Every Rare Cognitive Disorder in 15 Minutes

[@SophiaMincin]

My mom works at a psych unit. She actually had a patient who genuinely had cotard syndrome. She said she felt really bad because he was just a really nice guy in his 30’s but he genuinely thought he was dead.

[@HeliosPlayGames]

Cotard delusion and other types of nihilistic delusions are not that much rare. They are especially common in psychotic depression

[@SophiaMincin]

@ ok, way to kill the mood.

[@LinkaBellGAME]

@@HeliosPlayGames It's pretty rare only about 200 known cases world wide. In comparison to our entire population it's very rare. Though granted this number can change in the future.

[@LinkaBellGAME]

How long had she worked there and known him for? It's fascinating as I hadn't heard of that one, do they have to que him to eat to make sure he doesn't accidentally well starve himself? Apologies if this at all sounds insensitive just curious as learning these conditions is really fascinating to me.

[@SophiaMincin]

@@LinkaBellGAME Let me try asking her this although I just know that she has been working in the unit for years. She said that the guy also believe that he hurt his parents as well and He was able to fully understand what my mom was saying no and she asked if he knows why he was thinking that he was dead and hurt his parents but she said that he just politely said “I don’t know, I just think I am dead and I did hurt my parents.” She felt bad because he seemed to be very sweet and calm and most importantly completely harmless

[@brianbethea3069]

As someone with prosopagnosia, you wouldn't _really_ not recognize your family upon waking up in the morning. You just don't use faces. I know that my family is going to be in my house, I know what my parents' hair looks like, what kinds of clothes they wear, etc... Now, if everybody in my family gained 300 pounds, dyed and cut their hair, wore entirely new outfits outside of the style they usually wear, and put on fake accents with silly voices, and came walking up to me somewhere other than the house we live in, I would probably not recognize them. On the other hand, I was talking to a guy I had just met the other day when I had to run to the restroom. When I came out, I couldn't find him anywhere for the life of me. Then I saw a person with a jacket sitting on the back of their chair that was identical to the jacket the guy had been wearing, so I just had to figure it was the same guy, and it was. But I had been looking at his face for a solid 5 minutes in the conversation that we were having, and I didn't recognize him without his jacket on. Last month, at work, a woman came walking outside to where I was and said hi to me. Being polite, I said hi back, but I didn't recognize her so that was it and I went on my way, only to realize a few minutes later that she was wearing the same clothes as the woman in the library I always stop and talk to for a few minutes on my route every day. Whoops! I had to explain to her the next time I saw her that I'm face blind and I didn't recognize her because she wasn't sitting behind the desk that she's usually sitting behind.

[@rainbowblossom143]

I’ve literally walked right passed my mom in a grocery store because she was wearing a different colored outfit than I thought she was

[@INVALIDZEROTheTitSucker69]

You guys should be studied by everyone. 😮 And I didn't know people who can't see faces can be pedophiles. 🤔 Random reply just because I wanted to leave a comment on this. The first time I heard of this brain issue was on an Anime and since then, I always wanted to understand how that's possible and thought that this brain issue should have been uncommon enough for me to n3ver see anyone online saying that they have this brain issue. Are the faces somehow blurry like in horror movi3s? Or just can't remember faces, like it physically hurts to remember? Is it like forgetting names? Are all faces unattractive? Can you draw faces? Do faces repel your eyes and thoughts? Like being turned on by something and randomly seeing a naked 90 year old grandmother? 🤔 Does this negatively affect connections? Are you less scared of people? Would you randomly treat your children like strangers? Can you imagine remembering people by faces? I am So confused by this and I rather ask a person with this "brain issue" than search on Reddit and Quora for old 3xperiences of old people. I never imagined this could be w real thing when I watched this brain thing on an Anime several years ago.

[@diobbrando]

DAMN this is so bizarre! So you fall in love based on the behavior and not the genotype right? I find this very sweet

[@whitefeather60]

Me too! I've frequently not recognised family because they were in a place i didn't know they'd be at beforehand ..i try to use height,skin color, distinct bodily features, style,voice,walk,body language, etc to identify people

[@ghostpelt]

Same here. I literally remember memorizing who my classmates were in kindergarten based on the color of their shirts...unfortunately, the next day I had to start over again. I also spent a whole morning with a coworker, who I happened to meet later that same day and I could not recognize him at all. He thought I was joking and I had to explain to him that i was not joking, I simply couldn't recognize him. Btw, it took me 20 years to learn people actually recognize each other from their faces and not from...clothes and voices and similar 😅😂

[@juxtapositionark9671]

My professor has prosopagnosia, so I made sure to wear my glasses to class and sit in the same seat for her class, since that’s how she remembers me when we met for the first time. I saw how distressed it made her to be misunderstood and invalidated by people who couldn’t understand her condition. Thanks for reading my thesis Dr. B!

[@wrongplanet1717]

i don't have prosopagnosia specifically but i have prosopamnesia which is similar (i can kind of recognize faces but i have a lot of trouble remembering them unless they're VERY unique or i see them all the time and any changes to hairstyle or something will throw me off completely until i re-learn the face) and i think you are an amazing person. i just know you made your professor so happy

[@bobbymcstunts]

⁠​⁠@@wrongplanet1717I have prosopamnesia as well… the worst is running into people out of context… like a coworker or friend at a grocery store. Screwed without the context clues. I also chose a terrible career path for it 😂 I work as a stuntman. Which very much requires diligent networking… however more than half the time I see friends and coworkers they are in wigs and wardrobe and I rarely have any clue who they are.

[@wrongplanet1717]

@@bobbymcstunts a stuntman with prosopamnesia!!! you sound like the coolest comic book character ever!!!

[@alisaishere]

There was a professor at my college with prosopagnosia and she ended up writing a beautiful memoir about dealing with it.

[@jayfredrickson8632]

This describes me pretty well too. I'm on the autism spectrum as well, I always assumed they're related.​@@wrongplanet1717

[@jasminev5103]

i have aphantasia. the ONLY time my brain can create visuals is when i am dreaming. but when i wake up, yes i can remember what happened but the memory has no visuals

[@sniperforyou1392]

So are you able to draw pictures of things from memory?

[@planetxtraa]

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE OMG

[@planetxtraa]

@@sniperforyou1392 well yeah its kinda easy everyone knows what xyz looks like . even if you cant mentally SEE it. really hard to explain

[@JaxonHagemaster]

I literally don't understand how people can create pictures in their mind. I know they can and understand that their doing it, but I just simply can't

[@DanielKevin-lg2fb]

I can't only imagine things when my eyes are open.

[@splitbrainlife]

Face blindness i.e. prosopagnosia is not an all or nothing thing as described in this video. It's not utterly impossible for most face blind people to recognize a face. But it's much much harder. And most people have spent their whole lives adapting to it and don't even know that they have face blindness they just use other ways to recognize people by hair smell voice or other features. Its not as simple as "everyone is a stranger."

[@wander_boi]

You could say the same with aphantasia but in the end the underlying condition still stays, just cause you found other ways of processing the information doesn't mean you don't have the condition, what you're entailing feels more like conditioning, pick something that you can process, while in the end analyzing faces will never work how it's "supposed" to

[@evmarekaj]

​@@wander_boi except not really. The video explains it terribly. To piggy off the aphantasia, I personally do have aphantasia. But I can still dream vividly, and there are many others with the same condition who simply can't imagine color, but can imagine shapes or vice versa. The problem here is that these conditions aren't as simple as the video explains. Which ruins the purpose of the video allowing people to understand one another. Also, learning you have a condition can be extremely useful. One of the difficulties I've had in life is understanding verbal city directions as I can't imagine the structures that the person is referring to, even if I understand what structures they are talking about. As such I can't judge distance off of memory as many friends and family have proven capable of. I didn't know this was a thing until I was 22 years old. Now, I know how to navigate those situations better and reduce unnecessary personal stress.

[@punkyskunky3131]

I think I might have a milder case I'm very bad at remembering faces Especially my own which is a very off-putting feeling Obviously I know how mirrors work so I know I'm looking at myself but there's always a level of feeling like I'm not I can't visualize anyone's face But if I see a picture of someone I know well I'll usually recognize who they are because I remember what their hair or glasses look like But I rarely recognize pictures of what people used to look like or if they change their appearance And I can't really describe or recreate someone's appearance despite being pretty good at drawing There just isn't really an image in my head to put on the paper Not even if I looked at their face seconds ago

[@demifolk8940]

@punkyskunky3131 i am fairly positive you have face blindness, i have met people who are “bad” at remembering names and faces but its not never so difficult for them that they have to do so many mental loops and jumps just to remember a person. i have adhd and have difficulty processing what people say sometimes, so i sort of understand that feeling of trying to use deduction and the info around me to figure out something. but, im very good at remembering faces. ill remember someones face years after we met, maybe not their name, but ill know exactly where we met.

[@pembrokelove]

My father had Korsakoff's syndrome. It's awful. He lost so many friends and family members because they presumed he was a habitual liar and not that he was sick. It looks like lying until you know what is going on. ETA: treatable though it may be, the requirement to remain abstinent from alcohol was a continuous challenge, so he never did get markedly better.

[@DurbleMcBurble]

Awesome. Is he single?

[@GeeGeeWillakers]

​@@DurbleMcBurble context clues dude, he probably passed.

[@Apostate1970]

It's not really treatable once it's gone far enough, but it is 100% preventable. It's the direct result of glucose starvation and vitamin B (thiamine) deficiency in the brain as a direct result of repeated extreme alcohol use without adequate nutrition.

[@baalrog887]

Surely it's got to be sustained alcohol abuse right? Not just, a rough couple of years? I don't really drink that much now but it explains a lot about how my memory functions... I also have dyspraxia and ADHD so that may not help...

[@GeeGeeWillakers]

@@baalrog887 yeah it's long term alcoholism

[@ゆううな]

I have total aphantasia. From what I remember, aphantasia is something youre born with and is typically on a spectrum of 1-10 (1 being able to imagine vividly, 10 being total aphantasia) Aphantasia doesnt affect dreaming, you can still see in your dreams. It is severely unresearched but I know there was someone who 'cured' their aphantasia.

[@bryanuriostegui8339]

Wow very interesting. Thx for sharing

[@Cheems856]

I don’t know if this means much but I can’t imagine anything like crazy, like I can imagine a mountain but not like something that makes no sense. Edit: the cured it by imagining the blobs in their mind’s eye into things

[@JustAKid.]

People with aphantasia can visualise something, we just don't know how

[@jeremya.9709]

I can barely see even in my dreams. It's all dark.

[@mikubear]

I can imagine stuff but it only stays for like a split second, does that mean I have aphantasia?

[@rmk.0024_]

I have Aphantasia and I’ve had my English teacher constantly get angry at me for not being able to “draw what the house looks like in my head” no matter how many times I tell him I physically can’t

[@cherryb893]

Maybe you might consider introducing your teacher to this video? My old psychology tutor had this condition. He couldn't picture things in his mind for toffee... but he used it to his advantage, especially in class.

[@rmk.0024_]

@ I’m moving schools and since I live in Australia, the school year just ended. I’ll never see him again so there’s not really a point, and I doubt he would’ve listened since he hated me.

[@Ivy_the_therain]

Fr like one time I asked a teacher if I could look up a reference to draw something and she was just like “can’t you just visualize it” she then yelled at me :p

[@cajampa]

​@@cherryb893I am so confused what does he couldn't picture things in his mind for "toffee" mean? What is toffee in this context?

[@piopio6266]

I'm curious, even if you can't see an image of the house in your head, wouldn't you have a conceptual idea of what the house is like?

[@R0S3inC0NCR33T]

I think my partner has apotemnophilia. They’ve talked about wanting to amputate their right arm, even though they’re right-handed and love to draw. It’s also sometimes called “body integrity dysphoria”, and they’ve talked to other people with the same issue. They’ve come up with a possible solution recently, getting their arm tattooed with ball joint lines to look like a prosthetic.

[@mrred9474]

I've got OCD and this is something I struggle with.. it sucks but is pretty interesting

[@AxelPoggers]

that's actually a pretty smart idea with the tattoos, i hope it works out for them

[@deathby_danish]

The explanation of aphantasia is very well! I have it, and the way you explained it is actually very similar for how I’ve always explained it )))

[@Niltenstein]

Aphantasia is a perfect example of how each human experience might be wildly different from one another, but we don‘t know, because we just assume everyone‘s experience is similar to our own. People with aphantasia, myself included, wouldn’t even think of it as possible to just create mental images! I just assumed everyone has complete darkness when closing their eyes. After finding out about my aphantasia, I just started asking everyone around me about it, because it‘s super fascinating how a thing as amazing as visual imagination comes so naturally to the vast majority of people, yet it‘s never questioned or talked about because everyone assumes that everyone else can/can’t do it too!

[@DyspotikOriginal]

The people who are missing their inner monolog fascinate me. I'm always babbling in my head it's hard to imagine some cant

[@anxiety]

As a person with total aphantasia i can confirm i can blow peoples mind with this information about their own reality.

[@anxiety]

@@DyspotikOriginalthey must be really good at meditating

[@andybassman99]

As I grow older it seems to me that almost all human conflict stems from our innate inability to understand other humans and to grasp the uniqueness of their lived experience. It is the root of all miscommunication and misunderstanding - our brains are frustratingly unique.

[@JonathonNarfhead]

Books must really be unfun

[@scipocelah6677]

As someone with aphantasia and only learned about it when my wife was shocked that I said I didn't picture the book I was reading in my head and I was like "but, yeah, no one can." I learned very abruptly that "picture it in your mind" was not just a figure of speech but something people could actually do.

[@wolfrainexxx]

I'm learning this right now.

[@Sinzari]

yeah it took me until i was 25 to realize that the "imagine you're on a beach" in drama class in middle school wasn't figurative

[@balorprice]

I was well into my 30s before this had a name. Yes, I have it, but the spatial part of my brain works fine, so imagining things feels like I am imagining anything in a pitch black room. Positives: I know when I am falling asleep because dreams are suddenly in colour. And it explains why I don't have any problem going to the loo in the middle of the night without falling over anything

[@xxxqwertxxx]

Can I ask, how do you experience memories? When I remember something, I see it in my minds eye, I also see sounds in my minds eye but that’s a different story I guess. So how is it for you when you experience a memory?

[@mmelo7832]

Same lol. I discovered it when I was watching a show and someone visualized a shape (a circle, maybe?) and I sat there trying to do it as well for half an hour until I realized it’s not a figure of speech and I just don’t have a mind’s eye

[@Ezel_142]

I've talked with one person who has Prosopagnosia, and they've said that they have often trouble recognising people's faces. Once they get used to someone's look, it's fine, but cosmetic changes can throw them off and cause confusion.

[@nanalover34-LispieBlazieVA]

I too can say I have this issue. It's not every face but certain ones are difficult if someone changes their look. Thank COVID for frying my brain to where I can barely recognize people's faces.

[@Bosacius.]

I have this problem. I can't recognise no one by their face, not even my own parents. One day I unexpectedly crossed my dad in the street and I didn't notice it was him until he talked to me

[@teaaddict3102]

Honestly. At first I thought I have prosopagnosia but after got checked with nurse and therapist. They concluded that it just my autism spectrum that I see too much details that reconized face is hard for me. Because if there are one thing different. I do not regonize them at all.

[@beetleyy9928]

Oh same when a family member of mine shaved his beard off I didn't recognise him at all and greeted him like a stranger

[@BWtchdSparrw]

I've always thought I had this disorder due to my big inability to recognize peoples faces. There had been says where I confused random people even for people I know because I cannot tell well, and at some point I even managed to scare off someone stalking me because I thought he was my brother. I waved hello and started to shout "hello, (his name)!!) and after a little bit of doing that he kind of turned around and went the other way. I was confused as to why he was walking away and it wasn't until I close to home I spotted my actual brother and asked him why he walked away... That was not him 😭

[@iamnotadynosaur]

I have Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome resulting from years of poor, low-thiamine diet. I take a thiamine supplement at a near-overdose level daily, and I don't drink, but what people don't know is that Wernicke-Korsakoff's can cause permanent damage, and a fair percentage of those afflicted never improve, even with treatment.

[@kaden-sd6vb]

Yknow, I'm suddenly finding myself concerned about my terrible memory and equally poor diet

[@thegaymer5560]

9:21 my grandmother has warners-Korsakoff syndrome. It’s heart breaking and frustrating. She has been an alcoholic since her teens. Has no intention of trying to quit. She has had 2 strokes and a fall where she didn’t know how to call us so she was stuck on the floor for 18 hours. Got her to the hospital she had a blood sugar reading of 21. Even after all her near death experiences and the alcohol induced dementia. She has forgotten most things but not that she loves alcohol. And we have given up trying to help her and just accepted the fact that she is going to drink herself to death. I realize this turned into a rant. Oh well 🤷‍♂️

[@lilagagarin]

I'm sorry for you 😢 It's really frustrating when you try to help someone, but the person doesn't care about themselves....

[@ArtzyZero]

Sometimes what you need is to air out your frustrations to strangers. We're completely disconnected from your situation so you don't need to worry about being judged. All this to say, no need to apologise for ranting. I can't imagine how difficult is it watching someone you know being stuck in a spiral of self destruction.

[@FredFansom]

You have my condolences🙏🏼

[@FredFansom]

​@@ArtzyZeroyou are right🫡

[@one-day-at-a-time4134]

Sorry to hear this dude.

[@RaphaPortoRP]

There's a Brazilian scientist/biologist who has prosopagnosia. Her name is Ana Bonassa and she is a nice person! Plus, she always explains things in the most didactic way possible. It worth to watch to her videos if you understand Brazilian Portuguese.

[@ajdemonheart3928]

I read a book where a girl gets kidnapped, and the only witness is someone who has prosopagnosia. No one believed him when he said he couldn’t describe the face at all. Until the end of the book, when you find out the only reason he can tell who everyone in town is, is by watching their body language and outer shape and the way they move. It’s called Bone Gap, great book.

[@ThePaisleyLady13]

Love that book and author! Highly recommend her younger series, York. It's a trilogy 🤓

[@lemonboi5833]

I have Aphantasia. I thought everyone saw just black when thinking about something. 😭

[@Cl0wnf1sh_0-0]

Same ;-;

[@DemitriMansekov]

sameee

[@aissa_diallo7630]

Same 😭😭

[@realEliotMerritt]

Same 😢

[@SomeonecalledSALly]

same but when I close my eyes and think when listening to music my mind can make full on flipping animations

[@Lee-kc4wv]

0:01 Aphantasia 1:23 Balint's syndrome 3:14 Cotard's Delusion 4:54 Prosopagnosia 6:23 Anton-Babinski Syndrome 7:35 Semantic Dementia 9:15 Korsakoff's syndrome 10:46 Akinetopsia 12:22 Apotemnophilia

[@clarity-y2g]

Thanks alot!

[@erionnetic1626]

Omg yes thank you

[@dougdimmadomeownerofthedim2918]

W

[@1xXFernXx1]

thank you

[@MyQuietLfe]

I don’t have cotards delusions but I convinced myself I was dead during a manic episode where I didn’t eat or sleep

[@kerys_n_c]

Had a family member who did the same. Hope you’re alright!

[@Chainsaw_gutz]

I do that too, I’m already convinced that I’m rotting but not really dead unless if I’m in an episode

[@FiSH-iSH]

oof, hope youre doin better now!

[@mar420.74]

I'm sorry:( I thought I was a disease, like literally, everything I touched turned bad, I didn't know I could relate to a stranger:)I hope you don't feel like that anytime soon

[@dogneedspills]

me too, i was literally crying for hours mourning my own death and wandering around my home, refusing to speak or interact with anyone i was living with because i assumed they were just something my dying brain was making up to comfort me. crazy.

[@Eli_IsNotHome]

There's a lot of confusion in this comments section about Aphantasia, so let me, a person with Aphantasia explain. Phantasia is a spectrum of internal visualization and there are four district levels of phantasia. Hyperphantasia, Phantasia, Hypophantasia, and Aphantasia. Hyperphantasia is defined as hyper realistic visualizations, Phantasia is the average visual imagination, Hypophantasia is a reduced ability to visualize, not completely there, but still visible to the imagination, and Aphantasia describes a complete and utter lack of visualization. If you can visualize anything at all while conscious, you do not have Aphantasia. Visualizations being blurry, distorted, ect, is an example of Hypophantasia. There is a very big difference between the two. As someone with Aphantasia I cannot visualize anything at all. Some people with Aphantasia, like myself can dream however. I personally dream in very distorted, black and white, static-like images. Phantasia is a spectrum. (I am not a professional. I am willing to accept criticism and admit when I am wrong. Let me know if I got anything wrong, or if you have any questions. Please do remember that there is not a lot of research on Phantasia, so I won't have an answer to everything, and of course I can only mainly speak from personal experience.)

[@herewego5679]

Thanks for explaining it. Now im certain I have aphantasia and not any of the other ones in the spectrum. Thats cuz when I try to visual its all black, nothing at all no matter how hard I try. However my dreams when I do get them are very vivid and detailed, something inside cant do consciously. Good to know

[@jasond.b-w]

Thank you. All these people saying they can “just see black” when they think are making me want to cry. WHERE is the black? How can you think a color? That’s literally an oxymoron. The only time I see black is when I’m staring at my own eyelids, sitting in the dark, or looking at something black. You use your eyes to see black…what else could there be? I can’t understand the concept of “thinking images” at all and until a couple years ago when I saw an explanation written out for the first time, I spent my whole life thinking people were describing hallucination and never questioned it once. The whole ‘seeing black’ that’s not right in front of you sounds like science fiction. The whole ‘making images’ thing does and I really do believe that people who claim they can ‘imagine black’ or ‘think their dead dog’ are lying. People claiming to have what I think I have and then claiming to think of ‘colors instead of images’ when they’re literally the exact same thing just frustrates me to tears. I want to understand where the images are seen so bad but I just can’t.

[@hellspawn3200]

I have hypophantasia, never knew it was not how everyone was.

[@gabrielhenson5751]

​@@jasond.b-wthe "just see black" thing is referring to just closing your eyes while trying to envision things. It's dark cause your eyes are closed.

[@NoblePineapples]

I have aphantasia, it is nothing but black when I close my eyes and try to visualize something as hard as I may try. However my dreams are often usually pretty vivid, granted I don't dream often (or at the very least I don't remember them) but when I do I am able to immediately recall in great detail what I dreamt and what happened in the dreams after waking up. The way I explain to others how I "visualize" things is more so thinking about concepts of things. Like if someone told me to picture a house with 4 blue windows I think about those things individually and just apply(Word I'm looking for?) those traits together. I can't see it but I can understand it being a thing as a whole.

[@lesapo5587]

I have work at a nursing home on dementia floor as an active person.. 7:35 happens often. In the beginning they’re all like “oh silly me! I forgot the proper use/word for this thing” but it slowly progresses to constantly having to ask for help (which we are always glad to help!!), Some feel themselves declining, get frustrated and blame themselves. It’s truly heart wrenching. I’ve had conversations where they just want to understand what’s happening to them.

[@Tormekia]

I've got face blindness. I have very good voice memory to compensate. I also recognize features, just not the whole. So I'll recognize someone because their right earlobe has a scar on it. Or they have a dimple. But the whole face? Nope. Can't imagine faces properly either. And pictures of myself look like someone who is similar to me but not me. I hate pictures of myself because it's like I'm looking at a doppelganger. Worst part is looking back at pictures of my little brother and my brain has forgotten that THAT picture is the same person as my brother as he's aged. Like the emotional connection has been moved over to the older him and disconnected from the baby pictures. My brain is like huh cute person. Like HEY BRAIN IT'S BRO. Brain like wut? My brain can't recognize changes and log them as belonging to the same person. Sighs. But I am creepy good at sound memory. So good I have to hide how good I am. I cam recognize people by their sniffles or how they walk without even seeing them.

[@bryanuriostegui8339]

Recognizing people by there walk style seems dope to me

[@f1zzbang]

@@bryanuriostegui8339you can’t? most people can

[@ophelia.perozzi]

How do you see faces? Can you see them but are unable to rege remember which face belongs to who or are you just unable to see the face. Like its blurred or something like that?

[@craftyheidi6688]

​@ophelia.perozzi Not the commenter but another person with face blindness symtoms. Prosopagnosia doesnt remove the ability to actually see faces. I used to think facial blindess meant people saw like a blank "airbrushed" face or it was blurred or something, this misinformation is what made me think I couldn't have it. What it actually is is an inability to recognise faces. Faces look the same to me visually. Its kind of like if everything you know about a person is put into a little folder in your brain. My brain sometimes forgets to pur someones face into their folder. So i might remember their gate, clothes, voice, height, but not their face. Hope that makes sense. Also worth mentioning its a spectrum. Im more mild so i usually only have issues with people I dont know very well

[@amberchristmas979]

@@f1zzbangwhat is your source on this? From personal experience I would assume most people do not!

[@GaaagoooGarf]

9:19 i knew he was saying bartender but my brain was like "WHY IS THERE A FREAKING BARBER IN A BAR GREETING PEOPLE?" 😭

[@jumblejym]

Eyyy I've got aphantasia! I used to think a "mental image" was metaphorical. Fun fact, it's possible to be mind-blind in one sense and have super detailed imagination in another- my mind's eye doesn't really work, but I can easily imagine sound in near lifelike detail.

[@jumblejym]

AND I have prosopagnosia! I have to memorize what people look like via their hair, a distinctive facial feature, etc. It's true that if someone changed their appearance, I suddenly can't recognize them at all! I also have mistaken people who look NOTHING alike for each other. It's *mortifying.* 😭

[@gabrielhenson5751]

Same with the sound. I can literally play music with full instruments in my mind.

[@jumblejym]

@@gabrielhenson5751 I can imagine entire orchestral pieces in my head! Replicating them is another matter entirely, oops

[@nicodemus1828384]

Vision is such a strong sense for us it's easy to forget about the rest of them! I bet you can imagine touch and taste and smell too

[@DaPixleBoi]

Same but for me I can visualize feeling very well

[@elizabethrose6943]

My friend has aphantasia. And the only reason I realized that was because I asked her if she saw a strange man back in the photo and she literally couldn’t tell me anything about the photo at all. Other then she knew we where in a car and she wrote in her head that the car was blue. I was shocked for a second and then I realized why she loves reading and words so much, and had a hard time with drawing. And now I understand why she loved anime. I was happy she told me about this because it made me take more pictures with her so she can look back at them just incase she forgot. She asked me to do that.

[@rubeeze_]

You’re a really considerate friend ❤ I have aphantasia too

[@Sinzari]

That's funny because I hate reading and I thought it was because I couldn't visualize what was happening, all I see are the words on the page. Can't imagine how any character looks and descriptions of scenes are completely lost on me, I usually skip over those sections. Curious why your friend loves reading if they also can't visualize anything, and if they also skip over visual descriptions like I do.

[@lolnamelollastname9788]

Balint's makes me think of dyspraxia. A colleague has constant scratches and bruises on their hands from trying to grab objects and banging into shelves

[@agetlostgirl]

Is your friend me? People think I'm a legit abuse victim. The amount of bruising is so bad that it's literally caused a blood clot in my leg and internal bleeding.

[@AkumaDayo]

im always bumping into things my spatial awareness is so bad 😭

[@thehapagirl92]

I thought I had dyspraxia since I have ADD and dyspraxia often occurs with other developmental disorders like ADD. However, dyspraxia affects fine gross and fine motor skills and minw are perfect. Turns out I’m just clumsy 😂. My two favorite activities require perfect fine motor skills: hand embroidery and hand sewing. My favorite athletic activity is running, which requires good gross motor skills

[@brennenhrebeniuk9661]

Akinetopsia is like having a damaged graphics card. Everything is at 5 frames per second

[@GameGod77]

The world moving at 5fps is how I would describe getting spiked by weed. Very weird, mildly terrifying experience.

[@11facehugger]

​@@GameGod77Thats exactly how I described edibles the first time I had them (accidentally). Its really like your cpu is overheating

[@debramm]

i got this really bad when i was high on cannabis

[@EtutEagl]

I used to think it was just my ping.

[@mayzera]

I have aphantasia, and I figured that I still can imagine things, but in a different way from the usual "closing your eyes and picturing things" (all I ever see is pitch black). To imagine things, I usually kind of daydream (but even those barely have details)? It's hard to describe

[@djangel3108]

My idea of it would be that you can't make up pictures out of anything you haven't seen before, but you can see feint outlines of things you have seen but with significantly less colour, like the most you can picture is very desaturated outlines of what you have seen.

[@mayzera]

@djangel3108 it unfortunately includes things I've already seen... at least for me :( like an apple, for example. my mom says that she can imagine an apple, the color, and even rotate it. I can't even SEE the damn apple when I close my eyes, no matter how hard I try, all I see is pitch black

[@justusfernandez8154]

​@@mayzerainstead of trying to see the image try to think about the image and then project it

[@yahiawaleed828]

I also have it, I rarely do visualize but only in dreams that I'm conscious within and also on the condition that the dream doesn't lack that much coherence. When I process things, I only process them if there's no image to them and no tangible substance like abstract concepts for instance. For some reason, I had a weak version as a kid and an early teen then it stopped.

[@FlickerTheGoofyGoober]

Same here! It's.... Kinda there??? Not in a picture it like it happened in front of me kind of way but more like how a dream feels after you had it. All dark and misty and fuzzy

[@LinkaBellGAME]

Apotemnophilia or body dysmorphia I've watched a documentary about that where a man had a perfectly good leg but it felt foreign to him, and a woman who had perfectly good eyes but again her eyes felt foreign to her and believed that she was supposed to be born blind (she got that wish though I forget the method used I believe it was bleach on her eyes?). It's really fascinating... but I didn't know it had a real name to it aside from body dysmorphia. Edit // Apparently Apotemnophilia is what this condition was called formerly. "Body integrity dysphoria (BID), also referred to as body integrity identity disorder (BIID), amputee identity disorder or xenomelia, and formerly called apotemnophilia" If anyone has any other info feel free to add onto this and/or add corrections. This is a really fascinating condition but to those who have it I hope you have found some form of tranquility

[@rosezy755]

There’s also some loose research to suggest that BID is the result of some type of miswiring. “We thus suggest that reduced white matter connectivity between the rSPL and visual areas might be linked to the experienced mismatch between phenomenal and physical body.” I think people brush off too quickly how much our brain and body are connected. Our perception of ourselves and even reality heavily relies on our brain functions

[@Quazex]

I have BID! It's a hard thing to describe if you haven't experienced it. It's sort of like my arm just doesn't belong, like it works fine and that's great and I'm well aware of that, there's no sort of Delusion going on, but it's just not right. An appropriate metaphor i could think of is like, for example if you had a video game that's all hyper realistic and then theres an item that's in pixel art. Like the pixel art looks good, yeah, but it's not supposed to be in that style of game. Last i checked (a while ago, admittedly, so i could be remembering wrong), leading theories were that the bits of the brain in someone with BIID associated with recognising the relevant limb were a bit smaller, so they just dont really recognise it as much. Again, though, I'm no neuroscientist, and i dont know how that would translate to someone with BID about being blind, for example.

[@Ex0tic_Cat_nah]

0:17 wait people don’t only see darkness wtf?? I see extremely dark mainly pitch black blurs of images in my mind 😔

[@xskribbl]

Wait wait- if you guys dont see images clearly, do you even dream when you’re asleep? Isnt that a big movie in your head?

[@evereq8970]

Language..

[@KABOOM-32]

​@@evereq8970 No

[@malthe236]

@@evereq8970oooooohh noooooooooo

[@Vince_c.3]

I got hella confused as well when I first discovered that people actually get slideshow things in their heads

[@AegisAuras]

I had a traumatic brain injury. A few weeks into it I laid down to sleep one night and that mental space I normally go into where grey inky fog starts molding into shapes was replaced with just a completely empty black void. I was shocked. There was no substance, no ink to mold into visual embodiments of concepts. It only happened for that one night, thankfully, but it was unnerving.

[@schelße]

As someone in the middle of being assasinated,

[@clobzz]

😂

[@jonnaas]

Oh god

[@Dakiro_1227]

The best Comment of The YEAR

[@mariev347]

Rip

[@schelße]

I survived my assasination atte

[@sanpedro4841]

In 2013 I had a head injury and it caused me to develop Balint's syndrome, it's a strange feeling but the symptoms are nearly exactly what you described in the video so thank you for finally giving me a name to call it 😊

[@CeraisianAlchemist]

This is why I've written my story with the idea that my entire audience has aphantasia. It forces me to be more detail-oriented.

[@124metsfan]

As someone with aphantasia dreams are wild, at least for me it’s like remembering a book you read a long time ago. You just suddenly realize stuff is happening

[@SadieAtCollege]

YES!!! i just learned I have this, and that's a perfect description

[@ΝοναΨ]

I know it doesn’t really matter too much but thanks to you I learned I have had Aphantasia my whole life and didn’t even know until now thank you

[@sarahelizabeth8691]

Same. I had to ask my husband if he saw pictures in his head when he imagined things cause that blew my mind! Also I learned that some people do not have a voice in their head for their thoughts which also blew my mind

[@Locknoire]

I remember being so surprised when I found out how common aphantasia was. I can’t imagine being unable to imagine things…

[@gloriabarberi1292]

I can perceive smells that are just in my brain, smells that can't be referred to something really existing. I perceive them in my brain not through the nostrils. Usually I think about some places, or just breath deeply, and the smell is there, not good not bad, I have never found things that smell like that. It's not my own body's odour. I may say it tastes a bit like cold winter air, but of course I can smell it in any season.

[@erionnetic1626]

YESSS, I can imagine something like "crisp fresh apple smell" very clearly most days! Same with imagining a physical touch! Like, I can remember what ice feels like pretty easily, or imagine cat fur pretty easy! Its just that darn /visual/ imagination thats really a struggle most days for me hehe

[@erionnetic1626]

And similarly, sometimes I do get the phantom-smells too, especially with something like "hint of petrichor smell/after-rain smell" or "mid-winter... somewhere..."

[@kyngdor2049]

That could be synthesia, It's a weird thing where different senses can give you phantom sensations of other senses, like smells, tastes, and also letters and symbols having certain colors, smells, tastes and other things associated with them to the degree that you that get the phantom sensations

[@trinityanderson859]

0:08 I have total aphantasia (total darkness when I close my eyes) but most people have partial aphantasia which means you can at least picture an outline or part of a picture. It’s weird that I can’t imagine pictures yet I’m pretty good at art. It’s definitely weird having aphantasia so If you have any questions about what it’s like I would be more than happy to try to explain to the best of my ability.

[@lolnamelollastname9788]

Have you always had aphantasia?

[@trinityanderson859]

@ yes

[@CatThwomper]

So when you think about something, say a cat, how do you think about the cat? Like if you closed your eyes, does your brain just list off facts like "It has a tail, it has ears, fur, etc." but no image is actually there? Or is it more of a feint outline of a cat but nothing more. I've never met someone with this, and it is Very interesting to me.

[@trinityanderson859]

@ at most I see a bunch of swirling colors almost like an acid trip other than that it’s darkness. I have to think of it more like a concept like I know what a cat looks like and just draw it.

[@FlamerElBossoGangsteritoChito]

can you imagine a face? for example your own face? like do you have outlines?

[@EBThisThat]

I think my dad might have had semantic dementia. He was sharp, lucid, but had difficulty expressing himself because he couldn't think of the right words to use in conversation. It was very frustrating for him because he was a lover of language and his vocabulary was verbose ! I'm hopeful I don't inherit this condition because, like him, I adore words myself.

[@yibonvil]

So far my dad has only lost the ability to properly autofill words, he hasn't lost the ability to know the words meaning but sometimes when he's trying to remember a word it's like his brain tells him the exact opposite thing the last time it was sausages instead of laundry

[@dreamer_the_nedyaH]

Whenever I was a child, 2-3 grade probably, the teacher told me and my classmates to close our eyes and think of an image I was like, I just see nothing, and when I still confusing, the classmates always answered

[@juju-h7v]

11:38 he forgets

[@ArionRichwood]

He forgets

[@hilkom2]

He forgets

[@CaelanQualter]

He forgets (sad)

[@rhyspatterson679]

11:30 my mom was a community health nurse in the army for 20 years. She told me a lot of stories about different people she worked with or came across over the years, like one guy lacking a suspension of disbelief so couldn’t follow movies or theater, there was another I’m pretty sure was akinetopsia, he’d been shot in the head but survived but afterward couldn’t see moving objects. If you sat in front of him he could see you but if you threw him a ball he might see it go from your hand, to appearing suddenly in front of him or being hit by it would be the next update from his brain about it. It was intermittently affecting him. Sometimes he would be fine and other times things would go flip book side show. Sadly the times he was starting to see slides was usually preceded by a seizure and sometimes even after the seizure. Like many of stranger cases (the guy who peed purple) he was given a medical discharge and mom lost touch with him but I often wonder where these people ended up.

[@PlxsteredH34rt]

You wanna know what’s so funny, My sister has aphantasia while I have Maladaptive daydreaming

[@ChaosBlitzBeta]

I will always find it something that both 999 and Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice have two characters, one in each game, have Prosopagnosia in it.

[@LondonMidlandTransport]

Why is my stupidity not on this list :(

[@dddeee791]

unfortunately its very common /j

[@bread-x2e]

Fr

[@RJ.the.artist]

Because stupidity is willful ignorance. If what are you doing isn’t willful, it’s just ignorance. Now, why your ignorance isn’t on this list, I can’t tell you. 😅

[@blazinghel1s2]

@RJ.the.artist I want to say 🤓🤓🤓, but every single time I do, I get like 30 different notifications of people flaming me for no reason

[@RJ.the.artist]

@ if you were referring to me, yes, I’m a nerd, lol 😂

[@digitalhallucinations697]

as someone with Prosopagnosia I just use people's hair color or voice, or sometimes I can remember a part of someone's face (like if they have large teeth) and they wouldn't be entirely strangers. the end part saying that was accurate!

[@DeadHorse666]

The possibility of getting aphantasia from sugary makes me want to avoid it at all cost. The visualisations for me go so far I drift in and out of dream states while I'm awake as soon as I zone out or in the middle of tasks and I come up with so much creative stuff.

[@anxiety]

I have aphantasia. I can confirm, all i see is darkness. :(

[@cjcomrie]

I swear I used to be able to visualize things a little better... but it definitely explains why I have trouble with things like tracking a map in my head or remembering faces when I tried to visualize an apple. oh, lame, I just get 'postage stamp' snippets that flicker in and out. like, I can think of the mottled red skin, or green of a granny smith. the wooden texture of the stem or the little flowery base where the bud was. but I can't 'hold it' it in mind as a whole.

[@andromedatants8940]

literally same, when I was younger I feel like I was able to picture things so vividly to a point where it was a distraction

[@2fortsmostwanted]

I experienced cotard’s delusion while I was in a psychotic episode for quite a while. Like all delusions, it was completely irrational. It didn’t make me afraid or sad or make me question *why* I was dead, it simply *was*. I would draw self-portraits of myself rotting. At one point I was speculating whether the environment around me was actually hell. When my psychotic episode gradually ended, the delusion also went away. Looking at it from the outside I can see how nonsensical it was, but when I was in it, it was fact. Happy to answer questions in the replies from the perspective of someone who’s been through it.

[@Velvetin3]

How were you motivated to take care of yourself (eating, drinking, etc?) Was it other people that convinced you or did you find a "logical" justification for it outside of upsetting loved ones/"humoring" them? (That's the main motivation I could imagine having myself so I'm mainly just curious if yours was different)

[@Velvetin3]

Also this is a bit more morbid so feel free to ignore-did the delusion include an idea of how you died, or just that you were dead? (Tried to figure out spoiler tags but I couldn't get them to work, sorry >.>)

[@Ms3queen]

Something to remember about dementia: all forms are fatal.

[@WhatIsAPig]

Unless it’s the kind that makes you a pinhead. That’s just called being named Patrick.

[@WhatIsAPig]

So being named Patrick is fatal?

[@ChadyWorld]

I'm 99% sure I have aphantasia. It always confused me how other people could see things in their heads because when I close my eyes and try to think of something, I see nothing. It's just blackness. I used to think something was wrong with me, or that other people were lying when they said they could easily see stuff when they closed their eyes. It's been helpful since I learned of aphantasia, which was pretty recent. It's sort of like figuring out I haven't been going crazy and I'm not fundamentally broken, which is nice. Anyways sorry for the little ramble, great video! Anyone who reads this, have a great day! :]

[@1The_Silliest_G00se1]

3:13 will wood mentioned

[@unicornl0]

WILL WOOD FAN SPOTTED ON KZbin

[@1The_Silliest_G00se1]

@ KCHAKHCHAGXJDHSHXJAUXI

[@Ктоя-ь1м]

*♪I WANNA MAKE MY MURDER LOOK LIKE A SCISIDE!♪*

[@SquibToast]

THAT’S WHY I CLICKED ON THE VIDEO

[@1The_Silliest_G00se1]

@@SquibToast LMAOOO

[@ILOVEPVCPIPE]

Ngl you know it’s a good day when The Evaluator uploads

[@jidearojo]

Well said my bro

[@ILOVEPVCPIPE]

@ thank you

[@soha4686]

ngl you know its a good day when you see someone on yt with a weezer pfp

[@Chip-derdumme]

Im addicted to those videos and i dont know why

[@ThingsInWarehouses]

I honestly think it's possible that Dory, Yes Dory the cartoon fish, has Korsakoff's syndrome. I mean, think about it, it's honestly possible.

[@ebanksmystiqal]

Yeah I thought so too

[@Clevertechly]

Does she drink?

[@ebanksmystiqal]

@@Clevertechly she had it as a small kid so I can assume she was born with it

[@braders790boop]

I have aphantasia. I can however imagine any music in my head in great detail and it sounds just like I'm listening to it.

[@jimtastic688]

Same here.

[@DeathcrestGhoul669]

The body dysmorphia (personally) feels like you’re trapped in a skin-tight suit with bulky parts and ‘annoying’ things that ‘get caught on something’ or ‘get in the way / make you uncomfortable’ idk if that’s how anyone else experiences it but that’s how I feel it-

[@DiamondWisps]

Definitely haven't actually suffered from Cotard's Delusion, but during I've definitely had a few depressive episodes where that feeling like I'm nothing but a rotting pile of meat can crawl up, I've guess I've been lucky enough to have enough awareness and lucidity in these moments to just, be able to tell myself those thoughts were crazy and impossible and not fall into a psychotic episode with it.

[@JamesBond-xx1lv]

Ive had balints syndrome briefly after a head injury. I feel off my bike and the next day i felt fine, but suddenly at school in the lunch room literally everything that wasnt moving disappeared, I couldn't pick up anything, and I had to have my buddy guide me to the office because the second id move, literally everything would dissappear. It wasn't like i was blind though, i could focus on things as long as i was moving and id see it. It was really scary.

[@JimmysLawyer]

11:08 so u can have low frame rate irl? 😂

[@naymeequillo]

I've met quite a few Korsakoff people... they were like constantly drunk college students. Not the worst type of dementia in a way. But getting worse every week and declining faster and faster. Very good warning to ease up on the booze for some people around me.

[@gmodiscool14]

Bro I've been on autopilot for so long dissociating for reasons I've yet to figure out, but omg. I was playing arcane odyssey mining in a dark cave. I was operating mostly off of memory and muscle memory, and my vision was barely being process. The following moments of my brain rejecting the signals sent by my eyes frantically looking for something that matched what my brain was expecting to see, an empty cave, after the rocks I broke had respawned and created a conflict was crazy. My own brain just rejected the signals my eyes were sending and it was almost like I lost grip on reality for just a second. Then I took conscious control again and processed and rationalized the different imagine instead of literally rejecting it subconscuously. It was very shocking. Man.

[@_ShadyAxolotl_]

53 minutes. LOVE THE CONTENT! Keep it up and you will have 10M subs in a year or two!.

[@Chisszaru]

I can somehow smell things that isn't even close to me. I know it probably isn't a cognitive ability, but i can smell things i'm not in the vacinity of. I do often get the smell of farms, cows, dogs, cats and horses, and i don't even live on a farm. I do often smell like horses and cats, and i don't even have a cat, nor do i have a horse. I'm not sure why i smell like a horse or a cat, it's 50% of the time, and i'm not sure why i can smell the scent of farms, as again, i don't live on a farm, i live in one of the larger towns where the closest farms are at least 1 kilometer away, if not even further. I'm not sure if it's just in my head, or what it is.

[@carlos5647]

Maybe you have a type of synesthesia, or something else? Like when you are reminded of certain things even slightly your brain interprets these thought cues as smells? Maybe you should look into it more :)

[@Chisszaru]

@carlos5647 maybe i should

[@aoi8885]

It sounds like you have olfactory hallucinations.

[@elysedelawyer4273]

I did not know that there was a name for not seeing/picturing things in my minds eye so now I know I have aphantasia

[@BON3ZandBUGZz]

I have aphantasia. I process images through word descriptions. It’s weird, because I’m an artist, but it’s true.

[@opeyemiibiwoye9191]

Same, but I'm not an artist.

[@Joe-gq2kv]

The prosopagnosic urge to create a deadly escape room game centered around the number 9.

[@HanaNam-q8j]

5:35 I have this and use voices, clothing style, and mannerism to identify people

[@pollybits]

i have problems matching peoples face to ther name like id mix up my uncles names or some of my co workers names and i cant remember the face details do i have this or am i just stupid?

[@1The_Silliest_G00se1]

I have a form of aphantasia where i can see images in dreams and when im half asleep, but i cant control them in any way. When im awake, instead of just thinking "i want to imagine a dog," i have to go through the process of mentally drawing and forming a dog. While this works sometimes, the lines are only grey and VERY shaky, and dissapear if i dont focus on them constantly. Like drawing on concrete with water on a sunny day.

[@Study-yc5ij]

0:10 WAIT, SO EVERYONE CAN SEE WHAT THEY'RE IMAGINING?? I thought that was just in cartoons

[@DeadeyeNomad]

No offense if you are but are you serious?

[@Study-yc5ij]

@DeadeyeNomad yeah I literally see nothing when I try to imagine things. I only see black I didn't even know it was possible to see the picture of what you're imagining 💀

[@DeadeyeNomad]

@@Study-yc5ij that’s really interesting

[@axelvids893]

So I’m not sure what it is you’re thinking of but people don’t “see” what they’re imagining as if they’re looking at an image on a screen. Most people are able to visualize things in their mind but they can’t literally trick their eyes into seeing things that aren’t there.

[@StockterBaxman]

Wait, people see actual images. For me, I just remember one of the apples I've seen or something. Once in a blue moon or so I can get a single blurry set of lines, but it doesn't have a background. I thought all imaginations were just vague descriptions.

[@apowergso]

I have aphantasia. All my daydreams are chaotic podcasts and I can’t visualize my cringe memories! Aphantasia is a superpower and I love it! 😃

[@hexidecimark]

It is pretty cool being able to talk about anything in front of people in exceptional detail and watching as their mental images make them recoil from time to time.

[@claire0816]

I have aphantasia and it genuinely confuses me how people deal with things. When I mention it, people ask how I'm able to think or picture things or whatever, but how do you guys think if you're just constantly seeing things in your mind? Can you control it? Are there things you see when you don't want to? People don't know how I'd live without seeing things in my mind or whatever, I don't know how you'd live with it... it's sounds so confusing.

[@Benmeover]

Actually seeing mental images you don’t want to is referred to as “intrusive thoughts” it happens to many people. While it’s normal, it can be mentally damaging for others

[@claire0816]

My intrusive thoughts are just like feelings and desires, but I've never considered how that'd look with imagining things. Is like seeing things in your mind a voluntary thing? If a thought pops into your mind can you choose to imagine it or not imagine it? I guess that's more of what I meant.

[@Icantchangemyhandlehelp]

Works the same as other thoughts. Sometimes you can control it, sometimes you don't. I'll occasionally get gory images in my head but as long as I don't let it get to me I can usually block it out by putting focus on something else.

[@FlamerElBossoGangsteritoChito]

sometimes when i try to fall asleep i get a constant vision of things that i see extremely clearly, and usually these images just smoothly change every 2 seconds, like a dragon turns into dog, dog turns into plane etc. its just that one specific period of time when your mind just turns on max saturation, brightness and it almost feels like you see things. it also happens after you wake up, or especially when you are really tired. and also i get vision of gore too and it can be really disturbing and unpleasant but you can try to control it. overall, when you have imagination ability and close your eyes, you see pitch black too and its not like you can see anything there, its not like a full-fledged screen. its more like someone told you to imagine something on a black screen, but you know you have a more vivid screen nearby where you can imagine it clearly, but no matter how hard you try to look at this vivid screen, someone tries to cover with the black screen.

[@OliviaCynderAera]

You forgot to mention hyperthymesia. According to what I've looked at, less than 100 people have been diagnosed with it.

[@itslexactually]

The name for the lobe governing motor functions is pronounced pa-RY-a-tal. It rhymes with “varietal.” Parietal. Part of a content creator’s responsibility when teaching about the brain, is to nail the basics.

[@AquariumBoy55]

I have Aphantasia, and i love art. i draw all day it. im top of my class in art and design while i can't visualize or really have an image in my mind. i do remember what the body looks like and how it works. i can remember images but i can't see it if i closed my eyes I'd see nothing and it even makes it harder for me to visualse so i need to keep my eyes open and just faintly see the memory of what I'm thinking of lol

[@Savi_I]

11:17 that only happens to me when I'm high

[@rotary135]

Me too, it’s really scary

[@theearlofdd7326]

I have had this happen before too. It was wild. I lost my ability to process 3-D space for a few minutes one time too.

[@bigawoo]

I'm so glad you said something lol I was thinking about it while scrolling comments and was hoping I wasn't alone

[@hak-en-slash4636]

My dad has Prosopagnosia. As I recal it was worse when he was a kid and didn’t know why he couldn’t recognize it, now he lives with it pretty well and just makes sure to tell new people about it so they don’t get concerned by it. In my experience it’s actively worse for him if he is trying to focus on remembering people, but if it’s sort of in passing/not his focus he does alright at it. It’s also a lot more complicated than “can’t recognize people” as you can still recognize voices, outfits, hair styles, and many other things about a person.

[@lolnamelollastname9788]

7:44 7:45 7:46 7:46 7:47 7:47 7:48 7:48 7:49 7:49 7:50 7:51 Note to self for a piece of work I'm creating! I'm wondering if my friend has this. E.g. We'll be going to the THEATRE soon. She'll start talking about the CINEMA. Sometimes there are other examples of words where you know what she actually means but says something wrong (yet tangentially related). Another example: We went to the cinema to see The DUKE. When reminiscing about it, she'll talk about The PRINCE, or another similar thjng

[@rotary135]

Please keep an eye on her! I do this a lot but I have a neurological disorder that includes this symptom, hopefully your friend does not have this horrible dementia and instead a different disorder

[@lolnamelollastname9788]

@rotary135 She's been like this for as long as I've known her, but I've definitely noticed it more over the last year or so. Will have to look up whether anything she has could be linked to it

[@TheFinagle]

I had a uni teacher with face blindness. She described it as she could not properly see faces. She could not look you in the face and tell you the colour of your eyes because her brain couldn't figure out what she was looking for in that area of her vision. She learned her students by things they usually had like their laptop or book bags. Really cool teacher, learned a lot from her.

[@jordanrijsdijk5496]

Bro seriously went from explaining aphantasia to “imagine you’re at a buffet”

[@kilbymorgan8626]

I had a double retina surgery to keep me from going blind and for the following few years I had something very close to Balint's syndrome. It was very hard for me to describe what was wrong with the eye doctor because I couldn't explain it other than "I can only lock-on to one thing at a time." It eventually went away on it's own and I didn't even notice it was gone.

[@iCammyB98]

Going through a rough time right now and these videos bring me a strange sense of peace. Thank you ❤. Hope everyone had a nice christmas

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

I love how the thumbnail implies that liking feet is a cognitive disorder.

[@yadooomi]

9:13 thingie thingie thingie thingie thingie

[@TheFreeReborn]

I thingie a thingie and thingie thingie

[@yadooomi]

@TheFreeReborn Thingie, thingied a thingie but thingie thing thingie

[@damiancrowley569]

Thing thingie thing thing

[@yadooomi]

@@damiancrowley569 thingie??!!!!!???? no thinge!!!!

[@fictionalboyfriends]

I have aphantasia and it used to be really annoying lol. In primary school we used to have ‘jigsaw time’ (like a class therapy session effectively) and they’d ask us to picture things and I’d be sat there unable to work out why the hell my ‘brain was blind’ as I used to call it. Lol

[@getdiphenhydramined]

I learnt about Anton-Babinski, other known as blindness with anosognosia, from Dr. House

[@NickRoman]

There's also the opposite where the person is not cognizant of being able to see, but they can see. I thought there was a House episode of that. The person says that he's blind, but House throws a ball and the person catches it. Or was that another show?

[@theseekingsankta3106]

I remember watching a documentary about a man with Apotemnophilia as a kid. He said his leg felt alien but whenever he went to the hospital, they told him everything was just fine. Eventually, he filled a bucket with a bunch of ice and put his leg in so it would die off. He passed out and when the ambulance arrived, it was already too late and they had to amputate the leg or he would die. He said that when he woke up and saw that his leg was gone, he felt so good and kept thinking for 2 weeks that it was just a dream because the leg being gone felt so right and was something he longed for for so long he couldn't believe it finally happened.

[@YourName-i69z]

I have low semantic dementia sometimes i will be saying a word but will forget that if it is really a word

[@davidadrianramostovar3456]

I incorrectly assumed no one can picture literal images in their brain because I can't but apparently I'm the weird one.

[@AshtonScripts]

1:20 what? you mean describing rainbows to someone who's never seen colors before?

[@Thick_dick_sucker]

They never did cocaine lol-

[@AshtonScripts]

@ what the hell are you talking about? did YOU take cocaine?

[@shysbeingshy]

I have aphantasia! And am a photographer and highly enjoy visual things. It makes my creative processes very different than the norm, but I'm not ashamed of it.

[@igottoosilly_ohno]

I have aphantasia. I “visualize” but I never see anything, I always thought everyone else didn’t really *see* and just did what I did (which is hard to explain. It’s like how computers register images. They don’t actually see anything, they just know most of the details. That’s what I do, if that makes sense). When I learned that people actually *see* things in their heads I was really confused and I still don’t think yall are serious 😭 Also I’ve experienced a very minor version of Cotard’s quite recently! I normally experience spontaneous tactile hallucinations of bugs under my skin or eating at my internal organs but I normally am aware that I am hallucinating during those moments unlike this next time. I was in math class and my brain was just suddenly like “yo. we are dead. None of this is real. We are really dead rn and we’re imagining all this shit”. No matter how many times I tried to convince myself I was alive with logic, I couldn’t feel my heartbeat, I kept forgetting to breathe, and my brain wouldn’t stfu about it. I’m fine now but that sucked I do not recommend.

[@At65461]

We do see stuff in our heads

[@kolzartsumagari]

aphantasia mentioned!!! im an artist with aphantasia. i have vague memories of being able to visualise still around my preteen years but coming adulthood i realised i couldnt do this at all and hadnt in years. the metaphors of skipping to bullet points or a projector without a bulb were apt! if i try to picture the face of someone i know, i cant really hold that image in my head at all. i still have visual dreams, and i can have involuntary mental images via intrusive flashes, which is very uncomfortable (because its usually only things that make me upset or trigger phobias if i see it)

[@hexagonalchaos]

my mom refuses to accept that i have aphantasia because im good at drawing and five year old me was imaginitive ;-;

[@MagnusPeccatori]

I remember when I realized I had aphantasia. It made me so angry to think that most people could conjure up actual mental images and I just couldn't see anything at all. It feels so unfair. Though I do remember reading an article of a woman that "cured" her aphantasia by taking shrooms once. Maybe I should try it someday and see what happens

[@von7636]

ngl this vid opened my eyes cause i have aphantasia

[@aAkZzz]

7:15 doc: hey, what color is this? patient: hmmm, it's blue. doc: trick question, I'm not showing any color