LeeAnna Khavinson

I'm not sure I hear sound or see images in my dreams. Prior to finding out about aphantasia, I always thought I did but I am not able to visually recall anything from my dreams when I wake even if I remember the dream so it's hard to know if I'm reliving the visual experience or just a mental one similar to my actual memories. I just have the knowledge that I saw them and I'm not sure if anything is in color if I do see it because I don't remember the color of anything.

For me it's exactly the same. I can read a book and sense the motion of the scenes. Like very basic outlines but nothing is in color. No paper no pencil. I don't even see the blackness people talk about unless my eyes are closed. But a star I can imagine tracing in my head with eyes open. And if I imagine a rising sun. I understand a sun is round and can imagine the basic horizon as a line. Nothing else. It has been very jarring for me to realize I have thus condition only because I wish I could see my loved ones who have passed on .