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Old Mar 09, 2025, 01:54 PM
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I got interested in this after listening to a podcast about aphantasia. Some creative people have it, but more often, aphantasia folk tend to congregate in sciences where rationality is a prized quality. We have too small of a sample here, but I wonder... Bipolar correlates with creativity, as does hyperohantasia, and maybe that is why we have people here who score high on the spectrum.

The biologist who talked on the podcast also said that hallucinations that are part of psychotic disorders and Parkinson's might be described as hyper hyper hyperohantasia.
I listened to a podcast on aphantasia too (maybe the same one? Mine was on Stuff You Should Know). They said a lot of graphic designers have aphantasia which might actually be an asset because you can just draw stuff and work it out instead of going on the preconceived notion of what you visualize in your head.
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