I thought 'mind's eye' was just a metaphor. When my eyes are open, I see only what's around me. When I close them I see nothing. Ever You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...

The Mind's Eye is about how our "mind's eye" - that mysterious theatre within, upon which we stage our private visual experience - works, and what goes wrong when it doesn't.

That’s because Luciani has a condition called aphantasia — an inability to picture objects, people and scenes in his mind. When he was growing up, the term didn’t even exist.

Amanda Jacobs, 25, realized she didn't have a mind's eye in early 2019. In fact, her discovery was eerily similar to Ebeyer's.

For people who are able to imagine what things look like as easily as breathing, it’s hard to conceptualize having no mind’s eye. “If you try and imagine a beach, you can probably ‘see ...

Words are powerful things. In 2015, with the help of a friend versed in the classics and two psychologist collaborators, I coined the term “aphantasia” to refer to the absence of a mind’s eye. We ...