Last year I discovered I have aphantasia.
I have no minds eye and cannot conjure imagery in my mind.
2% of people are like this. Our minds are blind.
75% of people have no inner monologue. Their minds are silent.
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I also have aphantasia. Realized that my mind works differently during a conversation with a friend. It was about "counting the sheep" to fall asleep.
On the other hand, my inner monologue is really loud and hard to turn off.
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Kinda sucks that I can't imagine faces of loved ones or places I've visited. But it's easy for me to remember things I've heard, like song lyrics or stuff someone said years ago. For example I still remember my friends poem from second grade and I'm 30.
When I realised I had a bit of a quarter life crisis but so much of my personality made sense instantly. I used to think picture in your head was a metaphor. And, like you said some people can recreate music, smell and touch too.
My first reaction was jealousy towards my friend :/
Took couple of weeks for me to get over it.
I still think that being able to create pictures in your head is a superpower.
If it makes you feel better I use the Dare Devil analogy. We are blind but our other senses are heightened. I’m sure like me, you’ve thought up a few thousand books worth of content in your head. Also, means we are forced to live life to experience it.
It’s so hard to explain to others. I know abstractly what things look like. Curious if like me you were deemed ‘intelligent’ by teachers but always underperformed in exams. I realise now all my class mates were cheating. They had the books in their head!
I did quite well in exams because I remembered what the teacher had said in class.
I can easily describe things I've seen, like what color or shape something is, just unable to form a picture of it in my head.