stories without the visuals
What is Aphantasia?
Aphantasia is a cognitive experience in which the brain doesn’t form voluntary mental images. An estimated 1-3% of us have this, but there’s a spectrum of visualising abilities. Research on aphantasia has been developing fast since the term was coined in 2015, so there’s always something new to help us better understand and improve our reading experience.
I have aphantasia myself, and this is where I explore what that means, alongside a growing community of others who are figuring it out too.
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Coming soon: Book Finder
A space where readers can discover books based on criteria that actually matter to aphantasic readers: how visual the language is, whether a story is character or plot driven, how description-heavy the prose is, the perspective it’s written in, and more. Every aphantasic reader is different, so rather than one single ranking, you’ll be able to filter and browse by whatever matters most to you.