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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

As an aphantastic person I am on the opposite end I guess.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hey now you are still a phantastic person!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Hehe, nice. Haven’t heard that one before.

[–] victorz 6 points 2 days ago

Never heard of this before, and it's a pretty cool topic to delve into. I also stumbled upon hyperphantasia which sounds absolutely incredible. Imagination so vivid it's basically like real seeing.

"It's better than sex!"

[–] cynar 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can still have an eidedic memory (as mentioned by Brenstar).

A photographic memory is just a perfect visual memory.

I tried training it once. It didn't go well. It turns out I'm mostly aphantastic as well. I can still have fully visualised dreams however, which is always odd.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ted Ed recently made a video on it and they cover how dreaming could worl. I would summarise it... but I zoned out in that part of the video

https://youtu.be/Z_gV1hEqlA8