I do not mean blind as in seeing with my eyes blind, but I'm blind seeing with my mind. I do not see images in my mind, I can't. Any images formed at all will look at most like a 2d distorted shadow, a transparent figure that you can barely distinguish, or something like a blank page out of a coloring book.
What is so weird is I just learned about this last night. I have went my entire life believing that everyone saw images in the mind like I see them. I never had a single clue that something was wrong. I always thought that someone telling me to picture something or another, it was all figuratively. I had no clue people could clearly see vivid images in their head.
What is so weird is I just learned about this last night after speaking with a friend of mine. He was describing something that happened to him, and he described it in good visual detail. At first I thought he just had a very vivid imagination, but then I thought twice about it and decided to ask him about these vivid images he was talking about. I was intrigued at his imagination, and I mentioned that his way of describing what he was talking about was nice. What made me see what actually was going on was when I said "wouldn't you really like it if we could take these thoughts and print them like actual pictures? That way, we can always have them in visual form to look at and remember." He looked at me really confused and asked me why he would need to print them if they were already in his head. I didn't understand. So I found out that this disorder exists, and it seems like there is a 99.9% chance that I have it plain and simple. This condition is real, newly recognized by science and is called Aphantasia.
The hardest part to grasp is that people can actually see vivid images in their mind, and the same the other way around. People that can see vivid images can't see how others can't see them. When I found out I had this, my friend was still here, and I was asking him about how clear he was able to see images for atleast 2 hours straight. I didn't believe him, I thought he was just fucking with me. It took a lot of convincing, because I can't see those images, plain and simple.
Also, since I am just now learning about most people having an ability that I don't have, I still have questions. I asked my friend last night if he was really able to see these images in his mind as clear as a picture on the internet. I asked him if he could picture his brother in his mind just as clear as he could if he was looking at his Facebook photo. He said yes to both. He said he can watch an entire movie just in his mind from visual memory. I was like oh noooo way, no way, are you serious, nooo, it isn't possible, is it??? He was serious, it is possible, and I just don't see how because that is not how I see things.
Does anyone else here have a similar issue as me? I hear it is kind of rare like 2% of people maybe have it. Also, do you see things clearly like my friend I described above?



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