Wendy Zuckerman (Science Vs host) / Radiolab clips narrator (also uses Radiolab voices)
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Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
They're both heads or tails.
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Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
He doesn't remember which.
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Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
And then he flips them again.
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Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
And he starts to believe that he can control them.
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Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
So he'd flip the coins and think to himself.
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Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
And he'd see they were both
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Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
And they'd both be... Heads down.
Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
Derek says what happened next gets kind of foggy.
Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
So you stopped being able to tell the difference between an imagination and reality.
Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
Derek's roommates kicked him out.
Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
Derek wandered around all night and actually ended up living on the street for several years.
Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
He does eventually get a diagnosis, schizophrenia, and he gets on medication for that.
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Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
And he says that things are better, but he still sometimes experiences psychotic episodes.
Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye
Is the hyperphantasia a common symptom of schizophrenia?