How to think in pictures

[Josh (Josh Cohen)]

Have you seen this post? I would try this exercise – something like that worked for me with faces.

How to review your memory palace if you have Aphantasia?

I have some problems with faces and couldn’t picture them at one point. After a lot of practice I can now picture them without problem (though I still don’t always recognize people that I know if I haven’t seen them in a few months). I wrote about a couple of the exercises I did here. It might be worth experimenting with something like this: stare at an object and then close your eyes and see if you can hold it in your mind, even for a moment. It might not work right away, but I’d keep practic…