Aphantasia 💭

Mentionned study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S096098222401652X

Found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/1hxgcof/study_ability_to_voluntarily_visualise_and_body/

Coment of the original author:

I am a student at Dublin Business School and I am doing a Higher National Diploma in Psychology. For my research project/thesis I am investigating the link between the ability to voluntarily visualise and the impact on body image.

Studies in body image show that part of the problem can be how you view yourself and some of the treatments are visualisation based. So I am wondering if visualisers or us are more or less at risk. I am not hypothesising either way.

The survey contains the VVIQ (which we can help complete pretty quickly) and then some questions related to body image.

I need to get roughly 70 people in my aphantasia group so would really appreciate your time!

Survey Link: https://forms.office.com/e/VHQiD1Rnx5

In this episode, we are very excited and fortunate to have a discussion with Adam Zeman. Adam tells us his story about how he was involved in coining the term "aphantasia" and how his research and articles got picked up by the media, resulting in the large interest in this phenomenon that we see today. He shares with us where he falls in all of this including all of his inner senses. We ask him about many things that we have been curious about as well as questions from a number of people from an aphantasia facebook group. These topics include, the VVIQ, early imagery research, aphantasia percentages, SDAM, pupil response, wakeful imagery vs dreaming, links to trauma, and unconscious imagery or "seeing without seeing". He also explains to us an interesting study surrounding "Blind Sight".

• https://podcast.discoveringyourmind.com/2287126/episodes/16276041-aphantasia-q-a-with-adam-zeman
• https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/aphantasia-q-a-with-adam-zeman/id1726498892?i=1000682226608
• https://pca.st/episode/0e2b6f31-d345-440b-8cc7-122460be1a27
• https://deezer.page.link/v3FrTqSgWFg1CJsGA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddMmenkOmWM

I found out about SDAM recently and it seems like I definitely have it, and from everything I've heard it has a lot of overlap with aphantasia. I'm wondering if it's even possible to separate them or they're part of the same thing.

I'm curious if anyone here has the experience of aphantasia without SDAM, and what their experience is like if that's the case. Like, how does one read those episodic memories without a mind's eye?

• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aphantasia-thinking-without-a-minds-eye-with-dr-adam-zeman/id1486602077?i=1000557890805
• https://open.spotify.com/episode/3MrJobPcRcdax1nAi84IDj
• https://lnns.co/IZmWuiMTRN1

The realtes study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945224003083

• https://open.spotify.com/episode/1duimi4gmbfCXHV6eV6q7V
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anauralia-whats-it-like-to-have-no-inner-monologue/id73330911?i=1000677180439
• https://player.fm/series/all-in-the-mind-abc-radio-national/anauralia-whats-it-like-to-have-no-inner-monologue
• https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/117510858

Seen here : https://bsky.app/profile/sampendu.bsky.social/post/3l5djyvxoug2s

• https://open.spotify.com/show/0fcZzpTa0gc2SihALG7w8i
• https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/discovering-your-mind-aphantasia-and-beyond/id1726498892
• https://pca.st/b6o8jb7k