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pohl 4 hours ago

What’s it like to dream while you’re sleeping? Do you ever “see” anything then?

godshatter 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I can't visualize at all when awake, but I have been into lucid dreaming in my past and my dreams were visual and more detailed than real life (no bad lenses for the light to go through, I guess). I can also visualize a little bit when on either edge of sleep. I've been noticing that the occasional images that I see in that state are becoming more colorful and detailed. I'm hoping that means actual phantasia in my future, but that's probably just wishful thinking.

I should add that the only things I've ever been able to see when fully awake that didn't come through my retinas are auras (I went through a "learn to read auras" phase a long time ago) and ghosts. Or at least things that I'm assuming aren't actually real, like images of a friend who died before I knew about it and a woman who watched me watch TV for a few weeks. So this might mean that I'm not a complete aphant, or it might mean (based on this article) that sometimes those brain regions/processes can still align for me occasionally.

_ink_ 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not GP, but also fully aphant: yes, I have visual dreams. I is very hard for me, to tell whether I also hear things in my dreams, but I think yes. For other senses, I am quite sure that I don't experience them while dreaming.

vidarh an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Same here. The fact that I see things in my dreams is one of the reasons I feel I can know for certain I don't see things when I "imagine" things.

Akronymus 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

that made me realize I never once thought of whether I was hearing stuff in my dreams.

nhinck3 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I sometimes experience dreams when I go back to sleep repeatedly, but in all normal circumstances it is nothing

chiefgeek 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I do see images when I dream. It can get pretty immersive. Brains are wild.