As someone with full auditory and visual Aphantasia. This is extremely fucked up and ableist. (I am honestly only half joking this is very ableist either way)
I can’t rotate cows in my head. I can’t even hear cows in my head.
100% of theoretical physicists would agree that cows are spheres. You could do mental math in which you calculate changes to the cardinality of the distributed mass.
I’m curious about that part. Does that mean you also don’t get that weird thing where you hear like, people chattering/ music/ something falling down just before you fall asleep? Or are dreams/half-asleep hallucinations not affected by aphantasia?
Probably Hypnogogic hallucination, which is a normal and common transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep characterized by vivid hallucinations incorporating any or all senses.
Never had this. I either fall asleep and wake up later. Or I’m getting half-awake dreams before I fall asleep, where I’m not I’m still a bit in control at first, but then lose control. (I know I’m dreaming, I just can’t steer it)
I can remember these half-dreams, but not the real dreams later
Or is it that auditory hallucinations are strongly associated (not clinically, just the way they are always talked about) with bad mental health problems like schizophrenia, which makes them taboo, so people choose not to talk about them, even to doctors?
I get auditory, gustatory, and olfactory hallucinations all the time, due to chronic headache and migraines. Wish I got visual ones too, just for the variety, but alas. I hate peanut butter so so much (my most common hallucination is the smell or taste of peanut butter). My auditory hallucinations aren’t usually voices talking, though, they tend to be cats meowing or chickens yelling, because that’s what I hear most frequently in my daily life, so that’s what I’m trained to listen for.
… I think so? Never questioned it honestly, guess I’ll have to do some research now haha
edit: this website says they’re fiiiiine, although the auditory ones are rarer than visual and somatic ones. Somewhat related to Narcolepsy though, so I guess that’s another thing to mention when I get evaluated for that haha (getting on adhd meds somewhat fixed my daytime eepyness so I’ve been procrastinating on getting it checked out)
I discovered it when I was…23? My whole life I figured people were saying “picture this…” figuratively and it didn’t even occur to me that it could be otherwise because it was self-evidently impossible to me to “see” something until I learned the word “aphantasia” and that the inability to visualize is not considered the norm/not universal.
It takes actually knowing that people actually see images to know that you cannot do that.
Counting sheep never made true sense to me. How is keeping a tally of “imaginary” sheep jumping over an “imaginary” fence supposed to help me fall asleep?
Makes sense when you realize people do it to stop their brains from randomly sending themselves other imaginary that’s going to keep them up. It’s like choosing to turn on the TV to something you could fall asleep to is my understanding.
As someone with full auditory and visual Aphantasia. This is extremely fucked up and ableist. (I am honestly only half joking this is very ableist either way)
I can’t rotate cows in my head. I can’t even hear cows in my head.
The cops still can’t stop be tho.
100% of theoretical physicists would agree that cows are spheres. You could do mental math in which you calculate changes to the cardinality of the distributed mass.
It should look something like this: 0⁰
Fuck, it’s the police!
Sounds like you will need to rotate a real cow while in international waters.
Lol if they had said that you can count your fingers then we’d have someone in here without arms saying how ableist the tweet was
How dare you, some people are mute and can’t say! /j
Hard to write without fingers too. Doable but harder, very abelist again!!
Some people are in a coma. Just don’t do anything!
Everyone must cut out their own tongues and chop off their hands and feet, for inclusivity!
I’m able to do it if I’m half asleep. Problem is i get so excited at my ability to create anything I want in amazing detail that I wake back up
I can hear cows in my head, but seriously it’s not that great. All they say all day long is, “kill them. Kill them all.”
It’s kind of monotonous.
I’m curious about that part. Does that mean you also don’t get that weird thing where you hear like, people chattering/ music/ something falling down just before you fall asleep? Or are dreams/half-asleep hallucinations not affected by aphantasia?
Apparently dreams aren’t necessarily affected by aphantasia.
I feel like when I do have dreams they are extremely vivid and real because I am seeing my thoughts which isn’t normal.
What the hell are you on about??
Probably Hypnogogic hallucination, which is a normal and common transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep characterized by vivid hallucinations incorporating any or all senses.
I have this too. Music, people, simulated falling, stuff like that right before I fall asleep. I always thought this was common?
Yea if you’re possessed by a demon maybe /jk
Never had this. I either fall asleep and wake up later. Or I’m getting half-awake dreams before I fall asleep, where I’m not I’m still a bit in control at first, but then lose control. (I know I’m dreaming, I just can’t steer it)
I can remember these half-dreams, but not the real dreams later
Never experienced it and never heard anyone else mention it before.
Exploding Head Syndrome maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
Mayhaps
Auditory hallucinations aren’t as common as you seem to think haha. I have them too sometimes.
The only thing I’d classify as that is “feeling” like I hear far-away inaudible voices.
Or is it that auditory hallucinations are strongly associated (not clinically, just the way they are always talked about) with bad mental health problems like schizophrenia, which makes them taboo, so people choose not to talk about them, even to doctors?
I get auditory, gustatory, and olfactory hallucinations all the time, due to chronic headache and migraines. Wish I got visual ones too, just for the variety, but alas. I hate peanut butter so so much (my most common hallucination is the smell or taste of peanut butter). My auditory hallucinations aren’t usually voices talking, though, they tend to be cats meowing or chickens yelling, because that’s what I hear most frequently in my daily life, so that’s what I’m trained to listen for.
Wait, what? Is that something people experience?
… I think so? Never questioned it honestly, guess I’ll have to do some research now haha
edit: this website says they’re fiiiiine, although the auditory ones are rarer than visual and somatic ones. Somewhat related to Narcolepsy though, so I guess that’s another thing to mention when I get evaluated for that haha (getting on adhd meds somewhat fixed my daytime eepyness so I’ve been procrastinating on getting it checked out)
I would like to know more
How/when did you discover this?
Not OP but also have aphantasia.
I discovered it when I was…23? My whole life I figured people were saying “picture this…” figuratively and it didn’t even occur to me that it could be otherwise because it was self-evidently impossible to me to “see” something until I learned the word “aphantasia” and that the inability to visualize is not considered the norm/not universal.
Yeah took me 36 years.
It takes actually knowing that people actually see images to know that you cannot do that.
Counting sheep never made true sense to me. How is keeping a tally of “imaginary” sheep jumping over an “imaginary” fence supposed to help me fall asleep?
Makes sense when you realize people do it to stop their brains from randomly sending themselves other imaginary that’s going to keep them up. It’s like choosing to turn on the TV to something you could fall asleep to is my understanding.
Yeah, with that one in particular I thhough everybody was just beating a dead horse with the same joke on “counting sleep.”
Is this ableist? Doesn’t seem prejudicial at all. /g
No, it isn’t.