Aphantasia is the inability to visualise
Mental images, that is, not being
able to picture something in one's
Mind. Many people with Aphantasia
are also unable to recall sounds, smells
Or sensations of touch. Some also
report
prosopagnosia, the inability to Recognise faces. The phenomenon was
First described by Francis Galton in
1880, but has since remained relatively
ely unstudied.
Interest in the phenomenon was renewed after the publication of a 2015 study conducted by a team led by Professor Adam Zeman of the University of Exeter, which also coined the term Aphantasia. Research on the condition is still scarce. The term Aphantasia is derived from the Ancient Greek word phantasia (φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ), meaning 'imagination,' and the prefix a (ᾰ̓-), which means 'without.' Hyperphantasia, where mental imagery is unusually vivid, is the opposite of Aphasia. to
Aphasia is a condition that affects your
ability to communicate. It can affect
your speech, as well as the way you
write and understand both spoken
and written language.
Aphasia typically occurs suddenly
after a stroke or a head injury.
I have all three?
Wow, just a name lifted my spirit and inspired me to create this blog.
APHANTASTIC
It's Aphantastic to put a name on something, the very thing that drove
me to suicide. For the last eighteen
years, I have been writing black-
hole poetry, my writing has pulled
me from the ledge, as John Berryman
called 'The blind-brow.'
All those years spent in default mode, telling doctors, nurses and psychiatric professionals who had no clue about
the blackness behind my eyes, unable
to conjure up images from my mind's eye.
Unable to cling to images of my own
sons, my childhood and my family.
It was as if I were a blank shell of a man.
At least now I've got a name, a reason
for my anxiety.
I have been trying to form a formless
mind, but I knew I knew I was onto something; The poems were feeding
I hope, even if it was a dark hope.
I flicked through YouTube as I stayed
away from adverts. I watched a guy
talking to a professor about how he couldn't hold the images of his dead mother in his mind, and thought he
was going mad, and the professor
said he had a condition
called Aphantasia.
Wow, just a name lifted my spirit
and inspired me to create this
blog of hope.
CRYPTOCHROME
CHIMPANZEE POETRY
5G got into me
morphogenetic
Chimpanzee poetry.
Neuroscience sees the right brain as monkey mind
The right brain is far from being like a monkey's.
Let me start by saying, I am not a scientist.
Just a mere poet, gripped. I took a massive
In 2005, a stroke erased my left brain.
So,
I live on the right side; why is that?
I understand the divided brain. I have been
writing for years on my sense that Raymond -
Carver and Patrick Kavanagh are here in
The realm of possibility. Me becoming poet
It was an accident, but a signal of humanity.
Both these poets have been trans-
mitting waves of humanity. I believe
that DNA is sent to strands of DNA.
Via waves of cryptochrome, like
microwave signals.
My life and my poems have been about seeking
Feeling no meaning, we have been searching
For metre rhyme and meaning, but the Portuguese
Poet Fernando Pessoa said 'It is not necessary just
to live but to feel'
Footnote :
I TOOK A MASSIVE STROKE THAT ALMOST KILLED ME THEY SAY MY LEFT BRAIN WAS ERASED, SO I LIVE IN THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE AND IT'S FULL OF POETRY AND ART. THERE IS AN ENTITY GOD IN HERE. I DON'T BLASPHEME INTENTIONALLY. I AM LEFT PARALYSED DOWN THE RIGHT SIDE, UNABLE TO WALK, MUMBLING TALK, AS MY VOCAL CORDS ARE DAMAGED, AND I HAVE LOST MY LONG-TERM MEMORY.
Cryptochromes (from the Greek κρυπτός χρώμα, "hidden colour") are a class of flavoproteins found in plants and animals that are sensitive to blue light. They are involved in regulating circadian rhythms and sensing magnetic fields in various species. The name cryptochrome was proposed as a portmanteau combining the chromatic nature of the photoreceptor and the cryptogamic organisms on which many blue-light studies were carried out.[1][2]
The two genes, Cry1 and Cry2, code for the cryptochrome proteins CRY1 and CRY2.[3] In insects and plants, CRY1 regulates the
circadian clock in a light-dependent fashion,
whereas in mammals, CRY1 and CRY2 act
as light-independent inhibitors of CLOCK-BMAL1 components of the circadian clock.[4] In plants, blue-light photoreception can be used to cue developmental signals.[5] Besides chlorophylls, cryptochromes are the only proteins known to form photoinduced radical pairs in vivo.[6]
Cryptochromes have been the focus of several current efforts in optogenetics. Employing transfection, initial studies on yeast have capitalised on the potential of Cry2 heterodimerisation to control cellular processes, including gene expression, by light.
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