THE VIDEO SHELF · aphantasia
I have APHANTASIA (and you may too...without realising it!)
An artist describes discovering she has aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, and how it affects her work. She asks viewers about their own visualization.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as a vivid first-person description of aphantasia and an example of an aphantasic artist.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- JAMIEvstheVOID
- Topic
- aphantasia
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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A little slow, but this video is fantastic for describing the feeling of aphantasia and it's sort of doubly fascinating that the incredibly talented artist who made it suffers from it (as I'm the flip side, great at visualizing and horrid at creation) [VIDEO]
michaelbuckbee on Hacker News · 2019-06
In AphantasiaSo I have aphantasia, and I first realized when talking to someone about mental images and memories. They have photorealistic pictures in their mind, or even video scenes like a movie. At my best I have something like an expressionist painting with words and concepts …
cybersol on Hacker News · 2019-01
In The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.