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Aphantasia is the inability to create mental imagery.

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Does anyone here have aphantasia without SDAM? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/aphantasia@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] BlueSerendipity8@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I would suggest that someone who does not lack multisensory mental imagery—what scientists refer to even for non-visual senses—may be able to vividly recollect past events from a first-person perspective (often described as a time travel flashback) using the senses that are not affected. Therefore, they may not be severely impacted or affected at all.