
What in the what is ‘Aphantasia’?
Close your eyes and picture yourself walking along a beautiful beach. Picture the horizon and and the beautiful colours os the sun setting over the ocean. Now open your eyes.
Did you have a clear picture of that beach and sunset?
If you couldn’t conjure up those images in your head, you probably have the condition scientists only just discovered this year – Aphantasia.
Aphantasia is the inability to visualise mental images. You know people say they see things in their ‘mind’s eye’? Aphantasia is when you have a blind mind’s eye. And the reason its only just been discovered is that most people with the condition don’t realise that they’re different to anyone else.
