But there are some people who simply cannot form such mental images. They have a condition known as aphantasia, or “mind blindness”—it’s rare, and only affects about 4 percent of the ...

Aphantasia was first described in 1880 by ... I also don’t see a movie playing in the background as I read a story, the way I ...

For most of us that's a natural and easy thing to do. But if you have aphantasia you'd find that very difficult, probably even impossible. The condition didn’t even have a name until 2015 ...