Tamra Speakman

Yeah I would be the opposite of this. I am a total aphant from birth as far as I know and have pretty extreme sensory sensitivity, non-diagnosed SPD/SMD. 36 AQ and similar results on neurodivergent tests I have taken online. I can sense some movement spatial in minds eye and that is it. I do not think I even dream in images but rarely remember them. I hear only my own voice in my head (constantly lol). I used to say I'm HSP but honestly I think that much of HSP is really SPD, cant say I agree with all they came up with on HSP. I think Elaine Aron has a very poor understanding of neurodiversity, autism, and SPD. Most of my sensory processing issues are from childhood and then worsened by CNS disease. My sensitivity to lights and visual things is overwhelming but also to sounds, & movement. I have a hx of seizures and bright lights especially fluorescent were huge trigger and still bother me even though no seizures in 15+ years. Misophonia, misokinesia, plus crowds/people and more. I am also sensitive to odors/scents and that is heightened by MCAS and allergies. So I do wonder how many like Paul and I are out there. I definitely do NOT have less sensory overwhelm but more. 

For the most part it seems like I dream the same way I imagine. Via thoughts, words, feelings, emotions, processes, actions, not images. That said I have had some very vivid visual black and white dreams that were scary to me. I overall do not rememeber a lot of dreams.

I think overall for me this is the wrong question. I do not see it as a conditon or disability to cure but just a neurodivergence. A different way of thinking. I do agree however that if it is acquired from injury or trauma then it could change if healing for that issue was obtained. So that points to the deeper need to ask, is this aquired or something one is born with? Or perhaps even acquired in utero.?. Also could be both depending on the individual. For me it seems as if it has always been how I process information. Always part of my normal. Never really a problem just interestingly different. Those who process in a hyperphantasia way do not normally try to "cure" it. So why would I.