Aphantasia is one of these things that can only truly be understood by people who experience it. For people who are able to imagine what things look like as easily as breathing, it’s hard to ...

But most of the time, I saw nothing. As I’ve now learned, there’s a name for the mind blindness I was experiencing: ...

But there are some people who simply cannot form such mental images. They have a condition known as aphantasia, or “mind blindness”—it’s rare, and only affects about 4 percent of the ...

For most of us that's a natural and easy thing to do. But if you have aphantasia you'd find that very difficult, probably even impossible. The condition didn’t even have a name until 2015 ...