Aphantasia and Dreams

July 5, 20251 min readByStephen Ash

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.

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Eric MacDonald•recently

I am aphantasic and so far as I know I have never dreamt. My wife used to ask me about my dreams, but I never had a dream that I could speak about.

Jamie Mason•recently

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.

Myra Sontheimer•recently

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.