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Anauralia and Anendophasia

"In the silent tenebrous abyss, feelings ebb and flow. Thoughts swim like fishes, in the eternal depth below the surface of my mind, where knowing likes to grow " - Impossible Language . The vocabulary for mental perception is expanding. It is satisfying to see the  key is holding out as science works to categorize this new frontier: Aphantasia (Vision/Eye) "The inability to form mental images of real or imaginary people, places, or things." Alexithymia (Emotion/Heart) "Alexithymia is when a person has difficulty experiencing, identifying, and expressing emotions." Anauralia (Sound/Ear) "Anauralia is the phenomenon of an absence of auditory sensory imagery - not hearing anything in one's inner ear" We can now add; Anendophasia (Speech/Voicebox) "Recent research introduces 'anendophasia' as a term for the absence of inner speech, revealing that not everyone experiences internal dialogue. The study compared adults with low and hig