Discovering Your Mind - Aphantasia and Beyond

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Michael Nielsen's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Michael's mind is kind of all over the place.  He explains how there really isn't a ton of images in his head and often times it's just a thought that slowly transforms into a low detailed image. His imagination is mainly memory based and his memori...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Part 2 of Discovering the Mind of Garrett Sudweeks. In this episode, Garrett talks about how he dislikes books with too much description, and how he struggled in school until he learned how to create his own homework that was better designed for his brain. He has a fascinating description of how his mind stores information. Oh, and could you successfully drive a car wit...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Garrett Sudweeks' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. We have another guest with hyperphantasia who has some interesting details to share. Garrett talks about how he visualizes many different options at the same time, hears many different voices in his head, has a "nothing box", and mixes up real and imagin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Johanne Nedergård explains her involvement in research surrounding inner speech and more specifically, the lack thereof. She, and her team, have given the phenomenon of not having an inner voice, the name Anendophasia.  We talk about the study entitled "Not Everyone Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia". We discuss how they found p...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Kary Jensen's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Kary leads us into some new and interesting discussions including premature closure, tasting food that is on tv, dyslexia, and visualizing true crime. Support the show Here is a link to the apple graph, the nature picture, and the carnival picture. https://www.shanesb...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to part 2 of discovering the mind of Laurel Smith-Williams. In this episode, we discover that Laurel has a hard time imagining unique faces, has worse vision than normal in her dreams, feels less rested the more sleep she gets, and can delete unpleasant things from her mind.  Support the show Here is a link to the apple graph, the nature picture, and the carnival picture....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Laurel Smith-Williams' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Laurel is hyperphantastic and her mind is quite amazing in many different ways. We discuss how her imagination space and memory space are two different spaces in her mind and how accurate her memories are. She also has a cool description of how experiencing m...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we interview married couple, Haley and Isaiah, who both have aphantasia. Well, technically, Haley is hypophantastic, but she is very aphantastic in most regards. We discuss several interesting topics including putting the mind on autopilot and what it's like to experience the psychedelic effects of Psilocybin as a person with Aphantasia. Support the show Here...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is hosted by special guest-host Cole Williams. Cole is studying for BA of Science-Psychology. He leads us in an interesting and important discussion about the research that is being done in connection to aphantasia, visualization, and psychological disorders. We discuss possible links, solutions, theories, and much more regarding mental imagery, or the lack thereof, t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I share and comment on questions and discussions from past guests about how my mind works. Many of my guests are curious about aphantasia and so they ask me questions, trying to better understand what I am experiencing. Here are some of those conversations, resulting in me struggling to explain my brain.  Support the show Here is a link to the apple graph, the nat...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Matthew Bockholt's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Matthew is the most hyperphantasia person that I have interviewed so far. His descriptions and insights are intriguing for sure. He is also an author and he discusses the very real relationships that he has with his characters. He describes his imagination as a s...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Michelle Jefferies' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. We start out identifying Michelle as aphantasia but as we move along its definitely more along the lines of hypophantasia. It's interesting that Michelle developed this low visualization, at least in part, later in life, because of childhood trauma. Michell...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Alexander Vercoutre's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Join us as we try to determine exactly what is happening in Alex's mind. Does he have aphantasia or not? I'm not 100% sure but I am 100% sure that this is indeed a fascinating interview. The language and words we have are not adequate here but I do f...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Alex Williams' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. It's really fun to hear Alex's answers because although she scores very high in all of the senses in her mind, they seem to have mind of their own in many instances. It's also interesting that her memories are not as strong as some of her other experie...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Carl Demille's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Carl is an interesting case as his visualization seems to be a bit difficult to predict. He starts out with some very detailed descriptions and we begin to label him hyperphantasia... but then later on, his descriptions about what he visualizes when he reads is much...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Shane Miner's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Shane is our second guest with aphantasia. The differences are on full display again as we identify how technical and left brained Shane's mind is and we also find out if Shane would wish away his aphantasia if he had the chance. And guess what else? Shane doesn&...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode with special guests, Cole Williams, and Stacey Williams, we delve a little deeper into the world of Hyperphantasia by exploring some new questions that bring out some new interesting details we haven't discussed before. Hyperphantasia is just as fascinating and under explored as Aphantasia is, so we continue to seek for as much detail and variations of experie...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Stacey Williams' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Stacey's mind is very versatile and can do most anything you ask it to... which is pretty cool. We discuss what a brain fart is and how her visualization is always "on" and a couple tricks she uses to deal with that. We also argue several times about...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Cole Williams's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Cole can visualize alright, but he is off the charts when it comes to the sense of touch and feeling in his mind. This goes hand in hand with how he experiences emotions at a heightened level in his mind as well. Cole has a history of mental health issues including...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Tony Ort's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Tony is our first guest with aphantasia. Although we both have aphantasia and can relate to each other on many things, we also discover significant differences. If you have aphantasia, and had a chance to wish it away, would you do it? Tony also describes his experiences...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Robbie Joosten's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Robbie has a lot of fun and unique situations and experiences to share about his mind. But, the real question is, if you saw a toilet in the middle of the sidewalk on a busy street, would you use it? Youphantasia feature guest - Teresa Nielsen Support the show Here...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Donna Jensen's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Donna is our first person with hypophantasia on the podcast. Hypophantasia is what I call "almost aphantasia". But Donna also has a very intriguing exception to the rule because of trauma. Youphantasia feature guest - Kelton Williams Support the show Here i...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode with special guest, Sarah Pett, we discuss how imagination can greatly affect childhood, and how visualization, or the lack thereof, influences every aspect of our lives. We get a glimpse of how simple words and phrases can mean totally different things to different people as Sarah explains what "going to her happy place" means to her.  She also brilliant...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Sarah Pett's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Sarah's mind is really amazing and she has the best description of counting sheep I've ever heard! Check out Sarah's home staging business here: https://www.instagram.com/sp.upstaginghomes?igsh=Y2N5a2RpNDFkZXo3&utm_source=qr Youphantasia feature gues...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discover how Justin Turcsanski's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Do you have a shoe box full of memories? Join us as I introduce Justin to the fact that some people cannot visualize.  Youphantasia feature guest - Stacey Williams Support the show Here is a link to the apple graph, the nature picture, and the carnival picture....