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 @85aba34a ...hhhuh, I was recently posting about this thing. 
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Number 5 for me.  All my life I thought all people were like that.  This cartoon is about me.
Including the voice in my head, I don't have one.
Smell, music, feelings.  Nope.  Aphantasia for me, to the max.  Sometimes it drives my wife crazy (oh, and it drives me crazy too). 
 @85aba34a The final face in the last panel is wrong though, its friggin fascinating how differently people work and experience the world! :D 
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I have met someone who could not do images or inner voice. Other than that they seemed ok, even though I thought they may have been an android or alien. 
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It's pretty cool that humans with such a wide range of ways to experience reality can communicate and get along as well as we do. 
 @85aba34a has anyone developed a test for this? I feel like everyone sees the same but just describes the experience differently. 
 @85aba34a oh, oof, I remember Katzun's YouTube video about that! I might have a little too lol 
 @85aba34a when i was younger, I read pages of a book in seconds. I could take a snapshot of the page and read it later.
If I lost something, I could rewind my day and see where I put it.
A certain medicine damaged this and two things.

1 I had to learn how to memorise stuff - jeez it's hard rebuilding short term memory.
2 I realised not everyone could remember it all or rewind the day.

Until then I thought many others were lazy or slow