I began to consider this as my mouth filled with the flavor of pineapple as I remembered the flavor of a pineapple.
Do other senses suffer from the same issue?
I began to consider this as my mouth filled with the flavor of pineapple as I remembered the flavor of a pineapple.
Do other senses suffer from the same issue?
Just last week I was looking up ADHD and autism in blind people, but I was also questioning whether blind people could have aphantasia. Or rather, how does blind people perceive roundness or a circle in their mind? They know what it feels like at least, so is it tied to some other sense? I’m guessing blind people have a way of mapping out surroundings and 3D space, but I imagine explaining how a person thinks about stuff like this is as hard to describe as whether two people perceive the same colours the same way.
People with aphantasia have improved spatial memory that tries to compensate for episodic memory.
So the first thing that I feel when I try to remember something is my position in the room, or where the person speaking to me was standing.
Same thing if I try and ‘see’ a circle. I’ll just feel the dimensions. Hard to describe but it’s almost like pressure in my frontal cortex. A circle feels like coming down from the left and right in a circular pattern, whereas imagining a tree feels like the pressure is at the bottom pushing up.