Elizabeth Firth

Hey Martin, loved your article, thank you. Your 'coping strategies' really resonated with me. When I read over a journal entry, I don't 'recognise' the person who wrote it. And ditto with your experience of a video blog/photo/reflection. I was legit worried for my sanity - it's good to know it's just a case of aphantasia with SDAM.

Hey Jamie - this is totally true for me. But I didn't even realise it until I read your post. When I tried to 'describe' my face, I came up with 'eyes, nose, mouth, brown hair'. Shape of mouth? No idea - it's a mouth. Size of eyes? Um, eye size? Any stand out features? Mmm, don't think so. Curiously, I've observed when I use CBD (I have it for medicinal puposes) that I get a surprise when I see my own reflection. Like I don't recognise myself. I figured this was something to do with being a bit high, but now I wonder if it is mores o related to having aphantasia? And the reason I only notice it occuring when I'm high is because other times, my logical brain 'knows' that the reflection is me, but when I'm on CBD, I tend to get out of my logical brain and into my emotional one. So I'm more surprised when I see my reflection. It takes me a hot minute to "accept" (or reason) that the image looking back at me, is me. Thanks for the post, it's given me something to ponder.