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Menopause is different for every single woman out there. Some are upset at the loss of their ability to bear a child. Many people of ‘my generation’ remember the Little House on the Prairie episode where Ma thinks joyfully that she is pregnant at the same time as her daughter is – only to realize

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I have been meditating for many years and have written several books about meditation. Meditation is a key part of my stress-relief routine. I would often meditate with a visualization component. I could be relaxing in a shady forest glen or in a safe retreat high on a mountaintop. And then I was hit with

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When I was younger, I was extremely active. I’d keep my mountain bike in my car and bike the trails every day after work. I’d go out dancing on weekends. I loved being in motion. Now that I’m in my fifties and extremely busy with my work and organizations, I never find time. I don’t

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I have been an artist and a writer since I was quite young. I love writing stories, drawing pictures, taking photos, and being creative. In my adult life, I’ve been the president of the Blackstone Valley Art Association for over ten years. We work closely with Open Sky, a group which nurtures people with developmental

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Aphantasia is a lack of the ability to visualize. Clearly something is ‘not quite right’ with the brain if it’s not able to do something that 96% of the population does regularly every day. It’s even more striking when an adult goes from being able to clearly visualize to suddenly losing that ability. There are

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Aphantasia is a lack of an ability to visualize. Sleep – with dreams – is all about immersing wholly in a mental visualization. Are the two related? While only 4% of the population has aphantasia, and cannot visualize at all when conscious, most of those people can have dreams. That being said, most people with

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For most of my life, I had extremely realistic visualization abilities. I could imagine a scene or a work of art quite clearly. This helped me a lot with my art and writing projects. At the same time, I tended to have a poor memory. I worked on this, creating ‘memory palaces’ to track information.

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Up to 4% of the population has aphantasia – the inability to visualize – and most don’t even know it. These people don’t even realize that the other 96% of the population can see images in their heads. People with aphantasia, when they hear the prompt “Imagine you are on a sunny beach”, don’t realize

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Many of us are taught through childhood that our bodies have five senses: * The sense of sight* The sense of hearing* The sense of smell* The sense of taste* The sense of touch We now know that our bodies have many, many other senses and that some of those senses, like the sense of

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I recently, suddenly developed aphantasia. For nearly sixty years I could intensely visualize scenes and images in my imagination. This was wonderful as an author and artist. Then, in the blink of an eye, it was all gone. I was under intense stress at the time. My father committed suicide, then my mother died after

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