All themes
Every sub-theme report, one page each, built from the lived-experience corpus.
Lost imagery after illness / trauma / depression
Careers I chose / avoided
STEM and abstract thinking
Inner ear / inner voice (anauralia / anendophasia)
SDAM and autobiographical memory
Synesthesia overlap
Aphantasic artists / illustrators
Writers with aphantasia
The "I thought everyone..." moment
Discovered through a viral post / Buzzfeed / John Green
Telling family / partner / friends
No dreams at all
Do aphantasics dream in pictures?
Childhood / school experiences
Image Streaming and similar training
Meditation, hypnosis, visualisation practice
Psychedelics anecdotes
Autobiographical memory
Face recognition / prosopagnosia overlap
Memory of loved ones
How aphantasics navigate
Pure blackness / blank mind's eye
Thinking in concepts / words / knowing
Voluntary vs involuntary imagery
Protective effect against intrusive images
Skipping or struggling with descriptive prose
What reading novels feels like
Emotional response and aphantasia
Hyperphantasic partner / family
Pearson / UNSW research
Zeman / Exeter research
The apple test
VVIQ scoring and interpretation