How do you know that you have aphantasia?<p>I just took the test on the BBC and got the lowest score, but I&#x27;m still not sure if I have aphantasia or not.<p>I can &quot;picture&quot; scenes in my mind. I certainly don&#x27;t have a problem with imagination or thinking up different potential realities.<p>But the picture I have is basically a literary description. If you asked me to imagine a beach I would rapidly compose a narrative composition of said beach: there&#x27;s turquoise water lapping against the sand which slopes up gradually. Oh and there&#x27;s probably a rock somewhere along the shoreline. And there are some palm trees. But in my mind this process is occurring exactly how it&#x27;s happening here: as text.<p>That being said, I remain unconvinced that I actually have aphantasia. How do I know everyone else isn&#x27;t having the same experience but describing it with images?<p>One point is that when I tried to imagine my best friend&#x27;s face I couldn&#x27;t come up with more than a general description. But perhaps this is just a poor memory of faces?<p>Like you, I also have a terrible experiential memory. I barely remember going to high school at all and the few memories that I <i>do</i> have from my life are basically stories—narrative snapshots which I have verbalized enough times for them to be embedded in my mind, just like the plots of my favorite books are. I can just as easily imagine the first time I asked out a girl as when Frodo destroyed the One Ring.<p>Are there any more scientific tests available?