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Dream. Or picture anything from memory.
I have an idea in my mind, but it’s not a picture or video like most people have. It’s just very difficult to “see” something.
More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Interesting that a few of the notable known people with it identified are authors. I'm not super familiar with them, but I wonder if it leads to writing more detailed descriptions which can help their written works be more memorable.
Personally (I have this) I tend to forget to write any visual descriptions at all and focus on other senses that I can imagine. Sound, smell, feeling, etc. Also character drama and development
I got so mad trying to read Lord of the Rings because it was just pages and pages of descriptions that were completely useless to me 😂
Reads like you have aphantasia
For most of my life I slept like a log for eight hours straight and basically never had dreams. Then recently-ish I botched my day routine beyond repair and discovered that I do dream when in light sleep, namely when falling asleep again after having woken up. Combined with drinking too much alcohol sometimes, this gives me shittiest completely absurd dreams of no value, just confusion and a very unpleasant feeling. Even when a dream is nice, I then wake up remembering I have my daily grind to look forward to. I'll much rather go back to no dreams.
Interesting approach. I like dreams as they're stupid little processed version of what I've been preoccupied with and what I've lived recently.
I can see the appeal of no dreams as you've put it. Same what I think of lucid dreaming. I just know I'll start cramming work in there too.
I managed to fix the routine a bit in the past week or so, and had some great nights of sleep, uninterrupted and unmarred by dreams. Feels pretty nice.
I can do a bit of lucid dreaming, in that after waking up and falling asleep again, I'm often aware that I'm dreaming — but full control and consciousness eluded me so far, it's more like the mind racing with random thoughts in half-sleep. So haven't gained anything from it either (and don't quite think I want to).