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What's the opposite of aphantasia? I have that. I can picture things in my mind so viscerally I have made myself throw up involuntarily on multiple occasions.
But it is also my engineering super power. Double edged sword.
Hyperphantasia is the opposite.
Hyperphantasia. A subset of that is prophantasia, where you can physically conjure a mental image in your field of vision, but that case is extremely rare.
Sounds like schizoaffective disorder to me.
Prophantasia is voluntary, and people not only control it, but as other comments point out, it feels like 'self'. My brother, a PhD psychologist, has developed an interest in aphantasia. Aphantasics rarely hallucinate. So, from talking with him, we have a pretty good working hypothesis that schizoaffective disorder affects the same brain pathways as prophantasia, i.e. hallucinations that are not under voluntary or conscious control. (As an interesting side note, in highly-individualistic cultures, the voices and images more often feel malevolent and 'other' to sufferers, in contrast to people in collectivist cultures, who experience them more often as friendly and familial. It's not necessarily maladaptive.)
Interesting stuff. My response was a half-joke, but I appreciate the additional information!
I can't "picture" things in my mind, but I get pretty strong "feelings" about relative volumes, lengths, shapes, etc. As a result I can eyeball measurements pretty accurately.
When it comes to physically organizing things in space, I literally have to guess and test, and just rearrange things until they work... But, I do still get that "feeling" about how it might work.
It's the same with empathy. If I see someone about to injur themselves, I don't "see" it, but it definitely get a flash of feeling and I'll wince and feel the thing.
Is that aphantasia? I didn't even know this was a thing, but... ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I can't see things in my head, but i love Tetris and I'm excellent at fitting a lot of suitcases in the trunk of a car.
One of the reasons I smoke marijuana is so that my dreams chill out. When I'm not smoking I can wake up still feeling tired because my dreams were too intense.