/r/Aphantasia: Degrees of Imagined Sense

Everybody in the world has different levels of visualisation ability, audio(isation?), imagined smell, taste, perhaps even feel/tactile etc. From what I've gathered around just asking individuals, 'imagining' tactile sensation seems to be the rarest, while audio and visual potentially being the main forms of imagined sense.



The rare subset of the population that have Synthesia, actually experience certain sensory elements as being combined, or associated in some way with the other sensory. This is very hard to imagine, just as it is hard for somebody to imagine Aphantasia, without having it themselves.



Figuring out someones internal imagined sensory daily use is difficult. For a long time, as many of us are surely aware, these topics often get blurry because of language constraints, such as the minds eye, metaphor or literal? We know its literal, and for the nature of this survey everything in the context of sensory experience should be taken literal.

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