My gaining here is that people without aphantasia still have weakness in creating mental images. Aphantasia people just have more. Writing a visual description, creating a mental image for art, or remembering every moment of life are obviously difficult tasks to normal person, while trained aphantasia person may be able to. In my experience, intention of creating mental image directly turn to the “feeling” of creating the image(most people stops here), which can be scattered easily if I try to look up the image clearly.
Based on unreliable online source, aphantasia comes from the error of response from visual part of brain. Then brain’s memory ability can be unrelated issue. Well, it is intuitive to remember something we know well and vice versa. We can lead to more memory issue.
My gaining here is that people without aphantasia still have weakness in creating mental images. Aphantasia people just have more. Writing a visual description, creating a mental image for art, or remembering every moment of life are obviously difficult tasks to normal person, while trained aphantasia person may be able to. In my experience, intention of creating mental image directly turn to the “feeling” of creating the image(most people stops here), which can be scattered easily if I try to look up the image clearly.
Based on unreliable online source, aphantasia comes from the error of response from visual part of brain. Then brain’s memory ability can be unrelated issue. Well, it is intuitive to remember something we know well and vice versa. We can lead to more memory issue.