>>7596865
Aphantasia is a myth.
The studies on it are extremely flawed and rely on self-reporting or presuming that everyone's life is the same and requries the same cognitive tasks.
The fact is, humans are intellectual misers. If you try to imagine something that you have obsessed to some degree over, such that it has great meaning and emotional weight in its form to you - something you may have only shared with your closest friends - then you are much more likely to be able to picture it. And then you can picture it with other things, and so on. Even if you struggle to imagine things absent it still.
Commonly-claimed "aphantasia" is a combination of a lack of practiced skill, lack of dedication to stopping and SEEING enough to form a mental library, oftentimes some form of trauma, and a huge helping of self-perception with regards to what is "normal."
Half of you fucks who claim you can't imagine an apple have not so much as held one in your hand in years.
