Aphantasia | Heba Azmy | TEDxSafirSchool 

Hearing your talk just taught me so much. I was run over by a car in 1985 and suffered a severe head trauma. The origin of that injury was at the point of the visual cortex and I haven't had a visual memory since. I have tried explaining it, but in the end I thought it was just me. I didn't know there was name for it or that anyone was studying it. Hear you talk about it means so much.

You are the first person to bring up memory and the concept of time. I don't consider this a disability but rather a different way of storing and recalling information. I was 27 before I understood that my brain was simply different. I simply thought the whole yoga picture your self on a beach thing was nonsensical because it never calmed me down.

I stumbled across aphantasia last night. I had no idea the blackness I see when I close my eyes wasn't common. I've been like this my entire life. I thought the whole "mind's eye" was a metaphor or spiritual phenomenon.

I just learned I have aphantasia and can now see clearly why I was such a slow learner in school. Also, if I could see images in my head I would be soooo good at math, for me it’s like doing math in the dark, I can’t visualize the numbers 😭

I can definitely recall the images in the dreams right after but of course it goes away… the one thing that I’m absolutely STRUGGLING with is trying to find a way into astral projection and lucid dreaming, since you have to “see” the dream before you enter. It all feels figurative to me, it’s also why I always struggled with visualization techniques in yoga, and even reading books compared to watching movies. I only realized I had this last year but only truly began to piece together my own “symptoms” the past few months. It’s absolutely crazy to me that people actually count sheep

I have an immediate family member who has discovered they have this, I see it as others have described as a different way of thinking. Not a negative as I think it could be advantageous in many situations. Nice to see it discussed more as it seems to be a recently researched topic. Thank you for sharing this information.

Sherlock Holmes' memory palace made no sense to me at all 🤣

My fiancee has aphantasia, but also dreams very vividly. I wonder if the lack of "waking dreams" is a safeguard adaptation for the aphantasist brain to prevent them from overlaying mental images onto actual, realtime sensory information. I hope more neurologists investigate this condition. Her sister and mother both have aphantasia, but her father and brother do not.

Can’t be more proud ❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍

The intoduction was beautiful!👏👏👏

Thank you ! This explains why I am so immune to ptsd !

Good info contained.

Wow, all this time... This sparked such an interest with me. Now I know what to call it.

Thank you, sister aphant.

Proud of you 😍

ماشاء الله ياهوبا 💕

Excellent presentation

She's talking know about the fact that many people remember events as if it was like a video. I remember a psychology book that my counselor was trying to get me to read and it talks about visualizing events from your past running the tape through your mind. I tried but I couldn't do that because I don't remember things that way. I don't have a videotape of experiences... I remember that I have gone certain places, done certain things, but I don't have a videotape in my mind of the situation. It's more like a series of facts. But I can sometimes play back in my mind what I have seen, like a as if it were a camera. I play tennis and I can watch another person swinging, and sometimes I can play it back in my head and realize, "oh you did this wrong..." I don't have total aphantasia because I can visualize an apple, just not full color.

So farfrom everyone I know like me that cant see anything but darkness, we have all had child hood head injuries. Alot of us never went to the doctors as it was "a bump on the head" that gave us a concussion or knocked us out. Like sporting injuries etc that got brushed off as no one knew how bad it actually was

Woww 😍😍😍

Anyone have a strategy with memory Palace with aphantasia?

I have so many questions now that I know about this lol … what do people see when they visualize about or read about double entendre do two images comes up In there mind Lol 😂 .. I’m so confused

I have aphantasia and vivid dreams. When I'm awake I can't visualize, when I sleep I can. I sometimes have lucid dreams too. Does this mean I have the ability to maybe visualize awake too? And I have seen hallucinations too.

Maybe the first video not trying to tell me how to fix it or that I’m lacking. I don’t feel broken. That you for saying we don’t need to be fixed.

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I have always had aphantasia & anauralia.

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I just found out about this. How are people functional with a second layer of visual input? I already get distracted enough with regular sight. The idea of a tv tuned to my thoughts and going on constantly inside my head sounds like a nightmare scenario. How can people drive a car with that level of distraction? I'm fairly certain it's illegal to drive with a video distracting the driver.

Total blackness... 0 I can't imagine how you guys see things with your eyes closed...its as weird to me as human calculators. I have very vivid dreams and a great memory for little details...I just can't imagine things

I'm sorry I found it hard to understand you, to hear you. I really am interested in this topic but I can't finish. If you spoke slower maybe. Not a criticism.

If you have aphantasia you have the right to hate god.

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This is probably the worst TED talk I've ever seen