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by japostoles
981 days ago
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Minus the last couple sentences, I would describe things the same way you did in terms of visualizing, and have experienced all those things. Along the same lines as the young woman you're experiencing, I used to get out of body experiences/sleep paralysis/waking dreams (pick a label) nightly when I was in my 20s, and I would see shadows and outlines of what would seem like energies. That was mostly non-visual and interpretive, which feels more like my minds-eye than a dream. Not to go off topic, but ever try communicating with the shy woman? |
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The first time I saw her I did go search around the house in case I had a "homeless person living in a cupboard" scenario.
I've never experienced sleep paralysis, thankfully, even when working on being able to dream lucidly.
On the topic of aphantasia, I would expect sleep paralysis and any visual hallucinations to be on the dreaming/near to dreaming side of the fence since that circuitry seems to work for people with aphantasia as far as I can determine. If I try to think of specific memories involving people I am very close to I can get a flash of something that goes away before I'm even really aware of it that seems to be in the side channel people talk of. It doesn't seem to work for anything not emotionally connected, and only rarely.
The lady that has visited me was felt completely different. Thinking back, I have also been able to see auras, and just proved to myself that I still have that ability. It might be a visual abnormality or something, though. If I was actually visualizing, it was an overlay and not on a side channel.