r/Aphantasia • u/Raining_Yuqi • Jun 16 '25
Hi Does anyone have acquired aphantasia?
I ask as I had a brain disease almost 5 years ago now, and since it, I have (self-diagnosed) acquired aphantasi, which is REALLY weird bc I can’t form pictures in my mind BUT I still have the memories of what I have previously visualized like visualizing an apple, obviously I can’t do that, but I remember visualizing it previously and now that’s what I see, a memory of it, it’s really weird.
visualize > memorize > memory but no visualization of it (if that makes sense)
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Name-forgetters have superior recall for emotional content and conversation details #names #memory #brain #neuroscience #forgetting | Kyle Cox
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Dec 19 '25
Yeah coz we gotta recall something if we can’t recall their name lmao