As someone with damage to my visual cortex with a very specific effect I’m very curious what this would come up with for me. Not something useful on its own, but more understanding means more possibilities for treatments.
In discussions about neurological diversity and the potential for treatments or adaptations, recognizing and respecting individual experiences while avoiding overgeneralization is key. Conversations around aphantasia, brain injuries, and visual processing offer opportunities for learning and exploration but should be navigated with care to ensure they are inclusive and sensitive to all involved.
Aphantasia is the term attributed to the inability to willfully create internal visual objects in the mind that can be perceived consciously. So, that leaves an open unconscious "will" still being able to create them. Studies, and personal experience, shows people considered to have this "condition" called Aphantasia, are able to see hypnogogic images during transition to sleep. And most of us have dreams too.
Drawing a conclusion of that term applied to someone who clearly states they have damage to a certain part of their brain and then correlating that an estimated 1-2% of the population is a bit of an insensitive thing, maybe.
Then again, I saw a lot of this while exploring the topic a few years back, so it's understandable that people who visualize think it's some sort of "problem" instead of a super power (which it is).
