u/Stranded_on

Please tell me if I have aphantasia because my friend and I have been arguing for an hour.

The apple test to me doesn’t really make sense, because while I wouldn’t say I can ‘see’ an apple, i can certainly imagine it. The best way I could describe it to my friend is that I’m perceiving the image without seeing it, meaning I’m not recreating the sensory experience but I am perceiving it. So I can perceive the apple but my brain skips the stage of recreating the sensory experience.

Anyway, keen to hear what people think about that. I think our argument is a semantic one and we just understand ‘seeing’ differently, but she insists she can vividly see an apple and that doesn’t resonate with me.