Aphantasia ???? never knew I had it

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I can also smell things as I visualise.
Couldn't draw or paint to save my life!

For a long time I couldn't remember, or visualise, what my children looked like when they were very young. I could only bring photographs to mind. I can remember now, thank goodness.

Well there you go. I couldn't visualise anything. I can remember perfectly well what my sister looks like, but as for visualising her clothes and walk, nothing at all. I know I dream in colour, and remember very clearly the last dream I had about my late mother. As for trying to conjure up a picture in my minds eye, well that is just a blank black space when I close my eyes. Like pompa I am all amazement. I never knew I lacked this capacity. How strange.
It doesn't bother me at all!

PS. Like pompa I scored 8.

I would have thought smells were to do with memory.

Hilda, I could hug you, need a fellow aphantasiac that understands me.

Aphantasia?
Sounds like a morbid and unreasoning fear of Walt Disney

40/40
I can see/hear/smell the sea without closing my eyes!
I quite often 'visit' other places in my minds eye and can't imagine what it's like not being able to do so. So sorry for those of you who have aphantasia

I have just scored 37, I found I could visualise quite a lot without even thinking about it, I find that quite strange, I don't know why. I do know that several years ago we had a small factory adjoining an auction house, and they would leave their unwanted furniture alongside our factory, and one night someone decided to set light to it. On being asked if I had noticed anyone suspicious hanging around over the past few days, I described a man - and was later told by the police, that it was an exact description of one of the plain clothes officers who was having a look, but that of course is memory, not visualisation. (he was not the guilty one)

For those with Aphantasia there is a new web site especially for you -- aphant.asia/index.php

BTW , no need to feel sorry for us, it is not a problem for us.

This really confuses me. I've done the test twice, 31 first time, 29 second. The second time I answered as though I could visualise better, but it rated me lower.
I think I can only visualise if I've got a similar memory to base it on.

I got a high score. I can easily visualise many things. If I think of certain occasions I can close my eye and 'see' it all happening. When I feel stressed or cannot sleep I can conjour up a picture of one of my favourite places and put my self there, often hearing the sounds and scents too. I 've never thought that maybe this was something some people cannot do.