@meganobrien77 · Joined May 2026
On “Do you dream visually?”
I have aphantasia but have vivid dreams. I love dreaming and the time just between sleep and wake where I can recall the images.
On “Telling Children That You Can't Visualize Their Childhood”
Also, I just questioned my two teen boys. Turns out, they both have aphantasia. They were imaging the Apple and describing the Apple, zooming in on the stem…but then revealed they actually see black.
On “Telling Children That You Can't Visualize Their Childhood”
I probably wouldn’t tell my teens that I have no visual memories of my childhood (implying I don’t of their childhood either). I would say I have great memories. (I can’t can’t physically see it)
On “Do you see black or nothing with your eyes closed?”
Black with whatever my physical rods and cones ar doing. Like reading this text, I close my eyes and get lines of back and white like a negative. Areas of white, yellow, red all depend on what my eyes were physically handling. If I stay closed, It will fade to black. If extreme darkness, I can even make out individual red/green rods or cones, they look like like Marvin the martians.
On “Rewiring How I Work & Learn as a Multisensory Aphantasic — I Built a Sense-by-Sense Scoring System to Find My Gaps & Superpowers”
Your numbers feel pretty aligned with how I’d score myself. Fully offline (0–2/10): Visual imagery, sound, smell, taste, touch, episodic memory Partial (3–5/10): Circadian/body clock Online (6–10/10): Inner voice, spatial navigation, kinesthetic movement, semantic/logical thinking, time/planning, interoception (body awareness), emotional processing I do not have an issue imaging how other people feel though. I am strongly empathic and feel how they feel in the moment. I can also imagine how something would feel. But nothing on hearing imagines sounds, seeing imagined images etc.