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Aphantasia and Dreams

Hi everyone,

I have discovered i have Aphantasia, but i have very vivid lucid dreams. For many years, when i was younger my lucid dreams were in the darkness but i read something somewhere in my 20's which told me to do 'vision on' as a command in my dream. Since then my visualisations have been strong and vivid. In waking life, i cant visualise as such but remember the feelings of the dreams.

I made a short film using AI as a bit of memory therapy. Hope you like it. All content is AI generated but the story is human.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNzA7UpJATw

Enjoy!

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Myra Sontheimer
on August 15, 2025

Love the video. I have visual dreams as well. Some of my childhood “memories” are visual dreams. My family doesn’t remember these events, and it’s been a joke in my family that I have two lives. The dreams feel like something that happened to me in my childhood. Most of my childhood memories are directly related to a photograph I have seen repeatedly. Still not a visual memory, but easily described verbally and placed on a timeline.

gregory coghlan
on September 9, 2025

I read somewhere that one way to tell if you are dreaming is whether or not you can actually read something in your dreams – the thought being that you can ‘understand’ what you read (in context of the dream) but can not actually read. I know that I have never been able to read anything in my dreams and that usually wakes me up

Jamie Mason
on August 16, 2025

I’m aphantasic and also had lucid dreaming all my life. That is until I started taking a sleep cocktail of supplements to help with middle-age sleep deprivation. (Magnesium-Threonate, Apigenin, Tart Cherry Extract, Myo-Inositol, and Glycine)

I never minded the lucid dreaming. And we are talking about the same thing, right? Dreaming, but being aware the entire time that you are dreaming? I could even control/steer the dreams to some degree. I rarely had nightmares, because I could just stop them or steer them off the scary stuff.

Something in that sleep cocktail pulled the plug on the lucid dreaming. I don’t really miss it. I sleep more deeply, but I do have the occasional nightmare now.

Jamie Mason
on August 16, 2025

I’m aphantasic and also had lucid dreaming all my life. That is until I started taking a sleep cocktail of supplements to help with middle-age sleep deprivation. (Magnesium-Threonate, Apigenin, Tart Cherry Extract, Myo-Inositol, and Glycine)

I never minded the lucid dreaming. And we are talking about the same thing, right? Dreaming, but being aware the entire time that you are dreaming? I could even control/steer the dreams to some degree. I rarely had nightmares, because I could just stop them or steer them off the scary stuff.

Something in that sleep cocktail pulled the plug on the lucid dreaming. I don’t really miss it. I sleep more deeply, but I do have the occasional nightmare now.

Eric Johnson
on September 7, 2025

Some years ago, I went through a period for a while where whenever I read something like a sign or a news article in a dream, I would read it a second time. While the first reading made sense as far as the dream was concerned, the second reading was always gibberish. Often, the letters in the second reading did not even resemble our alphabet at all.