The Imagination Spectrum.
Most people see something. Some see nothing at all.
Others can rotate it, smell it, taste it. You might have spent years assuming everyone's mind worked like yours. It doesn't. Welcome to The Phantasia Project.
Everything in one place.
The Phantasia Project is an open information hub for the full imagination spectrum - built because this stuff is genuinely hard to find in one place, and even harder to explain to someone who's never thought about it.
Where do you land?
Drag the slider to explore the spectrum - from total darkness to photorealistic vision. Then take the full test to find your real position.
The spectrum tells you
how vivid. Not where.
Everything above - the scale from aphantasia to hyperphantasia, the test, the live results - measures a single dimension of mental imagery. But in 2024, researchers discovered there's a second, completely independent dimension that science had been overlooking entirely.
Researchers at the University of Oxford and University of Liverpool confirmed in 2024 that some people project their mental images into their actual visual field - overlaid on the world in front of them, like augmented reality. They named this ability prophantasia. It's independent of vividness, unmeasured by any standard test, and it might explain why some people consistently score lower on the VVIQ than their imagery experience deserves.