Comments on Profile Post by Impregmaniac

not necessarily; here's a quick aphantasia test. Close your eyes and imagine a red apple: what do you see?

A circle for the most part

That does sound like some level of aphantasia. (I can't imagine anything inside my brain, so I've got it even worse.)

not quite aphantasia but you do have low capacity for visualization (I do too btw)

How does aphantasia affect the reading/writing experience? Personally, if I couldn't think up a person based on the description of said person, I doubt I'd enjoy reading about them as much. And also, how does this work with memory? Can you not see what happened in that memory?

@GyroscopicGraphite neither myself nor Impregmaniac have aphantasia, but rather hypophantasia; which means our visualization capacity is reduced but still there. Part of why I'm a bookworm is vivid descriptions can create vivid images in my head, which is the only way that ever happens. For the same reason, I play Dungeons and Dragons.

@GyroscopicGraphite for me, I need an anchor or reference point for the picture to pop up in my head. If I were to imagine a person, I'd need to remember a celebrity's face that's kind of close to what I think they'd look like, and make adjustments from there.

@OccasionalReader funnily enough, it was during my Pathfinder game when I had the 'epiphany' of my hypophantasia, because I constantly show pictures or movie scenes to my players when I can't quite explain whats happening.