Thus I claim we don’t know whether people see dreams.
That’s a pretty bold claim just a few sentences after claiming to have aphantasia.
Some of my dreams have no visuals at all, just a vague awareness of the setting and plot points. Others are as vivid and detailed as waking experience (or even more, honestly), at least as far as vision is concerned. Dreams can fall anywhere on a spectrum between these extremes, and sometimes they can even be a mixture (e.g. a visual experience of the place and an awareness of characters in that place that don’t appear visually).
Yes, people do see dreams. I’m fairly certain I can tell the difference.
I guess there is a difference between whether all people see dreams or whether any person sees dreams. I don’t mean to claim that dreams do not happen but whether sight is involved for all people. I guess a person that has had a non-visual dream can be certain it is not the case that every dream has been seen.
I am imagining a questionare that has options like “A) I see my dreams in color B) I see my dreams in black and white” to have different results if a option like “C) I don’t see in my dreams” was present. The possible misdirection would be to not include C based on a guess that nobody reports it based preconception of what dreams are.
That’s a pretty bold claim just a few sentences after claiming to have aphantasia.
Some of my dreams have no visuals at all, just a vague awareness of the setting and plot points. Others are as vivid and detailed as waking experience (or even more, honestly), at least as far as vision is concerned. Dreams can fall anywhere on a spectrum between these extremes, and sometimes they can even be a mixture (e.g. a visual experience of the place and an awareness of characters in that place that don’t appear visually).
Yes, people do see dreams. I’m fairly certain I can tell the difference.
I guess there is a difference between whether all people see dreams or whether any person sees dreams. I don’t mean to claim that dreams do not happen but whether sight is involved for all people. I guess a person that has had a non-visual dream can be certain it is not the case that every dream has been seen.
I am imagining a questionare that has options like “A) I see my dreams in color B) I see my dreams in black and white” to have different results if a option like “C) I don’t see in my dreams” was present. The possible misdirection would be to not include C based on a guess that nobody reports it based preconception of what dreams are.