When fully awake, I have aphantasia: I cannot experience my mental imagery, even though I know it is there and I can use it for drawing and design. When I begin to fall asleep, it often becomes visible, but not from the front (the direction of attention)—it slides in "sideways".
I can imagine all these things but I cannot experience my imagination, unless I am dreaming. I also suspect that when I look at an object with my eyes, I have less visual experience than many other people.
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Normal people can experience their imagination outside dreams? I can't and never got the impression that anyone else can tbh.
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Most people I know can
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I trained myself when I was young but I stopped. Sometimes I have spontaneous lucid dreams but it is rare. I have greater control of the hypnagogic state while waking up, but need to be in a totally quiet place.
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sounds like you're saying that you can't hallucinate :)
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