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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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One of my best friends has disclosed to me he suffers from this unusual condition. I had no idea people suffer from this and can't quite get my head round it.
My partner has the exact opposite with an over active imagination.
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It means you can't actually visualise things in your head and in most cases that means you are unable to fantasise.
I suffer from anhedonia and learned about aphantasia as part of that. I can visualise normal day to day situations but I've never had a fantasy. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Isn’t it something like you can’t imagine things?
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It is as _ealitybites says.
My partner dreams so vehemently it disturbs her sleep amd sometimes is very frightening for her. She is unable to watch horror movies. |
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"Isn’t it something like you can’t imagine things?
It is as _ealitybites says.
My partner dreams so vehemently it disturbs her sleep amd sometimes is very frightening for her. She is unable to watch horror movies."
I don't dream at all |
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I can't create visual images in my head, but I can fantasise. I don't "see" images of people or whatever, if I think of them. I can't envisage myself by the pool or on the beach. I can think about them and want to be at the pool/beach but the best I can explain is it's just the words in pencil. No image. No colour. |
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I have hyperphantasia and thought it was completely normal until I didn’t realise that not everyone else visualises absolutely everything. Every place, memory, situation etc is in full colour. I can even place people and objects in places that exist in my minds eye or create a visual for it.
It terrified me as a child. I actually became a visual artist later in life and only found out I had this condition when I was part of a university study that looked at how artists saw.
I also had and have terrifying nightmares and also cannot watch horror films as my minds eye will use the scene later scarily in full colour and replay it.
I cannot imagine what it is like to have the opposite and not be able to visualise anything at all. That must be so strange?
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"I have hyperphantasia and thought it was completely normal until I didn’t realise that not everyone else visualises absolutely everything. Every place, memory, situation etc is in full colour. I can even place people and objects in places that exist in my minds eye or create a visual for it.
It terrified me as a child. I actually became a visual artist later in life and only found out I had this condition when I was part of a university study that looked at how artists saw.
I also had and have terrifying nightmares and also cannot watch horror films as my minds eye will use the scene later scarily in full colour and replay it.
I cannot imagine what it is like to have the opposite and not be able to visualise anything at all. That must be so strange?
J"
I can visualise things that I know will happen so a work meeting for example but I cannot visualise a sexual fantasy.
The anhedonia I mentioned above is something I didn't even know was a condition. I always assumed it was just me until I was reading a Jack Reacher novel and a character was described in the same way I had always described myself so I had to research it.
It's impossible to describe to anyone who doesn't have it so i won't even try. It's much easier to Google it.
It has a much greater impact on my daily life than aphantasia |
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I cant watch horror movies or anything like that. I remember watching scarface and waking up nights after feeling the chainsaw going into my head or a vampire movies only im the one getting bitten and i can feel the pain of it as well so yeah too much imagination i have lol |
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"Out of interest how does the fantasy form?
For me it would be like watching a film play out in front of me but in my head?
Do you see anything?
J x"
That's how it works for me, like a build in media player, also good for music  |
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