Any Vipassana meditator with aphantasia, the inability to imagine visuals? If so, I have a question: when you are told to imagine a red apple and a green apple, do you experience any bodily difference?

Aphantasia is a condition in which an individual is unable to visualize things. I am an aphantasiac and I am unable to visualize things like a red apple. But still, in my non-visual experience of imagining, when I try to observe my experience between imagining a red apple and a green apple, I observe a bodily difference. If I'm being generous, it is like a complex but very light gravitational force that is changing.

I am asking this in r/vipassana and not in r/aphantasia, because vipassana meditators are really good at observing bodily sensations.

Posted Jun 14, 2026, 12:19 PM UTC

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