[supertofu]

Do people with aphantasia daydream? How does it work? What about drawing?

When I was a kid I would spend hours constructing elaborate daydream worlds and plot lines. They were so vivid that I could have drawn them if asked.

[scruple]

Nope, no daydreams here. And I cannot draw, though I am trying to learn (but it's hard to find time with young children), but that doesn't mean much. Famously, at least one of the people who started Pixar is an aphantasiac and, when they ran a survey of animators, IIRC, quite a few of them reported back that they also had/have it.

[srcreigh]

Hello. For me it's monologue (inner dialogue) or vague/shadowy fleeting images. Or singing songs to myself. I can rarely keep an image in mind for more than a moment, and it's always mostly colorless, not detailed.

[supertofu]

Fascinating!

While my mind is VERY visual, I have horrible music recall and music doesn't come naturally to me at all.

[nimos]

I don't daydream but I "self-narrate" - probably to a fault.

Like I'm not seeing anything. I'm just sort of writing a novel where I'm the main character if that makes sense?

It's similar to how I remember things.

[khazhoux]

I daydream, I suppose -- just not in clear imagery.

I can actually draw really well, better than most people. But not super elaborate scenes. And I know that if I could actually visualize, it would be helping me a lot.

I also have excellent musical/audio memory. I can hear back songs almost perfectly in my head, in the right key and in full detail.

[jamiek88]

I’ve never come across someone who also claims to be able to reproduce songs perfectly in their head. I can do this. It’s mostly involuntary though. I can’t pick and choose which songs I ‘record’ onto my brain.