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Most people can picture images in their minds: what a banana looks like, or even the face of a loved one, but not everyone can.

People, like Mary Wathen, who can't visualise anything in their minds eye have a condition called aphantasia.

Speaking to 5 Live Drive鈥檚 Clare McDonnell, Mary said that the idea that people could bring up images in their heads felt like a 鈥渕agic trick鈥� to her.

鈥淚 think it鈥檚 probably an important lesson to us all to never jump to a conclusion about what somebody else is maybe thinking鈥�.

Mary also spoke about the limitations of aphantasia: 鈥淚鈥檝e got two young children, I鈥檇 love to be able to relive those moments by bringing the visuals back up, and I can鈥檛 do that鈥�.

This clip is from 5 Live Drive on 11th April 2024.