Living Life Mind’s Eye Blind

If you’re like most people, you have never heard of aphantasia. Also, if you’re like most people, you don’t have aphantasia. But if you do have this relatively newly discovered and named condition, then you have a hard time picturing how anyone can live picturing things in their mind. That’s because aphantasia is described as the absence of a mind’s eye or inability to picture things in their mind. I live with this and I love it. Up until about three years ago, I thought everyone was like me.

I first discovered it while listening to an episode of my favorite science program…