Aphantasia is the inability to create images in one’s head. I also have no inner monologue. Ask me anything!
I have aphantasia, and no inner monologue AMA
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Aphantasia is the inability to create images in one’s head. I also have no inner monologue. Ask me anything!
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Basic question, how much does it affect your daily life?
Are you okay?
Have you tried anything to improve it?
I’ve always had a monologue but really struggled with visualisation until around age 20 when I started to smoke a lot of weed.
Since 20 weed plus mushrooms has really improved my ability to visualise and I think it makes me much better at physical & creative tasks!
Does it affect your dreams while sleeping
What do you do in the shower if not win every imaginary argument that has almost happened, could happen, or will never happen?
Do you plan for things in your mind or do you just wing life as situations come?
Do you by chance happen to have autism? My boyfriend also has no inner monologue and aphantasia and he has autism. According to what I’ve found both are apparently quite common for autistic folks! 😊
So is it just silence and dark ?
How did you discover you have aphantasia?
Me too! (No aphantasia though which most people do have)
Why
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Hi my ex husband had aphantasia. Do these two often go together? And how do you plan things without an inner monologue? What is thinking like for you?
Do you enjoy reading books?
How did you write tests in school without thinking with an inner dialogue? I can’t fathom to do anything without that inner voice or conscious inner thinking.
Have you ever tried meditation? That’s got to be really different
Can you see the images of your past memories tho?