Dr. David Eagleman

I just never hear that.

So we're on opposite ends of the spectrum that way.

But, you know, one of the things I've studied is aphantasia all the way to hyperphantasia.

An ant crawling on a tablecloth towards a jar of purple jelly.

Some people see it like a movie in their head that's called hyperphantasia.

Some people have no picture at all in their head that's called aphantasia.

Picture a sun coming over the mountain and the rays of the sun poking through the clouds and then it starts raining and rains coming down.

So the question is, do you see it as clearly as a movie or do you have really no visual anything in your head or are you somewhere in between?

Typically this is judged on a scale from one to five where five is a movie, one is no visual at all, and three is in between.

Essentially, yes.

They're seeing it like vision.

Now, I happen to be aphantasic, so it's very hard.

I've studied this for years.

I've interviewed hundreds of people on this.

And so I get their description, but I can't picture that myself.

By the way, it's an interesting quick tangent.

For years, I've talked with Ed Catmull about this.

Ed Catmull is the guy who started Pixar, Pixar with all these terrific animated films and so on.

Ed has all these patents on like how to do ray tracing to get the you know, to get these animated characters looking as amazing as they do.

He was surprised when he discovered that he was aphantasia.