Interesting that a popular fiction author is aphantasiac, I wonder how visually descriptive his writing is considering afaik descriptive writing like that is usually meant to elicit visualization.

[–] glingorfel@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I've convinced myself that we're not missing anything. every time I talk about it with people they'll ask questions like "well how do you know what apples look like??!!"

I can't explain how I know but I of course do know what apples look like. so what am I actually losing out on? it's all potatoes

[–] manuallybreathing@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

i'm maybe taking it for granted, but its not like I sit around visualising whatever I want, if you did need to know what something looked like you could always look it up anyway

I imagine dreaming could be very different? I tend to have visually very violent dreams, I wouldn't miss that, it's part of the reason I make an effort to avoid dreaming

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