Having aphantasia from the inner self against the world disallows the ability to abstract from it. You couldn’t reflect your actions against the world, and through it, with aphantasia. I’m not saying everyone with Cognitive Dissonance has aphantasia of the self, but that a subset cannot realize how their CogDis affects them and those around them. Self Reflection, and self realization, are highly complex abstractions CogDis folks generally do not partake.
I’m saying a subset cannot. You are not part of that subset, because you have formed an inner self, and you can abstract yourself from that subset, and other folks that cannot self-realize, therefore self-reflect.
E.g. If I ask you what: how would you feel if you had not had breakfast yesterday?
That’s my exact thesis. You have demonstrated you have an inner self. And that it is different from others. But there are also folks that do not conceptualize their inner self is different from others. And that that self affects others.