As a person with lifelong complete and total aphantasia, I am so thrilled by my new experiences. Since beginning to commune with the divine via psilocybin earlier this year, I've had at least half a dozen visual images in my mind when I'm sober.
Tonight I had another, during lucid dreaming.
For over 10 years, I've been hoping something might give me a connection to my mental imagery, since I first discovered this difference in my experience. And now I'm averaging once a month! 🤯
I am an artist but also aphantasic, which is a problem occasionally! So here's a poll for visual artists with aphantasia.
Let's say visual art includes traditional arts (painting drawing etc), graphic design, set design, sculpture, architecture, anything where not having mental pictures might be expected to be an obstacle. Feel free to reply with more detail.
Aphantasic artists please share your work in replies!
For my art practice specifically, #aphantasia is…
Ha, this video about #aphantasia is a good visual (lol) about my inability to ‘see’ images (especially the opening about Alice in Wonderland)
@TheOneDoc @aceryz @miss_rodent @glyph I can think of multiple circumstances where this assertion is absolutely incorrect… 🙃
…but taking it in the spirit I think it’s meant – in my case even while this may be technically correct (as we know, the best* kind of correct 🤪), a combination of #aphantasia & lack of skill / practice mean that unless I’m copying something that already exists and is directly in front of me, anything I draw^ will both lack artistic merit and be highly derivative – at which point I might as well use the spicy autogen, but to that I say… “HELL no” 💁♀️
^ I mean, I can photoshop* the crap out of things, but again – derivative 😕
Lucaas ✍️👖🦄
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