Aphasia affects 3% of the population, and sufferers don’t know what visual imagination is. They are people who live in an empty report, in a blind mind where there are no images, faces or landscapes. These men and women do not know what it is to dream, they have never mentally escaped from a stage of peace where they can calm stress or get lost in parallel universes whose possibilities are endless.
This condition may seem strange to us. Beyond the particular, however, is the dramatic or, at the very least, the sad, people with this disease do not remember who the deceased father or an important person they have not seen in a long time. However, let’s say that those born with this particular feature cannot miss something they have never experienced.
- Living in a spirit blinded by aphasia places them in a space where they continually feel alien.
- At first.
- A child with this neurological disability knows something is happening to him because he doesn’t know what it’s like to dream or have nightmares.
- They can’t visually remember the things they saw.
- For example.
- That afternoon in the park.
- That day on the beach.
- This doesn’t exist visually in your mind.
- And something like that creates strangeness when you realize that others can remember.
We are facing a reality as special as it is interesting, which deserves to be studied.
Neurologists define aphasia as a type of mental blindness, and that term impresses us. However, what is the life of a person with this disease like, maybe it’s too limited?Besides, what’s its origin? This is a neurological alteration that has been being studied in greater depth since 2016.
We know of its existence since 1840, when Sir Francis Galton, a famous British psychologist, anthropologist, explorer and geneticist, described several cases, including statistical analysis. At the time, he estimated that 2-3% of the population might not have this ability to create mental images.
It was not until 2016 that the scientific community took a new interest in aphasia, and this was done by Dr. Adam Zeman, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Exeter, who eventually coined the term. That same year, Blake Ross, co-creator of Firefox, published an essay describing her own experience with this new neurological disease. As a result of his work, aphasia began to go viral on social media and attracted the interest of more experts.
Imagine two apples, one green and one bright red. Reading this, 97% of us (according to statistical data) will see this image almost instantly, however, those with aphasia will not be able to perform this neurological process because their mind cannot see, because in their brain universe there are no images. .
According to the researchers, this could be a failure to create standards for everything we see. Every visual stimulus has an impact on our brain, an impression that creates a type of pattern, a sequence, a shape, so when we remember something, it is common for these same patterns to appear almost instantly, creating mental images.
Affasic people do not create visual models; therefore, there is a flaw in this process, everything you see or have seen does not generate any image in the brain, it is like suffering partial blindness, where our inner eyes do not understand what is outside and cannot insert it. Within.
Affasic life is not limited. You can identify yourself, be self-sufficient in every aspect of your life, work and succeed like everyone else, yet these people know there’s something different about them.
In addition, what Dr. Adam Zeman himself points out is the positive reaction of someone who in the end gets a name and an explanation of what he has always suffered and is not sure how to define it.
At this time, there is no treatment for aphasia. Although living with it does not limit any aspect of daily life, it is curious to know that people diagnosed say they feel different and know that there is something they need, after all, there is nothing more free and comforting than thinking in images, like the ability to imagine?