🍎 Elephantasia (aphantasia) - can you see an apple in your mind?
About this episode
This episode explores the concept of aphantasia and how it affects creativity and imagination.
This week we roll headfirst into the interestin' world of aphantasia. It all started with conversations inside Find Your Creative Voice and The Picture Book Course - when Good Shippers were telling us, “I can’t see ANYTHING in my head.” Which sent us down a rabbit hole of aphantasia, imagination. And does everyone experience it the same way? Nope. In this episode, we chat about: What aphantasia isThe “apple test” 🍎Emotional memory vs visual memoryWhy some creatives need reference and others w...
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