Discovering Your Mind - Aphantasia and Beyond

About Discovering Your Mind - Aphantasia and Beyond

The Discovering Your Mind Podcast is dedicated to research and discussion surrounding all aspect of the mind's eye from Aphantasia to Hyperphantasia and everything in between. Using our in-depth questionnaire that we call the "Discovering Your Mind Protocol", we unlock and discover your unique way of visualizing and bask in the beauty of our differences.

Publisher

Shane's Brain

Category

education · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Jan 2024

Latest episode

9 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

83 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Jun 2026

   The Experiences, Insights, and Methods of a Middle School Teacher who Discovered that Aphantasia was a Thing with Paul Bogush Part 2

   Send us Fan Mail In part two with Paul Bogush, a visualizing middle school teacher, we continue our discussion about his experiences trying to understand and help his students that have aphantasia. He explains how aphantasia is not a diagnosis or a disorder and we get into the ever complicated question of "what is imagination?". We also talk about sympathy vs empathy, advantages, labels, anxiety, multi-step directions, creativity, reading comprehension, art, personal organization, decision fa...

2. 

   2 Jun 2026

   The Experiences, Insights, and Methods of a Middle School Teacher who Discovered that Aphantasia was a Thing with Paul Bogush Part 1

   Send us Fan Mail In part one with Paul Bogush, a visualizing middle school teacher, he tells how he discovered that aphantasia was a thing and how it immediately explained so much about his life experiences with his daughter and his students. He goes on to explain how learning about aphantasia has helped him better reach the small percentage of students that he was missing before, because his previous teaching style was focused on using visualization. We also discuss the education system in g...

3. 

   26 May 2026

   Face Blindness, Stereo Blindness, Aphantasia, and SDAM with Sadie Dingfelder Part 2

   Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk with Sadie Dingfelder who is face blind, stereo blind, aphantastic, and SDAMic in nature. She is the author of Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination. In part two, we focus on aphantasia and SDAM with some face blindness and stereo blindness sprinkled in. We talk about how aphantasia and SDAM interplay with art, choreography, chess, photoshop, school, spelling, getting over breakups, writing, ex...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

87,199

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

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Quality

22

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

68

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