Can You See the World When You Close Your Eyes?
Culture Index
Score Breakdown
Relevance
3/25
Freshness
24/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
6/15
Depth
6/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
Aphantasia (the inability to visualize) is one of those things that I find endlessly fascinating; I’ve written about it a few times since 2016 , most recently in response to Larissa MacFarquhar’s 2025 piece for the New Yorker: Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound . Many of his correspondents, he learned, had discovered their condition very recently, after reading abou
