As a child, my dad had the &quot;Mega Memory&quot; tapes around the house and I remember listening to them.  Very early on in the lessons, the instructor talks about using basic association because we &quot;think in pictures.&quot;  As an example, he noted that if he said the word elephant, people picture an elephant, not the word &quot;e-l-e-p-h-a-n-t.&quot;  I must have been eight or nine at the time and remember being terribly confused because I couldn&#x27;t really picture of an elephant in my head.  I suspect I do have aphantasia to a certain degree.<p>Unlike the author, I do dream visually (in fact, I tend to have very vivid dreams; the most vivid ones are difficult to separate from reality, even if the subject matter is something fantastic like being part of an interstellar military or something). If I&#x27;m in a state between waking and sleeping I actually do have much more of a mind&#x27;s eye, but when I&#x27;m fully awake I don&#x27;t have pictures in my head...but I remember what it&#x27;s like to visualize things mentally because of my dreams.<p>I have at least something of a &quot;mind&#x27;s ear&quot; in that I can hear music in my head (the detail is usually not as rich; it&#x27;s often just the melody with lyrics).  Additionally, I have a very good memory for song lyrics and when I listen to music the concept of tuning out or not being extremely aware of the lyrics is something that friends I have described but that I rarely experience.  I can usually only tune out lyrics in music if it&#x27;s a song that I&#x27;m already very familiar with.<p>One aspect that I find interesting is that although I can&#x27;t really picture places I still have spatial awareness in my mental concept of them.  For example, if I remember one of the houses we lived in as a child I can &quot;place&quot; various objects in and around the house in their correct spatial relationships without picturing the objects themselves. Do other people with aphantasia also have this experience?