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Aphantasia is the inability to create mental imagery.

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Aphantasia and sleep (lemmy.world)

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Hi all. I'm interested to know how many of us have a serious sleep issue. So far I haven't found much of a unifying thread between aphantasics, other than that we're very familiar with what the back of our eyelids look like! But one common thing I have heard over the years is a sleep issue.

I have chronic insomnia. Interested to hear back from others.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can sleep just fine, but my dreams are strange. Visual impressions are always blurry and unstable and lack detail. It seems that even my sub concsious can not create realistic pictures in my mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, finding out there's rungs to this ladder. I can't visualise for shit but my dreams are very, very vivid and realistic. When running away from something I have those classic dreamlegs that don't seem to work properly; but when I have to fight in a dream it's all systems go, and had a few dreams where striking was very effective and almost Matrix-like.

Would love to learn how to lucid dream, I've had a couple of clear lucid moments of "hey, this is MY dream, I do what I want". But one of the keys to lucid dreaming is remembering it in the first place... and with that comes remembering all the horrible, traumatic dreams that our subconscious keeps from us for good reason.