Dr. David Eagleman

Now, this seems surprising and strange, right?

But it turns out that if you are an aphantasia kid, you're going to become better at drawing because you have to really pay attention to the subject out there and really have a dialogue with the page with your pencil.

Whereas a kid who's hyperphantasia might say, oh, I know what a horse looks like and just draws it.

So anyway.

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So it turns out there's a real spectrum across the population, meaning inside your head, my head, we're having pretty different experiences.

But I've studied this along dozens of different axes and everyone's got different things going on.

Just as one example, do you know about synesthesia?

Have you ever heard of this?

Is that forgetting or something?

No, synesthesia is having a blending of the senses.

So someone with synesthesia might look at letters and it triggers a color experience in their head.

So they look at J and that triggers green and they look at M and that triggers blue and whatever.

It's different for each person.

Or you might hear music and it triggers a visual experience or you might taste something and it puts a feeling on your fingertips or whatever.

It's just, it's a blending of the senses.

At least 3% of the population has this.

It's not a disease or a disorder.