# Revelations  ## Metadata - Author: [[Katie Herzog]] - Full Title: Revelations - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: The author discovers they have aphantasia, an inability to visualize images in their mind, after a dinner conversation about memory and imagination. While others can easily picture things like apples, the author sees only darkness when they try to visualize. This realization leads them to reflect on how their lack of visual imagination affects their life and memory. - URL: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/revelations ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > That, my dad didn’t know, but this evolved into a conversation about different ways of thinking, and my dad mentioned a writer named Joshua Foer who won the World Memory Championship in 2006. The contest involves memorizing dozens of names, faces, numbers, and words in a matter of minutes, and Foer set a new record by memorizing an entire deck of cards sorted at random in less than two minutes. Foer wasn’t a savant; he didn’t have any special abilities. He simply trained himself to associate words (or numbers) with images, like a visual mnemonic, and then, when it was time to recall, he visualized the images in his mind. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jh3wfrp4yfp92y3mqmth53md))