57 Years Old - Just Developed Aphantasia

Greetings everyone. I am a prolific author and artist who could always visualize extremely clearly. If I imagined a scene I was working on in a novel I could see everything - the links in the chain mail, the wind in the heroine's hair, etc. etc. I loved my daily meditation because I could wholly escape into an imaginary world of a temple on top of a tall mountain. Everything was immersive and vivid.

These past three years have been extremely stressful for a variety of reasons and it all rose in the past few months. Suddenly I realized a week ago that I could no longer visualize ANYTHING. My inner mind's eye is completely black. It momentarily flickered back one time, with a rich green meadow under a blue sky, and then it went away again. It never occurred to me that I could lose it.

I am really hoping that if I work daily on reducing stress, focus on my meditation, and practice daily, that I can regain my visualization. I miss it immensely.

Any advice would be warmly appreciated. I'm going to journal about this so if I make any progress I can help others.