I do this too. Then it's annoying when I have to read something out loud because people think I can't read correctly

Lol just this lady walking down the street with an army of cats marching behind her with little helmets

I can do both at once :D

I can’t lucid dream. I tried to do it but the whole world shattered around me and I woke up

Now I'm trying to bounce a red ball in my mind with my eyes open and it's kind of trippy to simultaneously do that, look at reality, and try to think of where the image of the bouncing ball actually is.

I’m not sure that I have hyperphantasia and it’s not diagnosed or anything, so take it with a grain of salt. But at least 20% of my brain is always off in Fantasyland imagining stuff from my favorite shows/books/movies/etc. Helpful for entertainment, but it doesn’t outright cure boredom

I can only picture things in my mind for a second or two. I've never had a good imagination. I was shocked when I found out some people have no inner voice. My inner voice is always going. I don't understand how someone with no inner voice can solve complex problems.

It's so hard to imagine not being able to picture things in my mind.

I have aphantasia too, only recently discovered this at the age of 43 (also diagnosed with ADHD). I didn't realise it was a thing and was really upset to learn that most people can see things when all I see is black

I can’t read a novel unless I have all the character casting done and the opening setting established. When reading series novels it’s always the same homes, same layout, same cars, everything is exactly like it would be in real life. If they move to new surroundings I have to do the new surrounds, homes etc in my head before I can move on. It really messes with my head when they do a movie of a book I’ve already read. They did a movie from the Johnathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware series. They cast Ted Danson. Nope Nope. Tom Selleck. Milo had to be Richard Mazur. I could not watch the movie. It was all wrong.

When I talk or am listening to other people, I can see the words go across my brain like a ticker tape.

I'm an architect. When doing mundane non work-related tasks, I can visualize how to put together a floor plan, kinda matrix-like how things just flow and end up working out, then I get to work and draw up those visualizations :) My best work has always started with random visualizations - I see it before I create it. (I think my brain needs to shut off other input/stimulation and relax into creative mode)

I cant form pictures in my mind but I know what it looks like. Like I can imagine it but it's not really a picture it's more of like an idea of what I'm looking at. I thought that was normal-

Same, JoeBoco7 same.

Omg. I do the same thing where I watch new episodes or continuations of my favorite shows, movies and books. Do I have hyperphantsia now?!

I also have aphantasia and I was so confused when I found out that people can actually picture things and that it’s not just a figure of speech, I’m still confused lol

I also have aphantasia! Not complete tho, I can picture a square, a triangle, and a circle but only one at once.

I have Synesthesia AND ADHD..There is a constant stream of floating ,bright coloured names,numbers,word and numbers,Bright ,flashing sounds,soft rolling ,coloured smells.Then add in the seeing music(of which at least songs are playing in my head at any one time),over thinking constantly and "running" scenarios in my head.I do not have a quiet or dark second in my life ever. :/

I have aphantasia. Never seen a picture in my mind. And I was in my 40s before I found out that people actually can do that.

Ive never been able to do this either. Not sure if its in some way linked to my synaesthesia. Certain smells or sounds trigger certain colurs or shapes to appear. Made maths easier at school, if i read the sum out loud, i could see the shape of each part of the problem, then i said what i thought was the answer. If the little shapes fit the big shape perfectly, that was the answer. (Couldnt use that in my exans though, had to be silent or tou got thrown out).

I compose music in my mind. I can hear the melodies, harmonies and rhythms. I often wake in the middle of the night with a song in my head and have to go and build a song from it on my keyboards.

Same. I can literally look at someone, close my eyes, and cannot draw up a picture of them in my mind. If someone gives me something to imagine, it's a complete blank.

So if you go to a psychotherapist & they try to teach you guided imagery, they are SOL.

I don't really see things, but it's in my head. Just like I hear songs in my head, but have a hard time singing or playing the tune in real life.

im the opposite

Driving through an unfamiliar city, I can drive all the way back, as if I looked in the mirror since I entered the city. In my head life is captured in pictures and video snippets.

I'm 100% with JoeBoco7 in this one!

I can only imagine something for 1/2 a second

I can picture things easier with my eyes open for some reason

i think i have incomplete aphantasia, but in a different way. I practically picture a description in my head. i think it is because i have spent about a third of my life reading books.

I can remember, but I can't picture memories. Can't really make imagination scenes, idk, I feel like my brain doesn't even want to try because it's not real.

i can only visualize things with my eyes open i thought that was normal???

I don't have to close my eyes, it's just kinda there. Visuals and hearing are incredibly realistic (and I can animate them, too) but I can't do sound and touch

I have visual aphantasia and auditory hyperphantasia - I can imagine any sort of sound or music in my head with a lot of detail, but I can't visualize anything at all. It's like my internal world is that of a blind person.

Imagining things in my head is either like a novel or a picture book. Sometimes a flip book, where the pictures flip fast enough that I don't notice it until I do. It may have to do with reading A LOT as a child, but I have a hard time thinking in motion.

Well, imagining is not exactly like seeing things, but ... close to ... kind of ...

This is so cool

Good to hear!

this happens every day for me, is this not due to body clock?

I have selective sensitive hearing. Like I don't notice normal house noises. Anomalies, if something is off, fridge compressor constantly running, daughter's car making a noise, I'm on it.