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?
Yeah, I think what it is is that I can remember things that I took note of at the time (like, in my factual memory), but nothing beyond that. And that combined with my narrow perception means that I have very poor memory of past events.