I began to consider this as my mouth filled with the flavor of pineapple and I remembered the flavor of a pineapple.
Do other senses suffer from the same issue?
See also: lemmy.world/post/22889326
Does Aphantasia exist for senses other than vision?
Submitted 2 days ago by SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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BlueSerendipity8@programming.dev 14 hours ago
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Technically: no, because aphantasia specifically relates to visualization.
But there are other, similar issues with other names.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Would you happen to know the names or be willing to share? I guess I didn’t know what to look for.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It might not be called aphantasia since it isn’t for sight, but yeah it exists, I have it for taste and smell.
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yes I’m blind across all internal senses.
bstix@feddit.dk 2 days ago
There’s amusia, which is “tone-deafness”.
It’s one thing to not sing in tune or not remember a melody correctly, but there are people who can not even hear a difference between two melodies, even if they can tell other sounds apart. I would guess that’s somewhat similar, because I doubt these people have any chance in imagining what a melody sounds like.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 days ago
Just last week I was looking up ADHD and autism in blind people, but I was also questioning whether blind people could have aphantasia. Or rather, how does blind people perceive roundness or a circle in their mind? They know what it feels like at least, so is it tied to some other sense? I’m guessing blind people have a way of mapping out surroundings and 3D space, but explaining how a person thinks about it is as hard to describe as whether two people perceive the same colours the same way.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Who was the lady that was deaf and blind, and famously overcame those? I can’t think of her name. Her first word was water.
I once read an interview with her and she said that before she learned language she basically didn’t have any mental images or thoughts. Her mind was just rare emotion and mostly anger.
Once she picked up language she was able to think things through, and understand where she was in the world. I always found that fascinating, and your comment reminded me of it.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 days ago
Who was the lady that was deaf and blind, and famously overcame those?
Might be Helen Keller, very famous deafblind activist. A quote from wikipedia kind of shows how hard communicating when senses are limited:
The next month, Keller made a breakthrough, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of “water”. Writing in her autobiography, The Story of My Life, Keller recalled the moment:
I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten—a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, set it free!
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
People with aphantasia have improved spatial memory that tries to compensate for episodic memory.
So the first thing that I feel when I try to remember something is my position in the room, or where the person speaking to me was standing.
Same thing if I try and ‘see’ a circle. I’ll just feel the dimensions. Hard to describe but it’s almost like pressure in my frontal cortex. A circle feels like coming down from the left and right in a circular pattern, whereas a tree feels like the pressure is at the bottom pushing up.
nesc@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Interesting, it might be just different or depend on what sense is more dominant. I can feel imaginary smells, but never felt imaginary taste.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Imaginary Taste, don’t have it. Imaginary smells, also don’t have it. Imaginary voices? – Might wanna see a doctor about that…
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Olfactory aphantasia is the inability to imagine smells Phantosmia is detecting smells that aren’t there
Similarly there’s gustatory aphantasia for taste and phantom taste perception
Etc
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Fuck yes, the real answer. Thank you, @ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Immediately surfaced results.
TomAwsm@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We probably don’t have a c/rimjobsteve yet, but would this qualify?
halfapage@lemmy.world 2 days ago
marron12@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s not exactly the same for me, but it’s pretty close. Sometimes it’s a little more faded. Just depends on what it is. Sound, on the other hand, I can picture that loud and clear.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
A phantom taste perception is actually a lingering bad taste in your mouth and actually caused by multiple things like schizophrenia, diabetes, bad dental hygiene, head injuries, certain cancers, medications, etc