minds eye

[dollydaydreamer]

interested who else has aphantasia? basically means an inability to visualise imagery. no minds eye. I see nothing, I have no ability to see faces or remember scenes.smell, hear in my head.The idea that others can blows my mind!!
For sex,this means I rely a lot on looking at pics, reading,talking dirty and being talked to.sex can't be quiet! I know what my fantasies are,just that I can't see them.i just have to think them.its so hard to explain!
It does effect life occasionally but this week,its been really pissing me off!

 

[Saint_Ann]

interested who else has aphantasia? basically means an inability to visualise imagery. no minds eye. I see nothing, I have no ability to see faces or remember scenes.smell, hear in my head.The idea that others can blows my mind!!
For sex,this means I rely a lot on looking at pics, reading,talking dirty and being talked to.sex can't be quiet! I know what my fantasies are,just that I can't see them.i just have to think them.its so hard to explain!
It does effect life occasionally but this week,its been really pissing me off!

You could just be senile. There's a lot of that here.

 

[InternationalFunboy]

Wait what?? How does this work? If I asked you to describe the street you grew up on, or what the seats in your first car looked like... your favorite outfit, or your mom's hair on Christmas morning... could you?
For me, these questions prompt my brain to re-create these spaces in my mind with dimension and color. I can perceive peripheral details. I can remember things I smelled.

What did the last Ruffles potato chip bag you held look like? Where was your favorite picture of yourself taken?

Fascinating.

 

[Hipshot1554]

interested who else has aphantasia? basically means an inability to visualise imagery. no minds eye. I see nothing, I have no ability to see faces or remember scenes.smell, hear in my head.The idea that others can blows my mind!!
For sex,this means I rely a lot on looking at pics, reading,talking dirty and being talked to.sex can't be quiet! I know what my fantasies are,just that I can't see them.i just have to think them.its so hard to explain!
It does effect life occasionally but this week,its been really pissing me off!

I have a sister-in-law that suffers from this. I thought for years that she was snooty, but then she told us about it. She simply doesn't regognize anyone until she gets a few clues as to who they are.

 

[oggbashan]

I can create a whole world, a complete story, revisit a place I haven't been to for years - all in my head.

I can walk down a street I last walked down sixty years ago and imagine how it looks now.

That ability helps my story writing.

 

[dollydaydreamer]

I have a sister-in-law that suffers from this. I thought for years that she was snooty, but then she told us about it. She simply doesn't regognize anyone until she gets a few clues as to who they are.

I'd forgotten I posted this! yes, people think I'm rude, I just have have no recollection of seeing them before.

 

[Hipshot1554]

I had never heard of the disorder until a couple of years ago, and just recently have seen it represented in a couple of TV shows.

Does it affect you watching/enjoying porn?

 

[stickygirl]

I had never heard of the disorder until a couple of years ago, and just recently have seen it represented in a couple of TV shows.

Does it affect you watching/enjoying porn?

Disorder? no - just a different way of being. I can believe it's an inconvenience and I'm crap with names/faces but being able to visualise things at all sucks.

 

[Hipshot1554]

Condition then. All manner the questions come to mind about this. I wonder if the coping mechanisms differ between people affected this way?

 

[dollydaydreamer]

I had never heard of the disorder until a couple of years ago, and just recently have seen it represented in a couple of TV shows.

Does it affect you watching/enjoying porn?

not at all, my husband likes to film me and we watch that back. And lots of photies!

 

[dollydaydreamer]

Condition then. All manner the questions come to mind about this. I wonder if the coping mechanisms differ between people affected this way?

I also have SDAM, severely deficient autobiographical memory. Whether it's connected or not I don't know.But i can look at photos of my wedding day, births, holidays and not remember them. my house is covered in photos,my phone is full of family. My way of coping.

 

[Hipshot1554]

I don't ask my SIL about it. She kept it a secret for so long and I don't feel she would like me asking questions.

 

[dollydaydreamer]

I don't ask my SIL about it. She kept it a secret for so long and I don't feel she would like me asking questions.

it's just another way of a brain working. who knows what's going on in there!

 

[Hipshot1554]

I meant her coping methods. I speak to her immediately, then she knows it's me.