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ourguile ◴[] No.45763099[source]
https://archive.ph/iMdvd

I have aphantasia and it always astounds me when I see an article like this, or hear a friend talking about it (about not having it) and realize that their experience of the world is so fundamentally different than my own.

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tekacs ◴[] No.45763352[source]
Have you seen the Aphantasia Apples?

https://lianamscott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/f4c55-1_b...

As in: if you look at this image, can you place yourself on a scale of 1 - 5 of with what kind of fidelity you can picture an apple if you try to imagine it?

I'm a 5 for example, and in asking many people this question I've gotten a solid spectrum of answers from 1 - 5. Generally in a single group of a handful of people I'll get several different numbers.

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1. AndrewKemendo ◴[] No.45771549[source]
Is there a 0 where you can make the apple into anything you decide?

For example I can picture infinite combinations of apples, large, small, one with bites, one with orange inside, one with glass skin etc…