That was so weird…that’s the first time in my life I’ve had dreams where I instead of physically seeing things I audibly heard things and felt things. So I made out what was going on in the dream by what I was hearing and feeling instead of what I was seeing. Like I was blind…So bizarre. Most of them were unpleasant. Anyone else ever had a dream like this?
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I had dark dreams but also with no sound. Only dark and were few
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They weren’t even dark…idk how to describe it there was just nothing.
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It’s debatable whether I have dreams with images .I don’t believe I do but don’t exclude the possibility that the memory of the images might have quickly faded on waking. It would be interesting to see how clearly and for how long the recall of such images is in other posters here.
I have aphantasia which entails an inability to visualise although some/many, but not all, can see images in dreams. I posted a poll about this on an aphantasia facebook group. 114 visualised while dreaming , 31 didn’t and 19 weren’t sure.
Oh very interesting!! I read about that. I can’t even imagine what that’s like. I have always had vivid mental imagery, and like I said this was my first ever dream with no visuals whatsoever.
Could you describe a dream of yours to me?
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trigger warning The one of mine I had that I remember most clearly-I had several this morning but can’t remember any except this one-I was aware I was lying in bed, and there was a man with me, he was saying filthy and horrible things to me, I was lucid and was just in shock I was audibly hearing these things, I VERY RARELY audibly hear things in my dreams, and when I do it is like, one phrase not ALL the dream dialog and sound. I was vaguely aware of the sensation of my butt being penetrated by something & pain, but was still trying to figure out what the hell was going on and why I didn’t see anything and why I was hearing things. I heard the man’s breathing get heavier and heavier (insanely creepy by the way) and realized I was probably being raped. He finished eventually. At some point I realized I could move or speak or something (maybe I just moved bc I don’t remember hearing my own voice) but whatever I did pissed him off and he started cursing at me and beating my head. I again was vaguely aware of the pain of him hitting me, but it was like feeling the pain through a long tunnel. After that the dream ended.
Dreams like that are very disturbing to me. Because of them and other experiences I have this vague fear that as a kid I was drugged and then abused in that state and all these experiences are just those memories filtering back.
That can’t have been the case though because if I was a child, heck even an adolescent, the things I’ve experienced in my dreams/psychosis would have left physical damage that I would have noticed when not drugged.
It’s very hard to describe other than it’s a running narrative without visuals. More mind radio than mind cinema.
My dreams are very weird.
I can control them sometimes in great detail.
I can also wake up then go back to sleep and get back to the same dream multiple times and just continue it.
Sorry I meant could you tell me one of your dreams plot wise
I tend not to remember the fine details of my dreams. A frequent recurring theme involves getting lost. I am trawling through my notepad files.
- A regular theme of my recalled dreams is getting lost. This time it revolved around getting lost in NY while shopping with family and ending up wandering further and further from the city centre in the pouring rain. I was derealised and seemed to have lost time.
2)Had a strange dream last night which had me on the verge of tears when i woke up. Hard to recall specific details (I am like that with dreams -poor recall-sometimes it’s like i never dream) but what i do recall is being taunted by the voices of young children who knew my name and yet i had never met them before and panicking because i couldn’t find a toilet and was scared of getting lost .
3)I have just been woken up by this strange,disturbing dream.I do not normally
dream or if i do can not remember.First i was on this train with a lot of
other people going to visit people in hospital we are being guided by a man
but when i get off the train the other people and guide have disappeared.I
am in the downstairs of a building just walking about in a dress and
all these doctors and nurses are going back and forth.I go upstairs and i am
in this ward walking around like it is a perfectly natural thing to do
when this man comes running at me with a razor blade screaming at me and
starts slashing at me with a razor blade.A nurse notices and rushes and
takes the razor blade off the man saying’That’s so and so’s(can’t remember
actual name) razor blade ’ and goes.The man who has just slashed me grabs a
pillow and puts it over my face.There’s a struggle.Somehow i manage to grab
him by the throat and i am squeezing and squeezing and then i woke up.
4)Another dream in which i’m lost and the more disorientated/lost i was the more erratic i became. I go into a building for help but there is none and i struggle to get out because the doors i open are dead ends. Then i pass what seems to be a doss house which is on one level but there are rows of hospital beds and nurses.
5)This time i’m in some kind of hybrid between a house and a hospital. I go downstairs to the toilet and can’t find my way back to my bedroom. I’m frantically going from room/ward to room/ward. When asked I say I’m disorientated. Someone shows me a map of where my bedroom is and I say that I can’t read it.
Eventually someone finds me and takes me back to my bedroom but instead of being kind and supportive they have a go at me . I have a go back and say that at least when I’m angry I’m not anxious, then I woke up.
6)That i was going when younger with someone else to a competition for people with disabilities and i got separated from the other person and got lost. When i eventually arrive it’s to be questioned where i got to by the grown ups and to hear the other boys really angry because they lost(it was a team competition). Then i got really angry and hurt and started shouting that i too have a disability and it wasn’t on purpose. At that point i woke up.
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I do wonder like you if perhaps you just can’t recall the imagery because it’s impossible for you to recall the imagery because you can’t think of it to begin with. Like with the dream I had with no imagery, I had no idea what was going on and could only vaguely figure it out from the sounds and sensations but it sounds like in your dreams you had a clear idea of what was happening, knew what types of people were around, what sort of location you were in, etc.
At the same time, I think dreams and hallucinations are our brain confusing internal stimuli for external. So like instead of recognizing a thought as a thought, you audibly hear it, instead of recognizing a mental image as a mental image, you physically see it. With the absence of external sensory stimuli, internal sensory stimuli is what the brain believes the world is. So by that logic you definitely wouldn’t get dream imagery, bc if dream imagery is mental imagery your brain confuses as true visuals, and you can’t get mental imagery, then yeah no imagery in dreams. Seriously interesting to think about!!
If you can’t see them, they are your delusions you know. You need to trust your eyes and only the things it sees, no farther than that, special gift to human. Earth is twice as 6371 km and millions of things you have yet to explore. And NOW, think of that episode. Where are you? HELLO?
But I also have visual hallucinations and like I said this is the only dream I ever had w no imagery 
I can’t particularly trust my eyes all the time unfortunately
As intriguing as it would be to think that sometimes people’s faces really do go upside down or shrink at random in reality, I doubt that’s the case 
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Have you tried complaining it to nature?
I’m sorry I don’t really understand what you’re saying 
I learnt a lot from being outside. Hikes certainly help the mind from being free from delusions and negativity in a nutshell. Just my experience. 
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A lot of my dreams are pure thought at a preconscious level, so no images as such at all. Just words, words, words.
Oh ok I think I see what you were saying yes I love being outdoors, so long as the temp is fine 
My dream house is a cozy little log cabin in the woods.
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So interesting, I just saw another person on here post that was their experience too, I wonder how common this is in those w sz? Also I wonder do you or anyone else w this have visual hallucinations?
Honestly I can’t even imagine what that would be like to only be able to think in words. I just dunno what that’s like. Reading a book and not being able to instantly “see” the scene unfold in your head. I wonder how common this issue is?
Furthermore it makes me wonder again what the hell mental imagery even is. Where do thoughts and mental imagery exist? What is a thought?
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I think that a thought begins as a mental state of wonder, maybe. It’s a feeling to begin with. Plato said that all philosophy begins with wonder.
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