I see no images while awake eyes closed or not but I met The Beastie Boys in a truck bed camper in the desert outside Mesa AZ. They were 4 inches tall. I think it's very possible that hallucinogens allow neural connections that we don't normally make. I also can't seem to look to the future deliberately. I have sudden involuntary memories or flashes of possible future outcomes. Oddly though, I'm more than pretty good at predicting logical outcomes to other people's decisions. Weird world man and brains are the weirdest.

Hi, I'm 60 and also did a lot of psychedelic substances in the early 1980s, so I can relate. I only recently found out that aphantasy is a "thing". I have always wondered why the acid etc. never worked for me like my friends regarding optical hallucinations. It was never more than slight perspective shifts when moving my hand and looking at it. Maybe steps having slightly different heights, small things like that. Very rarely, I had acoustic hallucinations. The effects were mainly different thought possible thought processes, but I was always able to bring myself back to HERE & NOW. As it was so long ago and many drugs back, I don't remember much very clearly, but as I have recently learned, this may also be connected to aphantasy. I have only rudimental autobiographical memories, the earliest from the age of about 7. Also I have great trouble visualising my possible future. As I have been in a perpetual HERE&NOW for my whole life, I have always wondered why so many people make such a "to do" about the concept. I've always felt to be the worst possible witness in regards to having to describe a person. My other sense remembering is also quasi non-existent. As you say luckily pain is also affected. Thanks for your insights. I believe our drug induced sensory experiences were similarly bland.

Hey! Sounds like you have some fun stories to tell! I don’t have any experience with any psychedelics besides 5MeO-DMT. I inhaled a heroic hit, braced myself to meet God, and…nothing. I blacked out completely for 10 minutes straight. I fully attribute this to aphantasia (which I had never heard of at the time). That 10 minutes that I spent with zero conscious experience or memory is usually when visualizers are having a colorful and vivid heart-to-heart with Jesus, Anubis, or whatever other take-your-pick deity deigns to show up. My experience was a void. Super bummer.

I also have many questions, I am 45 years old and until now I didn't know how people imagined. I thought it was a metaphor. I haven't tried drugs, but I wouldn't mind trying them if I know I can images. My mother passed away a few years ago, and I cannot see her face except through photos. I only have one description in my brain. I think it affects me in my personal relationships. Well, I lose contact because I don't imagine them with a person who has fantasy.

I see no images while awake eyes closed or not but I met The Beastie Boys in a truck bed camper in the desert outside Mesa AZ. They were 4 inches tall. I think it's very possible that hallucinogens allow neural connections that we don't normally make. I also can't seem to look to the future deliberately. I have sudden involuntary memories or flashes of possible future outcomes. Oddly though, I'm more than pretty good at predicting logical outcomes to other people's decisions. Weird world man and brains are the weirdest.

Hi, I'm 60 and also did a lot of psychedelic substances in the early 1980s, so I can relate. I only recently found out that aphantasy is a "thing". I have always wondered why the acid etc. never worked for me like my friends regarding optical hallucinations. It was never more than slight perspective shifts when moving my hand and looking at it. Maybe steps having slightly different heights, small things like that. Very rarely, I had acoustic hallucinations. The effects were mainly different thought possible thought processes, but I was always able to bring myself back to HERE & NOW. As it was so long ago and many drugs back, I don't remember much very clearly, but as I have recently learned, this may also be connected to aphantasy. I have only rudimental autobiographical memories, the earliest from the age of about 7. Also I have great trouble visualising my possible future. As I have been in a perpetual HERE&NOW for my whole life, I have always wondered why so many people make such a "to do" about the concept. I've always felt to be the worst possible witness in regards to having to describe a person. My other sense remembering is also quasi non-existent. As you say luckily pain is also affected. Thanks for your insights. I believe our drug induced sensory experiences were similarly bland.

Hey! Sounds like you have some fun stories to tell! I don’t have any experience with any psychedelics besides 5MeO-DMT. I inhaled a heroic hit, braced myself to meet God, and…nothing. I blacked out completely for 10 minutes straight. I fully attribute this to aphantasia (which I had never heard of at the time). That 10 minutes that I spent with zero conscious experience or memory is usually when visualizers are having a colorful and vivid heart-to-heart with Jesus, Anubis, or whatever other take-your-pick deity deigns to show up. My experience was a void. Super bummer.

I also have many questions, I am 45 years old and until now I didn't know how people imagined. I thought it was a metaphor. I haven't tried drugs, but I wouldn't mind trying them if I know I can images. My mother passed away a few years ago, and I cannot see her face except through photos. I only have one description in my brain. I think it affects me in my personal relationships. Well, I lose contact because I don't imagine them with a person who has fantasy.