Discovering Your Mind - Aphantasia and Beyond

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In part two with Paul Bogush, a visualizing middle school teacher, we continue our discussion about his experiences trying to understand and help his students that have aphantasia. He explains how aphantasia is not a diagnosis or a disorder and we get into the ever complicated question of "what is imagination?". We also talk about sympathy vs empathy, advantages, labels, anxiety, multi-step directions, creativity, reading comprehension, art, personal organization, decision fatigue, validation, and the apple test vs the square test. Oh and in case you missed it... when it comes to our internal experiences, everyone is different.
Check out the original Aphantasia and Beyond Youtube videos that I mention in this episode. Here is part one and then you can link to the rest of the series from there. https://youtu.be/vIuHL_OrA4s?si=wMuaa8CnVkkMABmN
Check out Paul's stuff... http://holeyhiker.com • http://paulbogush.org • https://www.nopictureneeded.com

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Here is a link to the apple graph, the nature picture, and the carnival picture. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasia

You could be on the podcast with YouPhantasia! Record and submit your input. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/youphantasia

Join our Discovering Your Mind Facebook group and participate in discussions, questions, and more. https://www.facebook.com/groups/316476481204107/

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• Make a donation with https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shanesbrain
• Purchase t-shirts and books on https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/

Purchase the book, Aphantasia and Beyond, here:
https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasia

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In part one with Paul Bogush, a visualizing middle school teacher, he tells how he discovered that aphantasia was a thing and how it immediately explained so much about his life experiences with his daughter and his students. He goes on to explain how learning about aphantasia has helped him better reach the small percentage of students that he was missing before, because his previous teaching style was focused on using visualization. We also discuss the education system in general, mislabeling students with aphantasia, why working harder is not the answer, having a photo album vs filing cabinet, younger children vs older children, the red square test, and more. Oh, and shocker, he just recently discovered that not everyone visualizes the same way he does. Even as someone that has been studying aphantasia for over 3 years, and claims to have listened to this podcast, he still made that assumption. So  crazy.
Check out Paul's stuff... http://holeyhiker.com • http://paulbogush.org • https://www.nopictureneeded.com
Support the show
Here is a link to the apple graph, the nature picture, and the carnival picture. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasia

You could be on the podcast with YouPhantasia! Record and submit your input. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/youphantasia

Join our Discovering Your Mind Facebook group and participate in discussions, questions, and more. https://www.facebook.com/groups/316476481204107/

We appreciate your support! Here are 3 easy ways you can support the show financially:
• Go to https://podcast.discoveringyourmind.com/ and become a monthly donor.
• Make a donation with https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shanesbrain
• Purchase t-shirts and books on https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/

Purchase the book, Aphantasia and Beyond, here:
https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasia

Short Guitar Clip by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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In this episode, I talk with Sadie Dingfelder who is face blind, stereo blind, aphantastic, and SDAMic in nature. She is the author of Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination. In part two, we focus on aphantasia and SDAM with some face blindness and stereo blindness sprinkled in. We talk about how aphantasia and SDAM interplay with art, choreography, chess, photoshop, school, spelling, getting over breakups, writing, experiencing memories, learning lessons, observing the world, and perspective. We also discuss trial and error, feeling and thinking in the moment, the internet's influence, embracing not knowing, and so much more! This one is jam packed!

For more info about Sadie and her book, check out https://www.sadied.com/
Support the show
Here is a link to the apple graph, the nature picture, and the carnival picture. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasia

You could be on the podcast with YouPhantasia! Record and submit your input. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/youphantasia

Join our Discovering Your Mind Facebook group and participate in discussions, questions, and more. https://www.facebook.com/groups/316476481204107/

We appreciate your support! Here are 3 easy ways you can support the show financially:
• Go to https://podcast.discoveringyourmind.com/ and become a monthly donor.
• Make a donation with https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shanesbrain
• Purchase t-shirts and books on https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/

Purchase the book, Aphantasia and Beyond, here:
https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasia

Short Guitar Clip by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: http://audionautix.com/

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In this episode, I talk with Sadie Dingfelder who is face blind, stereo blind, aphantastic, and SDAMic in nature. She is the author of Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination. In part one, we focus on face blindness and stereo blindness with some aphantasia and SDAM sprinkled in. We talk about what each of these conditions are, how she discovered them in herself, and how these conditions affect her life. We also discuss super recognizers, skepticism, science, research, introspection, uniqueness, misconceptions, symptoms, tips, stigma, and more.

For more info about Sadie and her book, check out https://www.sadied.com/
Support the show
Here is a link to the apple graph, the nature picture, and the carnival picture. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasia

You could be on the podcast with YouPhantasia! Record and submit your input. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/youphantasia

Join our Discovering Your Mind Facebook group and participate in discussions, questions, and more. https://www.facebook.com/groups/316476481204107/

We appreciate your support! Here are 3 easy ways you can support the show financially:
• Go to https://podcast.discoveringyourmind.com/ and become a monthly donor.
• Make a donation with https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shanesbrain
• Purchase t-shirts and books on https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/

Purchase the book, Aphantasia and Beyond, here:
https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasia

Short Guitar Clip by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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In this episode we discover how Pamela Topjian's mind works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Pamela is a visualizer and we discuss things like thinking vs visualizing, memory vs imagination, and internal hearing vs internal seeing. Although she is highly visual, when I asked her to not think of a pink elephant she was able to accomplish it just fine because she has a good amount of control over her visualization and she's a rule follower. We also talk about her trustworthy memory, tasting donuts in her mind, and making mental notes.

Check out Panela's books and podcast, etc below:
Linktr.ee/PamelaTopjian
Pamela's podcast link is https://holisticconnections.podbean.com/
It's also in a playlist on her YouTube channel YouTube.com/@PamelaTopjian
Book links: 
I Didn’t Come This Far To Only Come THIS Far
https://a.co/d/088E4ujv
Behind The Mask Gloves & Scrubs. One nurse's journey. 
https://a.co/d/0if6om7g
Support the show
Here is a link to the apple graph, the nature picture, and the carnival picture. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasia

You could be on the podcast with YouPhantasia! Record and submit your input. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/youphantasia

Join our Discovering Your Mind Facebook group and participate in discussions, questions, and more. https://www.facebook.com/groups/316476481204107/

We appreciate your support! Here are 3 easy ways you can support the show financially:
• Go to https://podcast.discoveringyourmind.com/ and become a monthly donor.
• Make a donation with https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shanesbrain
• Purchase t-shirts and books on https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/

Purchase the book, Aphantasia and Beyond, here:
https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasia

Short Guitar Clip by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: http://audionautix.com/

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