Christof Koch was the second neuroscientist to make me stop and wonder at my own mind. He said, “The world is transcendent and beautiful, and consciousness is a fundamental aspect of the ...

That's when they thought about having Wyll go through ceremorphosis and turn into a Mind Flayer (aka Illithid). Since Illithid souls are kind of a mystery in D&D, this looked like a decent loophole.

But there are some people who simply cannot form such mental images. They have a condition known as aphantasia, or “mind blindness”—it’s rare, and only affects about 4 percent of the ...