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Watching the flicker thing for a few moments made me think: is it possible that some sort of sensory stimuli could paralyze you? It would be fascinating if some crazy combination of stimuli could have sort of a “reset human” sort of effect. Given that we’re revolved organisms and not machines it’s hard to imagine any evolutionary purpose, but it’s fun to think about.
Watching the flicker thing for a few moments made me think: is it possible that some sort of sensory stimuli could paralyze you? It would be fascinating if some crazy combination of stimuli could have sort of a “reset human” sort of effect. Given that we’re revolved organisms and not machines it’s hard to imagine any evolutionary purpose, but it’s fun to think about.
Somewhat unrelated but has anyone here experience fever dreams where you are surrounded by something you can't quite comprehend and can't do anything but try to comprehend it? It's almost like a huge maze, grid, or some other pattern but painful to look at. The dream tends to be extremely unpleasant and usually returns after falling back asleep. I was trying to explain it to a friend the other day and didn't do a ver…
I think I have experienced something similar, where I have to find the right configuration for some pattern, sometimes grounded in like how my sheets and blanket wrap around my body in order to create or fix some dream machine. It's not a fully formed concept, but I'm trying to fix it and arrange the pattern in my mostly-sleeping state - it's always impossible and I have to recognize what I'm doing, fully wake myself…
When I recognize it happening, I can usually snap out of it.
Honest questions: Do people with Aphantasia dream vivid dreams with images? How about masturbation without visual input? Are you not capable of visually imagining something arousing, like a person you find very attractive etc? I don’t _think_ I suffer from it but would call the images in my head very clear or detailed or very accurate.
Somewhat unrelated but has anyone here experience fever dreams where you are surrounded by something you can't quite comprehend and can't do anything but try to comprehend it? It's almost like a huge maze, grid, or some other pattern but painful to look at. The dream tends to be extremely unpleasant and usually returns after falling back asleep. I was trying to explain it to a friend the other day and didn't do a ver…
Never did find any kind of label for the symptoms. I kept a journal of the episodes for a while. They seemed to come up monthly when I was around 16.
At the very least it's validating to encounter others who had had similar experiences.
Somewhat unrelated but has anyone here experience fever dreams where you are surrounded by something you can't quite comprehend and can't do anything but try to comprehend it? It's almost like a huge maze, grid, or some other pattern but painful to look at. The dream tends to be extremely unpleasant and usually returns after falling back asleep. I was trying to explain it to a friend the other day and didn't do a ver…
> No home was sweet without a Game Boy in 1990. That year, I stayed "for a week" with a friend in Tokyo, and Tetris enslaved my brain. At night, geometric shapes fell in the darkness as I lay on loaned tatami floor space. Days, I sat on a lavender suede sofa and played Tetris furiously. During rare jaunts from the house, I visually fit cars and trees and people together.
Somewhat unrelated but has anyone here experience fever dreams where you are surrounded by something you can't quite comprehend and can't do anything but try to comprehend it? It's almost like a huge maze, grid, or some other pattern but painful to look at. The dream tends to be extremely unpleasant and usually returns after falling back asleep. I was trying to explain it to a friend the other day and didn't do a ver…
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I think I have experienced something similar, where I have to find the right configuration for some pattern, sometimes grounded in like how my sheets and blanket wrap around my body in order to create or fix some dream machine. It's not a fully formed concept, but I'm trying to fix it and arrange the pattern in my mostly-sleeping state - it's always impossible and I have to recognize what I'm doing, fully wake myself…
Yes. I get this. It's kind of a problem some time. My brain gets trapped in a loop of trying to solve some puzzle or system of constraints, but none of it is based on anything. I couldn't even describe it. It's more like patterns of faux-logical systems. When I recognize it happening, I can usually snap out of it.
Somewhat unrelated but has anyone here experience fever dreams where you are surrounded by something you can't quite comprehend and can't do anything but try to comprehend it? It's almost like a huge maze, grid, or some other pattern but painful to look at. The dream tends to be extremely unpleasant and usually returns after falling back asleep. I was trying to explain it to a friend the other day and didn't do a ver…
I'm so glad I'm not alone in this. My fever dreams are distinctly different from regular dreams, but it is pretty impossible to explain. Sometimes my fever dreams involve innate objects that dwarf me in size, and I gradually seem to feel smaller. That statement doesn't quite catch it though. But yes, I get the fever dreams.
Honest questions: Do people with Aphantasia dream vivid dreams with images? How about masturbation without visual input? Are you not capable of visually imagining something arousing, like a person you find very attractive etc? I don’t _think_ I suffer from it but would call the images in my head very clear or detailed or very accurate.
I almost never dream. When I do dream it's fairly lifelike.
I can't visualize anything arousing. When I first learned (at 26!) that my friends can visualize any fantasy at will I was floored. I have zero internal imagery for anything sexual. Have no fantasies.
I can't picture anyone's face. Bodies are only experienced in person. If I can't see it with my eyes, it doesn't exist.