Discovering Your Mind - Aphantasia and Beyond Shane's Brain

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to part 2 of discovering the mind of Laurel Smith-Williams. In this episode, we discover that Laurel has a hard time imagining unique faces, has worse vision than normal in her dreams, feels less rested the more sleep she gets, and can delete unpleasant things from her mind. Support the Show.Here is a link to the apple graph and the nature pic. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasiaYou could be on the podcast with YouPhantasia! Record and submit your ...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we discover how Laurel Smith-Williams' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Laurel is hyperphantastic and her mind is quite amazing in many different ways. We discuss how her imagination space and memory space are two different spaces in her mind and how accurate her memories are. She also has a cool description of how experiencing memories in third person affects the sound quality of the memory. Plus this episode features a s...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we interview married couple, Haley and Isaiah, who both have aphantasia. Well, technically, Haley is hypophantastic, but she is very aphantastic in most regards. We discuss several interesting topics including putting the mind on autopilot and what it's like to experience the psychedelic effects of Psilocybin as a person with Aphantasia.Support the Show.Here is a link to the apple graph and the nature pic. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasiaYou ...

Send us a Text Message.This episode is hosted by special guest-host Cole Williams. Cole is studying for BA of Science-Psychology. He leads us in an interesting and important discussion about the research that is being done in connection to aphantasia, visualization, and psychological disorders. We discuss possible links, solutions, theories, and much more regarding mental imagery, or the lack thereof, to disorders such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, bipolar, anorexia, schizophrenia, and more.S...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, I share and comment on questions and discussions from past guests about how my mind works. Many of my guests are curious about aphantasia and so they ask me questions, trying to better understand what I am experiencing. Here are some of those conversations, resulting in me struggling to explain my brain. Support the Show.Here is a link to the apple graph and the nature pic. https://www.shanesbraindomain.com/aphantasiaYou could be on the podcast wit...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we discover how Matthew Bockholt's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Matthew is the most hyperphantasia person that I have interviewed so far. His descriptions and insights are intriguing for sure. He is also an author and he discusses the very real relationships that he has with his characters. He describes his imagination as a separate universe that is just as realistic in every way as this one is... but even better because he ...