I do! My dreams are typically very surreal and weird, things that would make the backrooms seem comfortable. Everything in the dream looks as real as it does in real life, too. I attribute this to me seemingly having hyperphantasia (on that famous "imagine an apple" graph, I am a 1, an apple in my head looks exactly as an apple does in real life). Last night I had this dream I was some kind of gigantic were-lobster that had wings. I couldn't fly very far because my wings were like smallish dragonfly wings, but it was a fun (albeit weird) experience.
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Sorry for the necro on this - but I like to read past threads and see if I pick up new information.
It turns out I can't see an apple in my mind, not exactly. There is a very brief moment where an apple manifests for like a single frame, but the image is gone the next tick.
I believe this classifies as aphantasia. Interestingly, the "concept" of the apple remains. I can "feel" the entirety of what the apple is, just not see it.
At the same time, when I recall strings of text or numbers it is always a image of when I saw it. I also have an internal monolog that others don't. Brains am weird man
Hey no worries! I don't mind at all! 😃
That's really strange actually! Almost like a 3D model which is in the framebuffer for a split moment, but then kind of disappears... This is the first time I've heard of this and I can't begin to understand the neurology of it but I appreciate reading your story! When you say that you feel the entirety of what the apple is, do you mean you can "feel" it in a tactile sense, or like you feel the presence of an apple that's not there anymore?
I didn't really think about it before, but yes, the tactile sensation of its smooth but clearly not artificially smooth surface is there. The apple isn't in one piece like this. It's fragmented but connected (seemingly like everything else in my memory). When I think of an apple, the shape, the various red shades, surface feel, crispness, smell and flavor of a bite, as well as the visual guidance of a knife to cut into it all manifest at nearly the same time.
And yes, that's exactly how I would describe it like a framebuffer. Almost as fast too, a single frame where an image of an apple sits on a table then the rest of my processing continues.
For whatever reason, computer science and architecture has helped me explain this as sort of a populated instance of class Apple. This instance sits in hard storage, and retrieves it when I get apple from main memory.
But that's not just all. Apple is a fruit, so I also get information about the fruit object, and fruits connected to it too, in real time.
I have ADHD, so I know my brain is physically wired differently. I suspect it's related to the "cobweb" of thoughts that is normally present.