Nicole Bonnett

I was inspired to write about aphantasia because of my mother. She can only see images in her mind's eye when she is dreaming. However, like other people with aphantasia, visualisation is difficult for her, if not impossible. This makes reading fiction or fantasy a challenge — she struggles to picture the landscapes, characters and unfolding scenes in her mind as she reads. As a result, she is not able to lose herself in a...