24-08-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com

Experience: I can't picture things in my mind

I have a condition called aphantasia where I can’t visualise things. When I try to picture my daughter when she’s not there, I see nothingI was seven when, in hindsight, I first questioned my imagination. I remember watching the first Harry Potter film and my friend, who was a huge fan, was complaining that the characters weren’t how she imagined them to be. I couldn’t understand what she meant because, in my mind, they had never been images at all, just concepts. When I
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