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Papers about aphantasia and mental imagery, with summaries in plain words. The summaries are generated by AI and may contain errors.
Bilzer and Monzel · Vision
In an online survey, 226 adults rated how vivid their imagery is for sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, body sensation and emotion, when imagining on purpose and in recent dreams; 158 repeated it four weeks later. Ratings for each sense were linked across waking imagery and dreams, but ratings were more closely linked within each state than across them, so the two are related but partly separate. Dreams felt more emotional, while sound, smell, taste and touch were weaker in dreams. The link between waking and dream imagery was stronger in people who often recall dreams or have lucid dreams.
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