line.

‘To help make connections: name 5–7 things that interest you but aren’t in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.’

OK, I’ll try to choose things that aren’t in *any* of my fediverse profiles! Hmm 🤔

How about #biology, #HumanComputerInteraction, #learning, #mindfulness, #philosophy, #psychology and #UrbanDesign for starters?

Relatedly:
#accessibility #ActiveTravel #aphantasia #AutobiographicalMemory #biochemistry #BodyDoubling #CellBiology #ColourPerception #consciousness #genetics #GreenSpace #HCI #hearing #hyperphantasia #mind #neuroscience #perception #SDAM #SoftwareDesign #TransitSystems #UrbanTransit #UserExperience #vision

"Diversity makes the richness of humanity": the emergence of mental imagery after self-reported #psilocybin mushrooms intake in an autistic woman with “blind imagination” (#aphantasia): a 1-year retrospective case report https://psyarxiv.com/c9fpj/

It just dawned on me that radio broadcasts of sports events might be more enjoyable for those without #aphantasia

Feedback signals in visual cortex during episodic and schematic memory retrieval and their potential implications for #aphantasia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763423003044 #neuroscience

As someone with #aphantasia I find coverage of it very strange "Imagine the inability to visualise a sandy beach, a stunning sunset or even the person that you love." I don't have to imagine! I just thought that was normal for most of my life https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-64548744

As a DM, I find dungeons tedious and boring to run. As a player, I feel the same - with the additional frustration of not bring in control.

This aversion to dungeons may be due to my aphantasia.

#dungeons #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #Aphantasia

(YouTube) Why don't we hallucinate our mental images? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxY3RSexbzg Alexander Sulfaro on #aphantasia and #hyperphantasia, #MentalImagery. Have you ever wondered why mental images aren't as vivid as real images? And what's the difference between imagining something and hallucinating it?

Question for those of you who have #aphantasia: Does it bother you to sleep in a bright room? Or do you need darkness to fall asleep?

Theory: Visual input is not as important to us, and we can ignore it easily. This may be a flawed question, but hey it’s Saturday morning.

@dbat

Alogia is worse. Consider that all non-human animals have alogia (lack of words). Visual imagery is all they have. Want to remember something? They have to picture it, or recall the scent. The evolution of a complex internal verbal monologue may have taken up some extra brain capacity that used to be used for visual imagery, but the advantages outweigh not having words.

And we're changing. Einstein's brain had an extra fold in a part of the parietal lobe used for imagery and mathematical thinking. Feynman reported that he could see equations floating around when he was working. Visual imagery is good too, and we're gaining it back. But we need bigger brains.

(When I close my eyes all I see is darkness. I have a friend who sees monsters, so ... tradeoff.)

#aphantasia is one of those things that's so misunderstood because everybody assumes that everybody else is just like them in this regard. It wasn't until adulthood that I said, "Wait, you can do what?"