CEREBROSPINALECTOMYMe: "Close your eyes and picture an apple." Him: "Okay." Me: "What color is it?" Him: "...hold on. You can actually SEE one?" Save this, then ask the person next to you what they saw.
EXPLAINED (ACCURACY-CHECKED)
Aphantasia — the absence of voluntary visual imagery — affects a small minority of people (commonly cited estimates of roughly 1-4%), and many individuals do not discover it until adulthood.
Established: aphantasia (Zeman et al.) — absence of voluntary visual imagery; prevalence estimates commonly cited around 1-4%. Card deliberately says 'a few people in every hundred' rather than a hard figure.
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