You’re like one of my friends. I’m on the extreme end with absolutely no sense memory, Aphantasia, and while I do dream it’s without any imagined senses either. I do have an inner monologue but it’s silent. I realise that makes absolutely no sense written out. I think in sentences yet still silent 🤷.
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farmgineer@nord.pub 6 days ago
I have aphantasia and no inner monologue that I can “hear”, either.
My dreams are, as best as I can tell, very vivid images, though. I’ve always assumed it meant that the hardware exists in my brain and works, but the wiring isn’t connected.
BurgerBaron@quokk.au 6 days ago
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 days ago
your local admin has disabled your graphics card.
for what it’s worth, I have heard of people curing their aphantasia by microdosing mind altering drugs like psilocybin or LSD.
it’s a risk to take it at all, but if it’s something you desperately want to experience it might prove useful.
FYI, don’t try to DIY. find someone with experience that you 200% trust. they are, after all, going to be caring for you while you’re under the influence.
I’ve done mushrooms, LSD, and DMT with some fairly high dosages multiple times, no luck personally. It’s black void no matter what. Open eyes I get some minor hallucinations like text warping. DMT and LSD, spacial warping.
farmgineer@nord.pub 6 days ago
I used my share of substances when younger and nothing doing. I also don’t think it’s a thing to be “cured”. I don’t particularly want all that shit going on in my head.