Comment by LoganDark
17 hours ago
Really? I heard it's not that uncommon for people with aphantasia to still have visual dreams, even if they cannot visualize while awake. I don't think I've seen claims of the inverse.
17 hours ago
Really? I heard it's not that uncommon for people with aphantasia to still have visual dreams, even if they cannot visualize while awake. I don't think I've seen claims of the inverse.
I've seen claims that the dreams are less visually complex. However the other parts still stand, is a a controlled dream really an involuntary process? Is the visualization process when you close your eyes and before you go to sleep "involuntary" in the same ways dreams are "involuntary".
I don't know how visually complex phantasic dreams are, but my dreams as an aphantasic person are sensually just like real life.
Half the time my dreams are just weird perversions of childhood homes or schools or so on. Hybrids of different places and times. Not particularly complex, just familiar. Apparently it's pretty common.
> Is the visualization process when you close your eyes and before you go to sleep "involuntary" in the same ways dreams are "involuntary".
It's called hypnagogia, and is indeed involuntary.