my theory is that aphantasia is purely about conscious access to visualizing not the existence of the ability to visualise.

I have aphantasia but I would say that spatial reasoning is one of the things my brain is the best at

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golol 2 days ago | parent [-]

How does one determine they have aphantasia? How do you know that you are not doing exactly this thing people call visualizing when you perform spatial reasoning?

	▲	polytely 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		No idea, but when people say they can visualize an apple and then say it feels like number 1 on that chart, I would say that my experience of whatever I'm doing when I'm 'visualizing' an apple is more like 4 or 5 https://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AppleVi... I can only assume people are trying to accurately describe their own experience so when my experience seems to differ a lot it seems to me that there is more going on than just confusion about wording.