Hollie Heron-Stamp

Hi Nicolas, I believe I fall into the Hyperphantasic and my partner falls into the Aphantasic parts of the spectrum, so we have had a lot of conversations about this. The way we have managed to get on the same page about 'seeing on the eyelids' bit is through this analogy (the irony of describing a picture is not lost on me here): When we see things with our physical eyes, it's just the eye looking at a tree for example. When we see things with our minds eye, our mind becomes a cinema of sorts. Our imagination is 'Directing' a 'film' and the minds eye is 'watching' it. My partner asked me, so which bit is the screen? where is the film being projected onto? My answer is that, some people project it onto their eyelids (metaphorically speaking I guess, but it still seems real) and others project the image onto their forehead (That's how I do it so there's more space - I think I started doing the forehead as a kid because then it's easier to incorporate the other senses). I hope you find this helpful!