Discovering Your Mind - Aphantasia and Beyond
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Yes, I'll have a large helping of what's going on in Louis Silverstein's head, with a slice of Shane's Brain on the side. Part 2.
23 Dec 2025
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Send us a textIn part 2, Louis Silverstein continues to say some very interesting things, like how listening to music he is very familiar with helps h...
Yes, I'll have a large helping of what's going on in Louis Silverstein's head, with a slice of Shane's Brain on the side. Part 1.
16 Dec 2025
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Send us a textIn part 1, I have very interesting conversation with Louis Silverstein about what is happening in his mind, and he in turn, also asks me...
Discovering the Mind of Bruce Silverstein
25 Nov 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Bruce Silverstein's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Bruce has aphan...
Aphantasia Outside The Norm - Hypnagogia, Psychedelics, and Visions
11 Nov 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode I welcome several guests with aphantasia or hypophantasia to share their outside the norm experiences with visuals. Lind...
Discovering the Mind of Kali Walsh
28 Oct 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Kali Walsh's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Kali has hyperphantasi...
Aphantasia, Grief, and Artificial Intelligence.
21 Oct 2025
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Send us a textThis is a mini episode derived from a discussion that a few of us from the Aphantasia, Visualization, and Grief panel discussion had abo...
Aphantasia, Visualization, and Grief - Panel Discussion.
14 Oct 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode I bring back several guests to discuss how visualizing or not being able to visualize interplays with how we grieve or e...
Aphantasia, Hypnosis, and Mental Health with Dr Paulina Trevena
07 Oct 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode, we bring back Dr Paulina Trevena to further discuss her work and experiences within the worlds of aphantasia, hypnosis,...
Aphantasia, Visualization, and Hypnosis. Panel Experiments with Dr Paulina Trevena
30 Sep 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode, we bring back several guests to participate in some hypnosis processes and protocols to explore how aphantasia and visu...
Discovering the Mind of Lindsay Rice
23 Sep 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Lindsay Rice's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Lindsay is a 3rd gra...
Discovering the Mind of Isaac Mathews
16 Sep 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Isaac Mathew's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Isaac is a musician ...
Aphantasia, Art, and Discovery with Dawn Rossbach
09 Sep 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode I talk with Dawn Rossbach who is a very talented artist who has aphantasia and SDAM. We note that some folks assume that...
An Aphantastic Hodgepodge with Kristin Erickson Part 2
02 Sep 2025
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Send us a textIn part 2 with Kristen Erickson she continues to boggle my mind because the way she describes her experiences really does sound like she...
An Aphantastic Hodgepodge with Kristin Erickson Part 1
26 Aug 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode I talk with Kristen Erickson who has aphantasia but her experiences with it seem very different than mine. In fact, base...
Aphantasia, Visualization, and Education
22 Jul 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode, we have several guests from many different backgrounds and experience to explore how aphantasia and visualization inter...
Discovering the Mind of Celeste
10 Jun 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Celeste's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Celeste has aphantasia bu...
Now What?
07 Jan 2025
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Send us a textNow What? Now What? Now What? Now What? Now What? Now What? Now What? Now What? Now What? Now What? Now What? Now What? Now What? Now Wh...
Aphantasia Q&A with Adam Zeman
31 Dec 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode, we are very excited and fortunate to have a discussion with Adam Zeman. Adam tells us his story about how he was involv...
Discovering the Mind of Nikki O'Connor
24 Dec 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Nikki O'Connor's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Nikki is a Cr...
Aphantasia, Neurodiversity, and Healing with Rebecca McHale
17 Dec 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode Rebecca McHale, Therapeutic Coach, takes us through many interesting topics surrounding aphantasia and therapy, includin...
Discovering the Mind of Jan Nichols
10 Dec 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Jan Nichols' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Jan has aphantasia and...
Discovering the Mind of Dana Swindell
03 Dec 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Dana Swindell's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Dana describes her ...
Aphantasia VS Hyperphantasia Panel Discussion Part 2
26 Nov 2024
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Send us a textIn part 2, Shane, Stacy, Donna, Stacey, Garret, Matthew, and Cole talk about the inherent difficulty in delving into our individual diff...
Aphantasia VS Hyperphantasia Panel Discussion Part 1
19 Nov 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode, we bring back several guests from previous episodes to further explore the different experiences people are having in t...
Aphantasia, Poetry, and Coaching with Kate Jenkinson
12 Nov 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode, Kate Jenkinson shares her love of poetry and explains how having aphantasia affects the way she writes, performs, and e...
Discovering the Mind of Brandon Lincoln
05 Nov 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Brandon Lincoln's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Brandon used to t...
Aphantasia, Memory, and Brain Research
29 Oct 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we explore whether or not people with aphantasia struggle with memory more than those who can visualize. We discuss a st...
Amazing Memory, HSAM, and Mind Palaces
22 Oct 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we explore the topic of memory from the perspective of superior memory and memory improvement. We discuss HSAM, Hyperthy...
Poor Memory, SDAM, and Amnesia
15 Oct 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we explore the topic of memory from the perspective of memory deficiency and specific conditions, situations, and disord...
Aphantasia, Creative Writing, and Inner Quiet with Drew Lamm
08 Oct 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode, Drew Lamm shares beautiful insights about aphantasia and writing and life. We talk about following the pen, some shortc...
Discovering the Mind of Elena DeLisle
01 Oct 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Elena DeLisle's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Elena is a musician...
Discovering the Mind of Caitlyn
24 Sep 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Caitlyn's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Caitlyn can't visual...
Discovering the Mind of Stacy Fahrion
17 Sep 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Stacy Fahrion's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Stacy is a very tal...
Aphantasia: What We Know So Far.
10 Sep 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode, Shane and Cole attempt to discuss everything, old and new, about aphantasia and give a basic overview of the phenomenon...
Discovering the Mind of Brett Kelley Part 2
03 Sep 2024
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Send us a textIn part 2 we discover more about how Brett Kelley's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Brett talks abo...
Discovering the Mind of Brett Kelley Part 1
27 Aug 2024
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Send us a textIn part 1 we discover how Brett Kelley's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Brett can imagine what it&...
Discovering the Mind of Paula Puffer... or "I smell dead people"
20 Aug 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Paula Puffer's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. The second guest in ...
Discovering the Mind of Daniel Faust
13 Aug 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Daniel Faust's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Daniel explains that...
Discovering the Mind of Michael Nielsen
06 Aug 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Michael Nielsen's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Michael's mi...
Discovering the Mind of Garrett Sudweeks Part 2
30 Jul 2024
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Send us a textWelcome to Part 2 of Discovering the Mind of Garrett Sudweeks. In this episode, Garrett talks about how he dislikes books with too much ...
Discovering the Mind of Garrett Sudweeks Part 1
23 Jul 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Garrett Sudweeks' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. We have another g...
Anendophasia (No Inner Voice) with researcher Johanne Nedergård
16 Jul 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode, Johanne Nedergård explains her involvement in research surrounding inner speech and more specifically, the lack thereo...
Discovering the Mind of Kary Jensen
09 Jul 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Kary Jensen's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Kary leads us into so...
Discovering the Mind of Laurel Smith-Williams - Part 2
02 Jul 2024
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Send us a textWelcome to part 2 of discovering the mind of Laurel Smith-Williams. In this episode, we discover that Laurel has a hard time imagining u...
Discovering the Mind of Laurel Smith-Williams - Part 1
25 Jun 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Laurel Smith-Williams' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Laurel is hy...
An Aphantastic Conversation with Haley and Isaiah
18 Jun 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we interview married couple, Haley and Isaiah, who both have aphantasia. Well, technically, Haley is hypophantastic, but...
Aphantasia, Visualization, and Disorders
11 Jun 2024
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Send us a textThis episode is hosted by special guest-host Cole Williams. Cole is studying for BA of Science-Psychology. He leads us in an interesting...
Explain Shane's Brain
04 Jun 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode, I share and comment on questions and discussions from past guests about how my mind works. Many of my guests are curiou...
Discovering the Mind of Matthew Bockholt
28 May 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Matthew Bockholt's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Matthew is the m...
Discovering The Mind of C Michelle Jefferies
21 May 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Michelle Jefferies' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. We start out id...
Discovering the Mind of Alexander Vercoutre
14 May 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Alexander Vercoutre's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Join us as we...
Discovering the Mind of Alex Williams
07 May 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Alex Williams' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. It's really fun...
Discovering the Mind of Carl Demille
30 Apr 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Carl Demille's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Carl is an interesti...
Discovering the Mind of Shane Miner
23 Apr 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Shane Miner's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Shane is our second g...
Hyperphantasia and Beyond
16 Apr 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode with special guests, Cole Williams, and Stacey Williams, we delve a little deeper into the world of Hyperphantasia by ex...
Discovering the Mind of Stacey Williams
09 Apr 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Stacey Williams' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Stacey's mind...
Discovering the Mind of Cole Williams
02 Apr 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Cole Williams's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Cole can visualize ...
Discovering the Mind of Tony Ort
26 Mar 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Tony Ort's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Tony is our first guest ...
Discovering the Mind of Robbie Joosten
19 Mar 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Robbie Joosten's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Robbie has a lot o...
Discovering the Mind of Donna Jensen
12 Mar 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Donna Jensen's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Donna is our first p...
Imagination, Happy Places, and The Theater of the Mind with Sarah Pett
05 Mar 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode with special guest, Sarah Pett, we discuss how imagination can greatly affect childhood, and how visualization, or the l...
Discovering the Mind of Sarah Pett
27 Feb 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Sarah Pett's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Sarah's mind is r...
Discovering the Mind of Justin Turcsanski
20 Feb 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Justin Turcsanski's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Do you have a s...
Discovering the Mind of Karen Hyatt
13 Feb 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Karen Hyatt's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Hey Karen, thanks for...
Discovering the Mind of Sami Williams
06 Feb 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Sami Williams' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Let's have a bi...
Discovering the Mind of Ellis Pinkerton
30 Jan 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Ellis Pinkerton's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Can your mind be ...
Aphantasia, Visualization, and Communication with Ellis Pinkerton
23 Jan 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode with special guest, Ellis Pinkerton, we delve into how the way we visualize in our minds can effect how we communicate i...
Discovering the Mind of Dylan Bryant
23 Jan 2024
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Send us a textIn this episode we discover how Dylan Bryant's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Does Dylan have the ...
Aphantasia and Beyond
18 Jan 2024
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Send us a textJoin me in this first episode for a brief overview of what aphantasia is, how I discovered that I have it, the research I have conducted...