Discovering Your Mind - Aphantasia and Beyond
The Discovering Your Mind Podcast is dedicated to research and discussion surrounding all aspect of the mind's eye from Aphantasia to Hyperphantasia and everything in between. Using our in-depth questionnaire that we call the "Discovering Your Mind Protocol", we unlock and discover your unique way of visualizing and bask in the beauty of our differences.
Episodes
81 episodes
Discovering the Mind of Michael Nielsen
In this episode we discover how Michael Nielsen's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Michael's mind is kind of all over the place. He explains how there really isn't a ton of images in his head and often times it's...
Discovering the Mind of Garrett Sudweeks Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of Discovering the Mind of Garrett Sudweeks. In this episode, Garrett talks about how he dislikes books with too much description, and how he struggled in school until he learned how to create his own homework that was better ...
Discovering the Mind of Garrett Sudweeks Part 1
In this episode we discover how Garrett Sudweeks' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. We have another guest with hyperphantasia who has some interesting details to share. Garrett talks about how he visualizes many differe...
Anendophasia (No Inner Voice) with researcher Johanne Nedergård
In this episode, Johanne Nedergård explains her involvement in research surrounding inner speech and more specifically, the lack thereof. She, and her team, have given the phenomenon of not having an inner voice, the name Anendophasia. We...
Discovering the Mind of Kary Jensen
In this episode we discover how Kary Jensen's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Kary leads us into some new and interesting discussions including premature closure, tasting food that is on tv, dyslexia, and visualizing ...
Discovering the Mind of Laurel Smith-Williams - Part 2
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 ...
Discovering the Mind of Laurel Smith-Williams - Part 1
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 sp...
An Aphantastic Conversation with Haley and Isaiah
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 o...
Aphantasia, Visualization, and Disorders
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, ...
Explain Shane's Brain
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 ar...
Discovering the Mind of Matthew Bockholt
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...
Discovering The Mind of C Michelle Jefferies
In this episode we discover how Michelle Jefferies' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. We start out identifying Michelle as aphantasia but as we move along its definitely more along the lines of hypophantasia. It's inter...
Discovering the Mind of Alexander Vercoutre
In this episode we discover how Alexander Vercoutre's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Join us as we try to determine exactly what is happening in Alex's mind. Does he have aphantasia or not? I'm not 100% sure but I am...
Discovering the Mind of Alex Williams
In this episode we discover how Alex Williams' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. It's really fun to hear Alex's answers because although she scores very high in all of the senses in her mind, they seem to have mind of t...
Discovering the Mind of Carl Demille
In this episode we discover how Carl Demille's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Carl is an interesting case as his visualization seems to be a bit difficult to predict. He starts out with some very detailed description...
Discovering the Mind of Shane Miner
In this episode we discover how Shane Miner's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Shane is our second guest with aphantasia. The differences are on full display again as we identify how technical and left brained Shane's ...
Hyperphantasia and Beyond
In this episode with special guests, Cole Williams, and Stacey Williams, we delve a little deeper into the world of Hyperphantasia by exploring some new questions that bring out some new interesting details we haven't discussed before. Hyperpha...
Discovering the Mind of Stacey Williams
In this episode we discover how Stacey Williams' mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Stacey's mind is very versatile and can do most anything you ask it to... which is pretty cool. We discuss what a brain fart is and how ...
Discovering the Mind of Cole Williams
In this episode we discover how Cole Williams's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Cole can visualize alright, but he is off the charts when it comes to the sense of touch and feeling in his mind. This goes hand in hand ...
Discovering the Mind of Tony Ort
In this episode we discover how Tony Ort's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Tony is our first guest with aphantasia. Although we both have aphantasia and can relate to each other on many things, we also discover signif...
Discovering the Mind of Robbie Joosten
In this episode we discover how Robbie Joosten's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Robbie has a lot of fun and unique situations and experiences to share about his mind. But, the real question is, if you saw a toilet in...
Discovering the Mind of Donna Jensen
In this episode we discover how Donna Jensen's mind's eye works using the Discovering Your Mind Protocol. Donna is our first person with hypophantasia on the podcast. Hypophantasia is what I call "almost aphantasia". But Donna also has a very i...
Imagination, Happy Places, and The Theater of the Mind with Sarah Pett
In this episode with special guest, Sarah Pett, we discuss how imagination can greatly affect childhood, and how visualization, or the lack thereof, influences every aspect of our lives. We get a glimpse of how simple words and phrases can mean...