Hi Steven,   Your pondering of Dreaming in relation to Aphantasia is interesting and something I have been working with seriously for over 30 years. I have a Mentor who has me journal my thoughts and feelings every hour to track my own Consciousness. This also includes keeping a Dream Journal along with note taking during waking states. What I discovered is this-I cannot "recall" dreams like you state when it comes to visual memory. I can "remember" the storyline as if reading a book if I record notes. In order to do this though, I have to write the dream right as I am waking-even better details if I am not quite fully awake. I keep a pen and paper next to the bed and write in the dark (took a little practice for this). Once I am "awake" and fully anchored to waking reality, the dream disappears completely. Having the notes though allows me to recall the meaning or gist of the dream though there are not visual clues or memory to guide this. This technique has "opened" access to the altered states of Consciousness found within the experience of dreaming.   I have also found that psychedelics are useful in allowing me to "see" with my eyes closed. My experiences with purposeful usage such as with Ayahuasca Ceremonies led me to return to academia and get a Master in Transpersonal Psychology where I wrote about "Unity Consciousness". This is where people in a group have the same vision or insight. If you have never participated in such a thing, I highly recommend it! Have a Great Day!

You could be right as this boils down to perception, I recall my dreams exceptionally rarely, only one dream this year so far and it was not visual in nature just my typical knowledge of events. I however do recall when I was much younger specifically that I had what at the time felt like visual dreams. The images did not persist after waking but the certainty that they were visual in nature in the dream at that time was tangible in a very profound way, I can still recall the events of those dreams even long after the images were gone and that knowing that there was in that time an actual visual image is something I can only express verbally now as being certain of in that moment at least. To determine whether or not that is true would be problematic at best due to the complexity and cost of doing such a study on even a few individuals. It's one of those things you have to take on a certain amount of faith, and as there is no current reason of scientific merit that I'm aware of which would depend on establishing for certain whether or not this was occurring so I find it highly unlikely that anything like that will be done anytime soon.

Hi Steven,  I "see" in my dreams. I remember enough when I wake up. So I would say that in my dreams, I do not have aphantasia, it is as if I am actually seeing things like in real life. I am living the experience. In real life, I see my surroundings, I just can't see anything with my eyes closed. It gives me hope that if I dont have aphantasia in my dreams that someday I could be rid of it in my waking life. That would help me soooo much with my memory, remembering things, and not getting lost. People say this isnt a disability, but I figure my life would be so much easier if I could picture things because that would help me remember and might improve the quality of my life bu 33%! 

Hi Steven,   Your pondering of Dreaming in relation to Aphantasia is interesting and something I have been working with seriously for over 30 years. I have a Mentor who has me journal my thoughts and feelings every hour to track my own Consciousness. This also includes keeping a Dream Journal along with note taking during waking states. What I discovered is this-I cannot "recall" dreams like you state when it comes to visual memory. I can "remember" the storyline as if reading a book if I record notes. In order to do this though, I have to write the dream right as I am waking-even better details if I am not quite fully awake. I keep a pen and paper next to the bed and write in the dark (took a little practice for this). Once I am "awake" and fully anchored to waking reality, the dream disappears completely. Having the notes though allows me to recall the meaning or gist of the dream though there are not visual clues or memory to guide this. This technique has "opened" access to the altered states of Consciousness found within the experience of dreaming.   I have also found that psychedelics are useful in allowing me to "see" with my eyes closed. My experiences with purposeful usage such as with Ayahuasca Ceremonies led me to return to academia and get a Master in Transpersonal Psychology where I wrote about "Unity Consciousness". This is where people in a group have the same vision or insight. If you have never participated in such a thing, I highly recommend it! Have a Great Day!

You could be right as this boils down to perception, I recall my dreams exceptionally rarely, only one dream this year so far and it was not visual in nature just my typical knowledge of events. I however do recall when I was much younger specifically that I had what at the time felt like visual dreams. The images did not persist after waking but the certainty that they were visual in nature in the dream at that time was tangible in a very profound way, I can still recall the events of those dreams even long after the images were gone and that knowing that there was in that time an actual visual image is something I can only express verbally now as being certain of in that moment at least. To determine whether or not that is true would be problematic at best due to the complexity and cost of doing such a study on even a few individuals. It's one of those things you have to take on a certain amount of faith, and as there is no current reason of scientific merit that I'm aware of which would depend on establishing for certain whether or not this was occurring so I find it highly unlikely that anything like that will be done anytime soon.

Hi Steven,  I "see" in my dreams. I remember enough when I wake up. So I would say that in my dreams, I do not have aphantasia, it is as if I am actually seeing things like in real life. I am living the experience. In real life, I see my surroundings, I just can't see anything with my eyes closed. It gives me hope that if I dont have aphantasia in my dreams that someday I could be rid of it in my waking life. That would help me soooo much with my memory, remembering things, and not getting lost. People say this isnt a disability, but I figure my life would be so much easier if I could picture things because that would help me remember and might improve the quality of my life bu 33%!