Leslie Den Harder

I have meditated for many years using the simple technique of focussing on my breaths . I have never been able to make sense of inventing a minds eye picture and only recently realised that I am aphantasic.  The only mental images I can conjour up are vague and from my memory. If I close my eyes and try to ‘picture a desert island’ I have nothing just blackness. I have also discovered that my lack of earlier life memories is the result of dissociation. I am interested in the intersection of  aphantasia and memory.  Other members of my family who are still alive are not aphantasic, neither are my children or grandchildren.  No doubt these kinds of questions will be the subject of study and I will follow the research projects with interest.