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		BoardsOfCanada on June 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind I think that sounds normal. The mind's eye is more like evoking the sense of seeing something without actually seeing it.

SamPatt on June 23, 2024 [–]

This seems like a major point of confusion on the subject.

I agree with your interpretation, but there are those charts which show varying degrees of clarity of mental images (using an apple), I don't understand how to square that with just invoking the sense instead of actually seeing it.

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