<story><title>Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?</title><url>https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1374349/full</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>japoco</author><text>I was pretty intrigued by Aphantasia a while ago, as I can’t picture anything at all with my eyes closed. Then I asked all my friends and none of them could either, apparently. So I’m wondering what “picturing” means in the definition of aphantasia?
With my eyes closed all I see is pitch black, but I can “imagine” myself seeing a red apple even with my eyes open, I don’t actually see anything though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klipt</author><text>Consider another sense, like hearing. Many people experience &amp;quot;earworms&amp;quot; where a song gets stuck in their head and plays repeatedly. They know it&amp;#x27;s not actually playing since there&amp;#x27;s no &amp;quot;external&amp;quot; sound but they can hear it &amp;quot;internally&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Picturing&amp;quot; something in your head is the same, just with the sense of vision instead of the sense of hearing.</text></comment>
<story><title>Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?</title><url>https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1374349/full</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>japoco</author><text>I was pretty intrigued by Aphantasia a while ago, as I can’t picture anything at all with my eyes closed. Then I asked all my friends and none of them could either, apparently. So I’m wondering what “picturing” means in the definition of aphantasia?
With my eyes closed all I see is pitch black, but I can “imagine” myself seeing a red apple even with my eyes open, I don’t actually see anything though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Climato</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think you have it if you can imagine something.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s meant to be in that dark space &amp;#x2F; visual eye space.</text></comment>