What I Learned When I Finally Understood My Brain: Living With Aphantasia
In this episode of the Carmen Talk: Know Thyself series, I share something I’ve never talked about publicly: I have aphantasia — a cognitive variation where the mind doesn’t create visual images. I discovered this in 2016, and it completely changed how I understand myself, my learning style, my memory, and the way I move through the world.
I get into what aphantasia actually is, how it shows up in everyday life, why meditation and visualization never worked for me, and how understanding this difference helped me stop blaming myself for things I simply process differently. I also walk through…
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