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What do you know about aphantasia? Part 1.

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When we call someone unimaginative, we often refer to a person's poor imagination, but there is a state of the brain where it is physically unable to imagine anything [1] . People with aphantasia, or a "blind mind," often lack other imaginative senses, such as auditory or gustatory imagination. The condition manifests itself differently in different people: while some, like Loren Bouyer [2] , cannot imagine any sensory sensations, others can retain certain fantasies, such as touch or sound. The owner of the "blind mind" shed light on the various inner experiences of thinking of people with aphantasia, from the absence of pre-imagined conversations to the subconscious workings of the mind, which guides everyday activities without the need for visual or auditory biases. The difficulty people with this brain dysfunction have is perceiving images as they are, in stark contrast to typical visual processing, challenging our assumptions about how the brain construc