I’m able to do it if I’m half asleep. Problem is i get so excited at my ability to create anything I want in amazing detail that I wake back up
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Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
As someone with full auditory and visual Aphantasia. This is extremely fucked up and ableist. (I am honestly only half joking this is very ableist either way)
I can’t rotate cows in my head. I can’t even hear cows in my head.
The cops still can’t stop be tho.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
getFrog@piefed.social 1 day ago
I can’t even hear cows in my head.
I’m curious about that part. Does that mean you also don’t get that weird thing where you hear like, people chattering/ music/ something falling down just before you fall asleep? Or are dreams/half-asleep hallucinations not affected by aphantasia?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 day ago
you hear like, people chattering/ music/ something falling down just before you fall asleep?
What the hell are you on about??
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Probably Hypnogogic hallucination, which is a normal and common transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep characterized by vivid hallucinations incorporating any/all senses.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I didn’t even know that was a thing. That’s really cool. I’ve never experienced that
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have this too. Music, people, simulated falling, stuff like that right before I fall asleep. I always thought this was common?
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nope. I don’t think that’s common at all. Maybe the occasional monkey reflex where my body thinks I’m gonna fall off a tree and yanks me awake, but that’s it.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yea if you’re posses by a demon maybe /jk
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Never experienced it and never heard anyone else mention it before.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Never had this. I eather fall asleep and wake up later. Or I’m getting half-awake dreams, where I’m not I’m still a bit in control at first, but then lose control. (I know I’m dreaming, I just can’t steer it
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Exploding Head Syndrome maybe? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mayhaps
De_Narm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wait, what? Is that something people experience?
getFrog@piefed.social 1 day ago
.. I think so? Never questioned it honestly, guess I’ll have to do some research now haha
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Auditory hallucinations aren’t as common as you seem to think haha. I have them too sometimes.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Or is it that auditory hallucinations are strongly associated (not clinically, just the way they are always talked about) with bad mental health problems like schizophrenia, which makes them taboo, so people choose not to talk about them, even to doctors?
I get auditory, gustatory, and olfactory hallucinations all the time, due to chronic headache and migraines. Wish I got visual ones too, just for the variety, but alas. I hate peanut butter so so much (my most common hallucination is the smell or taste of peanut butter). My auditory hallucinations aren’t usually voices talking, though, they tend to be cats meowing or chickens yelling, because that’s what I hear most frequently in my daily life, so that’s what I’m trained to listen for.
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Wow that sounds like it sucks, though the cats and chickens is kinda funny :) I usually hallucinate loud noises like something falling or a door slamming or something.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
The only thing I’d classify as that is “feeling” like I hear far-away inaudible voices.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would like to know more
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Apparently dreams aren’t necessarily affected by aphantasia.
I feel like when I do have dreams they are extremely vivid and real because I am seeing my thoughts which isn’t normal.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
There’s also exploding head syndrome. That one’s a real bitch
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I have full apantasia audio and visual. I can still dream. I know I can and I know I see things and hear things in my dream. But when I wake up I can’t recall any visual or audio.
I tried teaching myself the lucid dream at one point and all it did was when I realized I was in a dream. Everything goes away. Exactly as if I’m awake. It’s a very bizarre feeling. It also causes my fight or flight instinct to kick in real hard and gives me panic attacks. So I kind of stop doing that. Ain’t fun and very unpleasant very weird. Far worse than waking up with sleep paralysis I must say.
Sabata11792@ani.social 1 day ago
Sounds like you will need to rotate a real cow while in international waters.
pseudo@jlai.lu 21 hours ago
Well planning all this and executing it you won’t have time to be bored.
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Is this ableist? Doesn’t seem prejudicial at all. /g
pseudo@jlai.lu 21 hours ago
What does /g means?
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, it isn’t.
Matty_r@programming.dev 1 day ago
How/when did you discover this?
user_name@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not OP but also have aphantasia.
I discovered it when I was…23? My whole life I figured people were saying “picture this…” figuratively and it didn’t even occur to me that it could be otherwise because it was self-evidently impossible to me to “see” something until I learned the word “aphantasia” and that the inability to visualize is not considered the norm/not universal.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah took me 36 years.
It takes actually knowing that people actually see images to know that you cannot do that.
Counting sheep never made true sense to me. How is keeping a tally of “imaginary” sheep jumping over an “imaginary” fence supposed to help me fall asleep?
Makes sense when you realize people do it to stop their brains from randomly sending themselves other imaginary that’s going to keep them up. It’s like choosing to turn on the TV to something you could fall asleep to is my understanding.
user_name@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, with that one in particular I thhough everybody was just beating a dead horse with the same joke on “counting sleep.”
fartographer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
100% of theoretical physicists would agree that cows are spheres. You could do mental math in which you calculate changes to the cardinality of the distributed mass.
It should look something like this: 0⁰
Fuck, it’s the police!
NABDad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can hear cows in my head, but seriously it’s not that great. All they say all day long is, “kill them. Kill them all.”
It’s kind of monotonous.
Saapas@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Lol if they had said that you can count your fingers then we’d have someone in here without arms saying how ableist the tweet was
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How dare you, some people are mute and can’t say!
M137@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Hard to write without fingers too. Doable but harder, very abelist again!!
0ops@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Some people are in a coma. Just don’t do anything!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Everyone must cut out their own tongues and chop off their hands and feet, for inclusivity!