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I've always been one degree of separation away from Neil Gaiman. I have friends who have introduced me to him, other friends who tend his Wisconsin house for him, and in 2013 another arranged a small show at the Bryant-Lake Bowl in Minneapolis with John Hodgman, John Moe, Gaiman, and some others.

After reading this article in Vulture, I guess it's probably just as well I was no closer.
https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html

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"when aphantasics were asked to imagine seeing an image on one side of their field of view, they showed more activity on that same side of their brain, whereas the control group showed more activation on the opposite side. “That in itself suggests a different wiring in the brain of aphantasics,” Pearson says. How exactly that wiring differs, though, is still unknown."
https://www.science.org/content/article/people-who-can-t-picture-images-their-mind-s-eye-still-represent-them-their-brains
#Science #Aphantasia #brain