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Aphantasia - Aphantasic in the Field

  Before we begin I'd like to lead this with a little exam. I want you to take a second and close your eyes, try to focus your senses on my voice, I want you to imagine a table with a cup on it and two chairs. Then Someone walks in and occupies one of the chairs. Are you all set?  Now open your eyes, Good morning! I have only two questions to ask and you just have to answer with yes or no.  When you imagined the cup placed on the table, could you see what color that cup was? What about the person who walked into the room and occupied the chair, could you tell who that person was? Was it someone you know for instance?  Well, if you can see this then Congratulations! you are off the hook, quite the opposite from 2% of the world's population. Some people find it impossible to imagine that cup, the person who walked in, or even the face of someone they miss!  A phenomenon named Aphantasia, people with Aphantasia can never build a mental image, their mind’s eye is bl...
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