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Aphantasia... apparently 3% of the world has it. Any aphantasists in here, who've had success improving their condition? (lemmy.world)

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10 years ago, I'd have put my ability to visualise at 0 out of 10. Practice and occasional halucinogen use has got me to 2 out of 10. It causes no end of problems in day to day life, so I'm interested to hear if anyone has tips or just experiences to share so it doesn't feel such a lonely frustrating issue.

edit informative comment from @Gwaer@lemm.ee about image streaming, I did a bit of digging on the broken links, the Dr isn't giving the info away for free anymore without buying their (expensive) book, but I found some further info on additional techniques here, pages 2/3: https://nlpcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Image-Streaming-Mode-of-Thinking.pdf

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[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Very interesting, I'd never heard of prophantasia before. I have a friend who definitely has that (or at least, claims to and I see no reason why he'd lie, he's quite brusque and 'painfully honest' in all other areas and happy to admit other deficiences). He says it's really useful when he's designing circuitry / LED devices to be able to move things around in 3D.

[-] Otome-chan@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Both 2 and 3 can mentally manipulate objects in 3D. I have type 2 as I mentioned, but I can do full 3d rotations and such. It's just a "minds eye" kinda thing and not like i'm actually seeing it with my eyes. That makes it kinda difficult to line up my minds eye comprehension with the actual world I see in front of me. whereas people with prophantasia or that third type, should have no issues lining up their visualization with their actual vision.

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